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Visitors watch a hologram at the stand of Dell Technologies Inc., at the MWC (Mobile World Congress), the world’s biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 5, 2025. Josep Lago | AFP | Getty ImagesShares of Dell Technologies climbed 5% Tuesday after the company increased its long-term revenue and profit growth expectations in a meeting with analysts.The computer maker said it now expects annual revenue to expand between 7% and 9%, an increase from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%.For the full year, it now expects diluted earnings per share to grow at least 15%, compared with its previous…
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a oversight hearing of Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersAttorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday stonewalled a question at a Senate Judiciary Committee about who ordered FBI agents to flag any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump during a review this year of investigative files about the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.Sen. Dick Durbin, in a letter in July, mentioned that purported order to FBI agents as he asked the Justice Department about past promises to release the Epstein files and a subsequent…
People enter the Lianyungang Railway Station in Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Oct. 7, 2025. As the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is drawing to a close, return travel flows increase across the country. (Photo by Geng Yuhe/Xinhua)Passengers are pictured at the waiting hall of Tianjin West Railway Station in Tianjin, north China, Oct. 7, 2025. As the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is drawing to a close, return travel flows increase across the country. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)Passengers wait to board a train at Luoyang Longmen Railway Station in Luoyang, central China’s Henan Province, Oct. 7, 2025. As the…
ISLAMABAD: In what appeared to be a high-level intervention to defuse political tensions between the Sindh and Punjab governments, President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday summoned Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Karachi for urgent consultations, Express News reported. The move came as a war of words between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which governs Punjab, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which rules Sindh, escalated further – spilling over into both houses of parliament. Both the Senate and National Assembly sessions on Monday felt the heat of the ongoing row over the distribution of aid among flood victims, as…
Tesla announced a new version of its full self-driving supervised technology Tuesday morning, but investors are looking for something bigger.Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s company shared a teaser clip featuring a logo-emblazoned, spinning component that could be anything from a wheel cover to a fan or turbine. The clip ended with the numbers “10/7,” indicating Tuesday’s date for the reveal.Tesla posted a second clip to X on Sunday showing the outline of a vehicle’s headlights in the dark.Shares climbed 5% Monday as the buzz grew online over what the announcement would be.The big reveal could be the long-awaited lower-cost model, or…
A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds and venture capital. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.At Ares Management’s analyst day last month, the alternative asset manager quietly bumped up its three-year fundraising targets by 25%.CEO Michael Arougheti told CNBC the change was due to better-than-expected momentum among individual, wealthy investors.A recent survey by State Street found that the “retail revolution” will drive more than half of the private market flows in the next few years, a seismic shift from traditional…
The Qualcomm Incorporated logo is being displayed at their pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesQualcomm wants to get closer to robot makers.The company said Tuesday that it’s acquiring Arduino, an electronics maker whose inexpensive programmable circuit boards and computers are common in hardware startups and robotics labs for prototyping.Qualcomm didn’t announce a price for the transaction, but said the Italy-based company would become an independent subsidiary.The deal gives Qualcomm direct access to the tinkerers, hobbyists and companies at the lowest levels of the robotics industry. Arduino…
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan grapples with a widening trade deficit, rising unemployment, and an exodus of multinational firms, experts are urging the government to adopt a more aggressive protectionist approach – similar to US President Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy – to safeguard domestic manufacturing. Trump’s economic policy, which relied heavily on import tariffs and punitive measures against American companies outsourcing production, was cited by analysts Shahbaz Rana and Kamran Yousaf in Express News show “The Review” as a model worth emulating. “We want to build, create and grow more products in our country using American labour, American goods and American…
A sold sign is posted in front of a home for sale on Aug. 27, 2025 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from…
* According to Gaza-based authorities, over 90 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed — the vast majority of them being civilians, women and children — and 169,000 more wounded.* According to official Israeli figures, thousands of Israelis have been killed since the conflict between Hamas and Israel began. Dozens of hostages taken by Hamas during its initial assault remain in captivity, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s early promise to bring every one of them home.* “The people of Gaza are not seeking a military or political victory,” said Ismail…