
Trump on possible Venezuela departure from OPEC: 'It's up to them'
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it's up to Venezuela to decide whether it should leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it's up to Venezuela to decide whether it should leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Yield on 10-year Treasury touches its highest level of Trump 2.0 as oil climbs back about $90 a barrel

Markets flipped to pricing in the chance of a rate hike following Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's speech Friday at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. However, some participants see less of a chance with few obvious data points indicating a need for tighter monetary policy.

Powell is no longer Fed chairman, but he still has a vote on whether to raise interest rates.

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said on Monday that 600,000 seniors have signed up to receive GLP-1 weight loss medications in the first two months of a new federal program created to expand access to the highly sought-after treatments.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Monday told G20 finance leaders that the world is seeing a global investment surge that is helping to power growth, reversing past savings gluts that kept capital in low-yielding instruments amid a shortage of investment opportunities.

On Friday, the S&P 500's percentage of stocks above their 50-DMA fell to 53.7%, the lowest reading for the index since 6/17. Real Estate and Utilities are two of the most extreme examples of the recent deterioration.

The risk-reward of buying protection in the equity market looks compelling.

Equal-weighted strategies are mostly outperforming those that use traditional market-cap weightings.

September is historically the market's weakest month. Joe Tigay breaks down the signals he's tracking - low VIX, inflation shocks, overspending in AI - and the stocks he's watching on pullbacks including names like Alphabet and Amazon.

The IA40 list from Madrona is back, spotlighting the private companies shaping the next phase of AI. Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona, explains how the list is assembled, why OpenAI, Anthropic and Databricks dominate AI fundraising, and how a successful Anthropic IPO could open the door for a new wave of public offerings in 2027.

Radiant has won a $750 million US Army contract to provide 15 portable nuclear microreactors under the Janus program. President and COO Tori Shivanandan discusses the technology behind the reactors, the military's push for resilient energy, and what Radiant needs to do next to scale production.

China's export overcapacity and weak domestic demand are fueling global trade imbalances, prompting G20 calls for rebalancing and EU threats of action. Rising trade deficits, especially in the EU, risk suppressing domestic industries and wages, potentially leading to import substitution policies and increased market turbulence.

ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher safety rules after the EU added it Monday to a list of digital services subject to greater legal scrutiny in Europe, a first for an AI chatbot.

Timna Tanners, an analyst for Wells Fargo & Co., says Canada's retaliatory steel tariffs are mostly ``for show'' because the trade war with the US already has made American imports too costly. She speaks with Dani Burger and Sally Bakewell on Bloomberg's ``Open Interest.