Jamie Dimon issues rare CEO criticism of Trump’s immigration policy: ‘I don’t like what I’m seeing’

Jamie Dimon issues rare CEO criticism of Trump’s immigration policy: ‘I don’t like what I’m seeing’

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the 2025 IIF annual membership meeting in Washington, Oct. 16, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that he disagreed with President Donald Trump’s approach to immigration, offering a rare public rebuke by a U.S. corporate … Read more

Trump calls for Congress to enact 10% credit card interest rate cap; bank stocks rise

Trump calls for Congress to enact 10% credit card interest rate cap; bank stocks rise

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation to limit credit card rates to 10%, following his social media post this month ordering banks to voluntarily lower their rates. “I’m asking Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year, and this will help millions of Americans save for … Read more

Greenland is another headline that stocks can get past, investors say. What to do next

Greenland is another headline that stocks can get past, investors say. What to do next

Greenland is just the latest geopolitical headline that the stock market can get past, when all is said and done, investors say. Stocks tumbled Tuesday, after President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against those European countries opposing the sale of Greenland to the U.S. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 870 points, while the … Read more

Big earnings reports and worries around the interest rate outlook could sway markets next week

Big earnings reports and worries around the interest rate outlook could sway markets next week

Company earnings and what happens with the interest rate outlook will unlock what’s next for a broadening stock market. Stocks are headed for a down week following an uneven start to the fourth-quarter earnings season. Of the big banks that kick off the reporting period, the retail banking players — JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, … Read more

Kevin Hassett pivots to possible ‘Trump cards’ amid credit card battle with banks

Kevin Hassett pivots to possible ‘Trump cards’ amid credit card battle with banks

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Francis Chung | Bloomberg | Getty Images White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Friday that large U.S. banks could voluntarily provide credit cards to underserved Americans as … Read more

Morgan Stanley tops estimates driven by wealth management

Morgan Stanley tops estimates driven by wealth management

People walk past Morgan Stanley global headquarters in Manhattan on March 20, 2025 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images Morgan Stanley on Thursday reported fourth-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on the back of strong revenues from wealth management. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street analysts surveyed … Read more

Bank of America tops estimates on better-than-expected net interest income

Bank of America tops estimates on better-than-expected net interest income

Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, speaks with Economic Club of Washington Chair David Rubenstein at an event at the Ritz-Carlton on February 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Bank of America on Wednesday posted fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ expectations on gains from net interest income and … Read more

Trump’s credit card rate cap plan has unclear path, ‘devastating’ risks, bank insiders say

Trump’s credit card rate cap plan has unclear path, ‘devastating’ risks, bank insiders say

Bank executives were sent scrambling over the weekend after President Donald Trump declared late Friday that American credit card companies would be subject to a 10% cap on the interest rate they can charge customers. The move sent shares of large banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America down between 1% … Read more

Dow falls more than 200 points as DOJ Powell probe raises fear Trump trying to take control of the Fed: Live updates

Dow falls more than 200 points as DOJ Powell probe raises fear Trump trying to take control of the Fed: Live updates

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 15, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stocks fell Monday after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, an apparent escalation by President Donald Trump in his attempt to pressure the central … Read more

The classic 60/40 strategy makes sense for investors again

The classic 60/40 strategy makes sense for investors again

A classic investment strategy that has fallen out of favor is starting to stir some interest. The traditional 60/40 portfolio — a balanced fund that has a 60% allocation to stocks and 40% to bonds — has become less popular with retail investors after years of near-zero interest rates made fixed income less compelling. Investors … Read more