timef 03/20/2025
- European leaders push for even more defense spending — despite plans for $867 billion 'ReArm' package cnbc.com2025-03-20 22:58:49
"I think this is only the start," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda told CNBC's Silvia Amaro on the EU's plans to boost defense spending.
- EU delays implementing first retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods to middle of April cnbc.com2025-03-20 21:24:16
"The change represents a slight adjustment to the timeline and does not diminish the impact of our response," an EU spokesperson told CNBC.
- Turkey faces investor flight and political freefall after opposition leader's arrest cnbc.com2025-03-20 21:07:03
Concern over stability and economic security in Turkey could damage financial inflows at a time when investor confidence in the country is already shaky.
- Bank of England holds interest rates, warns global trade uncertainty has intensified cnbc.com2025-03-20 20:12:36
The Bank of England on Thursday announced its latest interest rate decision, warning of increased global uncertainty.
- Op Ed: India needs to urgently decarbonize its power sector. Here's how it can succeed cnbc.com2025-03-20 19:53:20
To truly decarbonize its energy sector, India needs to act on three fronts — and fast.
- Huawei's $1,000 foldable will run self-developed HarmonyOS 5 as it pushes Apple, Google alternative cnbc.com2025-03-20 19:13:43
The Pura X is the first to run HarmonyOS 5, the latest version of Huawei's own operating system.
- World's largest sovereign wealth fund invests $740 million in London's Covent Garden cnbc.com2025-03-20 18:33:58
Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund on Thursday said that it struck a deal to buy a quarter of London's iconic Covent Garden.
- Swiss National Bank makes quarter-point interest rate cut, cites 'low inflationary pressure' cnbc.com2025-03-20 16:42:16
Switzerland's central bank on Thursday announced its latest interest rate decision.
- CNBC's Inside India newsletter: Elon Musk's Starlink gets access to India, but its success rests on two billionaires cnbc.com2025-03-20 15:37:29
Elon Musk's Starlink is entering the Indian market. Analysts see it as a breakthrough for a U.S. firm, but navigating the Indian market will still prove tough.
- CNBC Daily Open: Fed’s dot plot calms some market jitters cnbc.com2025-03-20 15:30:01
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady, as widely expected, and kept its projection of two rate cuts this year. Markets rallied in relief.
- This island is the happiest place in Asia, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report cnbc.com2025-03-20 14:42:01
According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, Taiwan is the happiest place in Asia, followed by Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan.
- Greenpeace ordered to pay more than $660 million over Dakota Access Pipeline protests cnbc.com2025-03-20 12:19:54
A jury on Wednesday ordered environmental campaign group Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages to Texas-based Energy Transfer.
- CEO of ThyssenKrupp's warship division says attainable market could triple as defense spending surges cnbc.com2025-03-20 11:32:48
That comes on the back of the German parliament voting in favor of a major fiscal package, which includes changes to debt policies for higher defense spending.
- Foreign visitors have been driving Japan’s economy. A stronger yen could reverse that trend cnbc.com2025-03-20 10:50:46
Foreign tourists have had an outzised impact on Japan's economic growth. However, their influence could start to wane as the yen strengthens, analysts said.
- Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row cnbc.com2025-03-20 09:16:36
For the eighth year in a row, Finland ranked in the top spot on the World's Happiness Report's annual ranking of the happiest countries in the world.
- China's central bank follows U.S. Fed in keeping rates steady as tariff threats pressure yuan cnbc.com2025-03-20 09:02:49
Chinese top officials have pledged to ramp up monetary easing measures, including interest rate cuts "at appropriate times."
- CNBC Daily Open: For nervous investors, Fed’s dot plot comes as a relief cnbc.com2025-03-20 08:38:04
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady, as widely expected, and kept its projection of two rate cuts this year. Markets rallied in relief.
- SoftBank to acquire chip designer Ampere in $6.5 billion deal cnbc.com2025-03-20 07:53:53
SoftBank Group said Wednesday that it will acquire Ampere Computing, a startup that designed an Arm-based server chip, for $6.5 billion.
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang on why DeepSeek's new model will need '100 times more computing' cnbc.com2025-03-20 07:27:20
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with CNBC's Jim Cramer about DeepSeek's new AI model.
- People are selling Singapore Airlines miles online. Here's what the airline says about that cnbc.com2025-03-20 06:31:30
Buying and selling airline miles isn't illegal, but it often violates the terms of frequent flyer programs like KrisFlyer, Singapore Airlines' loyalty program.
- 'Transitory' is back as the Fed doesn't expect tariffs to have long-lasting inflation impacts cnbc.com2025-03-20 05:28:37
Fed officials see inflation moving up this year more rapidly than previously expected, but they also expect the trend to be short-lived.
- DOGE doxx site maps 'Musk World' as Trump AG threatens Tesla vandals with federal charges cnbc.com2025-03-20 05:24:25
Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent hundreds of millions to help President Donald Trump win a second term. His electric vehicle maker is paying a price for that.
- Stagflation? Fed sees higher inflation and an economy growing by less than 2% this year cnbc.com2025-03-20 02:28:47
The rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee downgraded its collective outlook for economic growth to 1.7%, down from the last projection of 2.1% in December.
- Fed holds interest rates steady, still sees two cuts coming this year cnbc.com2025-03-20 02:14:39
The Federal Reserve in a closely watched decision Wednesday held the line on benchmark interest rates though still indicated that reductions are likely later in the year.
- FTC commissioner fired by Trump says her ouster should concern markets cnbc.com2025-03-20 02:06:25
Trump has worked to overhaul the government by pushing out federal officials and drastically downsizing agencies through the Elon Musk-led DOGE.
- Microsoft announces new HR executive, company veteran Amy Coleman cnbc.com2025-03-20 00:21:21
Microsoft's incoming chief people officer, Amy Coleman, led the development of Microsoft's human resources response to Covid and its hybrid work approach.
