Rising global interest rates will diminish the attractiveness of bonds, but emerging markets’ debt can still be a strong play for investors in the current climate, an analyst told CNBC Tuesday. Michael Kushma, chief investment officer of global fixed income at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, told CNBC’s “Street Signs” that Brazil, Columbia, Indonesia and Argentina are among the attractive emerging markets. “Better global economic activity should be beneficial to emerging markets and potent

Last month, the federal government indicted four people, including two Russian intelligence officials, in that crime. Yahoo declined to comment on Ms. Mayer’s compensation, apart from the information included in its legal filings. Most of Ms. Mayer’s payout is based on the 208 percent increase in Yahoo’s stock price since she left Google for Yahoo in 2012. Although Yahoo’s core businesses of email, news and search continued to tread water under Ms. Mayer’s leadership, long-held investments in Al

As a result, the exits strengthened the perception that the city state is losing its appeal as a listing destination. Loh Boon Chye, chief executive of SGX, said the situation is less severe if one compares the total funds raised versus the value of companies that left. Last year, the exchange raised 13.2 billion Singapore dollars ($9.5 billion) through IPOs, reverse takeovers, secondary listings, rights issues and placements; while it lost 13.4 billion Singapore dollars ($9.6 billion) from deli

The next group of employees who could lose their jobs are Wells Fargo’s board of directors, who face re-election on Tuesday at the bank’s annual shareholder meeting. More from the New York Times:At Wells Fargo, Crushing Pressure and Lax Oversight Produced a ScandalMiddle Class Contracted in U.S. Over 2 Decades, Study FindsUber’s C.E.O. He has signaled that he intends to back the incumbent board, and his support could ultimately carry more weight than that of investors like pension funds, which t

The port call by the USS Michigan came as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steams for Korean waters and as the top nuclear envoys from South Korea, Japan, and the United States met in Tokyo to discuss the North’s refusal to give up its nuclear program. Fears have risen in recent weeks that North Korea could soon conduct another nuclear test or long-range missile launch in defiance of United Nations sanctions. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that the North appeared to have deployed

Our live blog is tracking reaction as President Donald Trump plans to hold a rare briefing at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate to discuss North Korea. We’ll bring you the latest analysis below.

European bourses opened higher Tuesday morning after hitting multi-year highs on the back of the outcome of the French election. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.03 percent higher with most sectors trading on positive ground. The victory of the centrist Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French election sent French stocks to a nine-year high, which drove other European stocks higher. In the corporate world, investors will be waiting for new earnings reports from Essilor, Covestro, Whitbre

Voice control seems to be pretty consistent across the types of experiences we’re seeing, including Amazon Alexa and Google Home. But you’re also starting to see video providers do things with voice control remote control. We believe this is the next frontier of how consumers are going to experience entertainment,” says Chapman. “Taking that tech a step further is where companies can use AI to personalize entertainment advisors, which really could redefine the video experience,” says Chapman. Bu

Would-be thieves will soon have one less avenue to use to snare your Social Security number. Medicare has been the odd holdout among health insurance companies in using Social Security numbers as the basis for member IDs — and printing those identifiers right on the insurance card. That ends next year. Under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, the agency is required to remove Social Security numbers from all Medicare cards by April 2019. Earlier this year, the Centers for M

An entrepreneur dreams of building a successful company. Serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has founded eight businesses, including two garnering valuations north of $1 billion. Varsavsky, who currently teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia University, credits a specific management practice for moving from one venture to the next. That’s a skill the Argentine entrepreneur learned from his first venture in 1985, a New York real estate development company he founded with a personal investment of

If you’re a manager who wants to get ahead at work, a simple change to how you communicate could be all you need. “You have a weapon at your disposal, which you can unleash right now to take your career to the next level,” says Suzy Welch, best-selling management author and CNBC contributor. “I’m talking about taking the B.S. and the jargon out of your language,” Welch says. As simple as it sounds, most bosses lack this quality, she says, and it’s probably holding them back.

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Alcoa Corp. on Monday reported first-quarter earnings per share of 63 cents, ex-items, compared to 53 cents per share, which analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected. The company’s revenue for the period missed expectations of $2.96 billion, however, registering at $2.66 billion. Alcoa added that it expects aluminum demand to grow 4.5 percent to 5 percent over last year, although it projects a modest global aluminum surplus of 300,000 metric tons to 700,000 metric tons. Shares of Alcoa ro

Alphabet’s effort to catch Amazon’s cloud is taking center stage at one of the media industry’s biggest conferences of the year. Tariq Shaukat, a president in Google’s cloud division, is among the keynote speakers at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas on Monday. As in every industry it’s attacking, GCP faces a tall task with the biggest media companies. Within media in particular, Google is touting a product called Zync that enables high-speed rendering of projects that a

“As gas prices drop, that creates an undertow for the entire crude oil market,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service. Part of the problem is a tough comparison with extraordinarily low gasoline prices last year. The national average gasoline price on Monday was nearly 28 cents above last year’s level, according to GasBuddy.com. “I’m in the camp that says last year was a little bit of the anomaly,” Kloza said. “Gas was so cheap that we drove a little bit

President Donald Trump famously promised Americans so much winning that they’d be sick of it. This strategy should unnerve conservatives; almost any other Republican president drawn from last year’s primary field would be scoring more wins for their cause right now than Trump has. Nearly 100 days into his term, Trump has delivered few major victories, either for the country or for his own supporters. His wins, such as they are, would be layups for any Republican president working with a full con

With François Fillon (the GOP-equivalent candidate) now defeated, American conservatives might wonder who to support. Put simply, Macron is the candidate of economic opportunity; Le Pen is the candidate of special interests. American conservatives should be alarmed by that sentiment. The glory of American patriotism is its combination of shared opportunity and personal responsibility. Indeed, American Muslims’ patriotism is proof that Le Pen is wrong.

A big short squeeze coming in bonds later in the year: Belski 13 Hours Ago | 03:47With the U.S. stock market being so momentum-driven right now, investors need to make sure they look at the longer-term picture, expert Brian Belski told CNBC on Monday. And that means buying favorite stocks on price breaks and taking a little off the table when the market goes up, he explained. However, Belski sees future action in the bond market that will be “fantastic” for equity investors. “There’s a big short

Sanofi on Monday sued Mylan, accusing the pharmaceutical company of engaging in illegal conduct to squelch competition to its EpiPen allergy treatment, which has been at the center of a public debate over drug prices. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Trenton, N.J., Sanofi said Mylan caused it to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in sales by erecting barriers to U.S. consumers’ access to and use of a rival product, Auvi-Q. In a statement, Sanofi sought damages, which under U.S. antitrust

As young men drift to the extremes, women are taking over the middle. The report states that “young women have made considerable economic gains … The share of young women who earned $60,000 or more grew from about two percent to 13 percent — a minority, but still a sizable change.” Though in part because the men at the top still make so much more, young women’s median incomes remain “$11,000 lower than the income of young men.” Women of all ages still hold many fewer of the most highly paid jo