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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. As if this week wasn’t newsworthy enough, the February jobs report will be released in just a few minutes.Stock futures fell this morning following a losing day.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Ups and downsTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the opening bell rings on March 5, 2026 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesInvestors have been on a roller coaster ride this week as…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are plummeting Friday after sniffing out the worst-case scenario for financial markets: a combination of a weak economy and high inflation.The S&P 500 fell 1.6% following the report. U.S. employers cut more jobs last month surpassed the value they created, after oil prices soared to their highest in nearly two years. iran war. It’s a combination that investors hate because no one in the world has better tools to deal with economic downturn and high inflation at the same time.As of 10:10 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 823 points, or…
Yessica Arambulo traveled to Mexico for vacation in April 2017. It was a festival in the Mexican family town of La Moncada, Guanajuato state, in the center of Mexico. She never expected that this short visit would change her life and lead to finding love. At the time, Arambulo was 20 years old and still studying in Chicago, but her excitement to experience firsthand everything her family had told her about the festival motivated her to make the trip. That’s when she met Ramon Vega, an auto mechanic. “We met in the garden,” Arambulo recalled. “There was kind of chemistry…
Will it be the same again from Wolves? Wolves vs. Liverpool, Friday, 8pm kick-off Rob Edwards’ side celebrated Wolves’ comeback by taking on the Premier League champions, and now they have the chance to beat Liverpool again in the FA Cup rematch just four days later. In isolation, Wolves’ performance in Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Liverpool gave the Molineux crowd something to cheer about, but it was part of a wider run of form leading to suggestions that the once surely doomed Old Gold could pull off the miracle of remaining in the Premier League. Use Chrome Browser for a…
Supporters of the U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran argue that weakening Tehran by reducing its missile capabilities, disabling its navy, and reducing its ability to project power through regional allies will make the Middle East safer. However, this strategy is based on the premise that a weaker Iran will make the region more stable. In reality, destabilizing one of the largest and most strategically important countries in the Middle East could unleash far more dangerous forces than the current situation.According to a briefing provided to Congressional staff in Washington, D.C., there was no information to suggest that Iran…
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said Friday that the weak February jobs report makes the policy-making environment even more difficult.In an interview with CNBC, Daly declined to state his position on interest rates, but said future decisions would be complicated by a weakening labor market and inflation still above the central bank’s 2% target.”This job market report caught my attention,” she said in an interview on “Squawk Box.” “I don’t think you can read this report, but I also don’t think you should use more than one month’s worth of data.”On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that…
Pedestrians in Times Square in the snow during a winter storm on Sunday, February 22, 2026 in New York, USA.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHistoric winter storms and subsequent store closures weighed on of the gap The retailer announced Thursday that its holiday quarter performance was weak, contributing to weaker-than-expected results for its brand portfolio. As cold weather, snow and ice hit much of the U.S. in January, about 800 stores temporarily closed at the peak of the storm, missing Old Navy’s comparable sales and causing mixed results across the company, the company said. “Old Navy and all of our…
Samsung’s exhibition stand features the prominent slogan “A new era of mobile agent AI” by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics.Joanne Crosnull Photo | Getty ImagesSamsung’s next smart glasses will include a camera and connect to smartphones, an executive told CNBC. That’s because the tech giant is preparing to make its first foray into the product category.Jay Kim, Samsung’s executive vice president of mobile business, revealed details about the smart glasses for the first time on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.Kim told CNBC that the smart glasses will have a built-in camera “at eye…
President Donald Trump answers questions from the media during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House on March 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Friday that there is no deal to end the U.S. war against Iran without “unconditional surrender” by Iran.“Then, and after a great and acceptable leader is elected, we and our many wonderful and courageous allies and partners will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction and make it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before,” President…
Tottenham’s hopes of remaining in the Premier League are looking more and more hopeless by the week. They are without a domestic win in 2026 and the chance of relegation is now 16.1 per cent, as manager Igor Tudor’s disastrous defeat has left them just one point above the relegation zone.Spurs’ recent 3-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace was their fifth in a row and third under Tudor, who replaced Thomas Frank 22 days ago and was charged with turning around a poor season. Tudor will be the seventh head coach in less than seven years. He watched his team…