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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink believes the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto market is in a strong position following the unwinding of excessive leverage. The CEO of the world’s largest asset manager also expressed optimism about traditional financial markets, expecting technological transformation to provide ...
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>
Moby summary of BlackRock, Inc.'s Q2 2026 earnings call
📣 “I’m very optimistic on the outlook for global markets. We see great market fundamentals with higher corporate margins and earnings momentum catalyzed by new technology.” — BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink, speaking after his investment firm posted record second-quarter earnings.
BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) executives said the asset manager delivered record second-quarter results and its strongest first half on record, driven by broad-based client inflows, higher markets, acquisitions and continued demand for ETFs, private markets and technology offerings. Chief Financial Officer
Trade processor DTCC is launching a trial run with Wall Street firms to convert assets into digital tokens.
BlackRock’s private-debt funds business took in a net $6 billion of new client money in the second quarter. The unit managed $151 billion in assets as of June. Like some of its private-markets peers, the asset manager had imposed limits on how much money individual investors could pull from its largest retail private-credit fund during the last two quarters.
Investing.com -- BlackRock shares rose about 3% in premarket trading Wednesday after the asset manager reported second-quarter earnings that comfortably beat expectations, driven by record inflows and strong organic growth across its platform.
July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher as investors braced for a fresh wave of corporate earnings as well as producer inflation data due later Wednesday, while PayPal shares surged
Today Earnings: Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, PNC Financial Services, Conagra, Cintas, United Airlines, Bank of New York Mellon, Elevance Health, J.B. Hunt, ASML Economic data: Producer-price index data for June, Empire State manufacturing survey, EIA weekly petroleum status report, Fed beige book.
Investors are gearing up today for the start of a busy bank earnings season. They’ll also be closely watching the latest inflation data and appearances on Capitol Hill over two days by new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh.
July 13 (Reuters) - India's largest asset manager, SBI Funds Management, sold shares worth 26.63 billion rupees ($278.50 million) to anchor investors including the sovereign wealth funds of Singapore
📣 “Investors are thinking about rebalancing portfolios after a phenomenal run...You rebalance based on the stocks that are up by triple digits year-to-date.” —Helen Jewell, BlackRock CIO for fundamental equities, on today's selloff in memory-chip stocks.
> $50 billion How much Meta Platforms expects its massive data center in Northeast Louisiana to cost—nearly double the original $27 billion estimate—after supersizing the project to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity.
The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion.
Big banks kick off earnings season this week, which will also bring reports from GE Aerospace, Netflix, and Taiwan Semi. In economic news, we’ll get the consumer and producer price indexes, and retail sales data.
(Bloomberg) -- The world's most-envied retirement plan has another high-profile booster: President Donald Trump.Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71OpenAI Engineer's 'LOL' Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Launches Fresh Iran Strikes as Tehran Declares Hormuz ClosedGates Heir's Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn't DriveCanada Gives Share of Bridge Profits to US to Get Trump Go-AheadRiding high off public enthusiasm for the Trump Accounts f
(Bloomberg) -- The world’s most-envied retirement plan has another high-profile booster: President Donald Trump.Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71OpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Launches Fresh Iran Strikes as Tehran Declares Hormuz ClosedGates Heir’s Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn’t DriveCanada Gives Share of Bridge Profits to US to Get Trump Go-AheadRiding high off public enthusiasm for the Trump Accounts f
Rising inflation, Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, and excess leverage continue to draw the cryptocurrency’s price down.
It is estimated that the SpaceX IPO created more than 4,000 millionaires. SpaceX, which joined the Nasdaq-100 index on Tuesday, isn’t likely to be the only mega IPO this year. BlackRock joins the QQQ fray.
(Bloomberg) -- Commitments for AI spending should sustain the investment theme around the technology for two to three years, even as tech giants gradually turn cash-flow negative and start raising debt to fund their buildouts, according to BlackRock Inc.’s Helen Jewell. Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameTrump Vents Anger With Iran and Warns Ceasefire May Be ‘Over’Nvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsUS Military
It was only a matter of time. Eventually someone would want a piece of $488 billion-in-assets Invesco QQQ Trust ETF.
(Bloomberg) -- Argentina is set to make a major payment on its dollar bonds this week, pulling off a feat few investors thought possible while the country refuses to tap global debt markets. Most Read from BloombergTrump Says US Ceasefire With Iran Is ‘Over’ After StrikesGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales in New Test of TruceChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7
AI chip startup SambaNova said on Wednesday it has raised $1 billion in a late-stage funding round led by General Atlantic at an $11 billion post-money valuation. The company makes custom chips, hardware systems and cloud services tailored for inference - the process by which models respond to user queries. • The Series F round included significant investment from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates and Capital Group.
(Bloomberg) -- Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors’ conviction in rising demand for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales, in New Test of TruceChina Sentences Officia
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