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Ron DeSantis Blames Woke Culture For Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Reminds Him Of Financial Crisis And Bernie Madoff
Sunday, March 12, 2023 - 4:55pm | 846The collapse of SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) has dominated headlines over the weekend, with many financial experts, venture capitalists and economists weighing in. Even a potential presidential candidate shared his thoughts on the bank and what could happen next. What Happened:...
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Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Teams With Private Sector To Fight Zika
Saturday, June 11, 2016 - 3:38pm | 344Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered with the private sector to fight Zika amid the World Health Organization (WHO) warnings that people living in Zika-affected nations to delay pregnancy due to the virus' potential impact on children, according to a report on Fox Business Network. "I...
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W.P. Carey's Latest Acquisition Located In Booming Legacy Business Park
Monday, May 4, 2015 - 2:34pm | 921Net-lease REIT stalwart W.P. Carey Inc (NYSE: WPC) carefully underwrites each build-to-suit and sale-leaseback deal, but in this case, the neighborhood analysis must have been easier than most. On April 30, W.P. Carey announced that it had acquired a 166,000 square foot office facility leased to $...
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Blackstone CEO Schwarzman Talks Global Real Estate, Mega-Deals & More
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 10:49am | 874On April 28, Fox Business journalist Maria Bartiromo sat down with Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) Chairman and CEO Steve Schwarzman, to probe how the recent $23 billion real estate asset purchase from General Electric Company (NYSE: GE)'s GE Capital came to fruition. Schwarzman had a simple...
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Twitter Is a 'Dangerous Tool' For CEOs - And Everyone Else
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 10:53am | 833CEOs say the darndest things. Mike Jeffries, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), has repeatedly insulted consumers by saying that he only wants certain kinds of people (the "good-looking" ones) to shop at his store. Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) founder and former CEO Chip Wilson got in...
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Bartiromo Leaving CNBC for Fox Business Network
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 3:56pm | 298Maria Bartiromo, the first journalist to report business live from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, is calling it quits with CNBC. Bartiromo, or “Money Honey” as she came to be known, has been with CNBC since 1993. She has reportedly been in talks with CNN, but has selected Fox...
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Benzinga Mid-Day Market Update
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 1:40pm | 612Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.92 percent to 13,547.31 while the NASDAQ rose 1.08 percent to 3,097.40. The S&P also rose, increasing 0.97 percent to 1,454.15. As a heads up for this week, pharmaceutical stocks are set to be even more volatile than normal leading up to an...
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Stock Spotlight: A Financial Growth Name
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 6:23am | 557The iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (NYSE: IWM) is up 4.5 percent in the past month, but if September lives up to historical billing as a sour month for equities, it would not be surprising to see traders hammer ETFs such as IWM and select small-cap names. There is a bright side to this scenario....
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UBS Will Sue Nasdaq To Recover Losses From Facebook Deal-CNBC
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 4:16pm | 69CNBC's Maria Bartiromo reports that UBS meant to buy only 10 million Facebook (NYSE: FB) shares, but it ended up buying 40 million shares of Facebook. UBS tried to dispose of Facebook shares responsibility, and not dump the unwanted shares immediately. The UBS team is saying that Nasdaq is...
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Meredith Whitney More Bullish On U.S.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 10:00am | 976Maria Bartiromo of CNBC is at the Delivering Alpha conference and she is speaking with Blackrock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink, Meredith Whitney, Jim Leech, and Pierre Lagrange. Meredith Whitney said that she is more bullish on U.S. then other markets, for the fact that the U.S has "ermrging markets...
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What Forces are Moving the Dollar?
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 3:24pm | 656In the past year, the U.S. dollar has declined against virtually every currency and commodity. Will the dollar continue to decline, or is the dollar's recent rally the start of a trend? The U.S. dollar index was over $88 in June 2010. The index currently has a value just over $75 and reached its...
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Prince Alawaleed: Citigroup Is Strong And Other Thoughts (C)
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 4:29pm | 381Prince Alawaleed is on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo discussing the non event of the Day of Rage today in Saudi Arabia. Alawaleed said that in the morning he prayed with king, and after prayer, he went down to where the protests were supposed to happen, and no one were there. He said said the "Day of...
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Barton Biggs: "Markets Have Discounted $110 Oil"
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 5:22pm | 188Hedge fund manager Barton Biggs appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo on Friday. Biggs told her that he thinks the market has already discounted $110 oil and that the market can grind higher from here. He did note, however, that there are a lot of things that worry him, in particular...
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Prince Alaweed Might Buy GM
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 5:22pm | 89Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was on CNBC earlier with Maria Bartiromo, and he told her that he may invest in General Motors Co., prior to the car company's IPO. The Prince said his firm will be looking “very seriously” at the company, and would approach GM's banks and the company...
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Money Never Sleeps: Will Greed Always Prevail??
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:29pm | 433It has been more than 20 years since the words "Greed is good" has been used on the big screen yet those three words still echo across Wall Street in light of the recent financial meltdown. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was released at many theaters last night at 12AM. I was ambitious enough...