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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. I’m CJ, filling in for Alex this morning. You might know me from my coverage of technology stocks on and off since 2024. My co-workers know me as the news associate that can fold a serious origami crane. Speaking of things that fly, wait until you hear where shares of Dell Technologies are headed this morning after an AI-fueled earnings beat.Stock futures are higher before the bell. All three major averages are coming off a winning session and on pace for a positive week.Here are five…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 27, 2026. Evan Vucci | Reuters A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from setting up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of what Trump has called government “weaponization.”The order by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia blocks the Trump administration from “taking any further action” to set up or operate the fund while the judge hears additional legal arguments. The order will remain in effect at least until June 12.The Justice Department announced the…
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Outcomes Only six of the 54 hospitalized patients had an underlying medical condition that may have put them at higher risk. None of the 54 hospitalized patients were immunocompromised. Of the 54 hospitalized, 47 (87 percent) developed a complication of measles, including 39 (72 percent) who developed pneumonia, 25 (46 percent) had dehydration, and 21 (39 percent) developed diarrhea. Seventeen (31.5 percent) patients developed co-infections with other pathogens, a known risk with measles, and 28 (52 percent) were treated with antibiotics. Thirty-eight (70.4 percent) patients required supplemental oxygen to breathe. Thirty-seven (68.5 percent) experienced hypoxia, which is insufficient oxygen levels…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes questions during a press briefing at the Pentagon on May 5, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesThe U.S. aims to sustain equilibrium in the Asia-Pacific region and is working toward a situation where its allies are more capable, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said, while also warning China not to disrupt the status quo.”The bedrock of partnership is alignment on national interests,” Hegseth said in remarks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday. The U.S. will take a “strong, quiet, clear” approach to alliances, he said.He praised countries…
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Ives’ comments come as part of a wider prediction for the Nasdaq to top 30,000 points by 2027, reiterating his call from earlier interviews with CNBC. Source link
Dividend stocks may help boost investor returns over time, and Morgan Stanley thinks a number of companies are in a position to begin paying them. In fact, those that start issuing dividends have the potential to earn “outsized returns,” strategist Todd Castagno said in a note Wednesday. The bank found that names who initiate a regular, quarterly dividend outperformed the market, on average, by 650 basis points in the six months following the announcement. They outperform by 1,000 basis points in the 12-month post-announcement period, Castagno wrote. One basis point is equal to 0.01%. That is in addition to the…
What level of long-term growth is priced in for payments companies? Source link
Grants meet the culture war The document makes clear what sorts of things might be considered administration priorities and national interest—and they’re largely a war on woke. For example, the Trump administration canceled PEPFAR, a program meant to limit the spread of HIV in Africa; it’s a step that is estimated to lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. But to the OMB, that’s a good thing, because the alternative was woke: “Far-left activists hijacked the critical work done by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was established to respond to the AIDS crisis in Africa.…