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Ted Pick, CEO of Morgan Stanley speaks on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23, 2025.Gerry Miller | CNBCMorgan Stanley reported first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Wednesday.  Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG were expecting: Earnings: $3.43 a share, vs. expected $3 Revenue: $20.58 billion, vs. expected $19.72 billion Morgan Stanley is expected to benefit from robust investment banking and trading revenue in the quarter, as rivals JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have shown in their reports this week. Stocks were whipsawed in the…

For novel products like these, education matters. Wildtype co-founders Justin Kolbeck and Aryé Elfenbein invited chefs to their headquarters in San Francisco and then went to the restaurants during early days of service, providing FAQ sheets that informed how chefs label the product on menus. For Kolbeck and Elfenbein, restaurants were the ideal space to start a dialogue.At Robin, every guest is asked if they’d like to try cultivated salmon during their omakase meal. While some diners explicitly request Wildtype salmon in advance, about 50% opt in after learning what it is. The overarching reaction is positive, with curious diners…

Clashing press tours can provide a bit of a conundrum for celebrities—but not, it seems, for Anne Hathaway.What happens to method dressing and personal style identity across never-ending red carpets? Not to mention, all the archive pulls and admin for the celebrity stylist when juggling a slew of press days, premieres, and photo calls. Anne Hathaway has joined the likes of Zendaya and Jacob Elordi in promoting multiple projects at once this year, with the forthcoming Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mother Mary.Hathaway and her stylist Erin Walsh have taken a focused approach, making sure to hit all the pillars…

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch visits the Well-Safe Protector Oil Rig at Aberdeen’s South Harbour, on March 30, 2026 in Aberdeen, Scotland.Paul Reid | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Britain’s energy policy, deriding the ruling center-left Labour government’s decision to ban licenses for new oil and gas fields in the North Sea.”Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World. Tragic!!!” Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post.”Aberdeen should be booming. Norway sells its North…

Has writer and filmmaker Lena Dunham made mistakes over the course of her life and career? Sure—and she gets into plenty of them in new memoir, Famesick (out today from Random House), as she examines the realities of living with two chronic and often misunderstood conditions: illness and fame.You should absolutely read the memoir for yourself, but as a little amuse-bouche, here are the nine biggest things I took away from Dunham’s new book.Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha and Dunham’s Hannah Horvath spiritually inhabit the same multiverseNot only did Dunham and Gerwig run in the same downtown New York circles as…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 13, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stocks opened in mixed territory on Wednesday as traders assess the trajectory of the U.S.-Iran war and the prospect of renewed peace talks. Shortly after the opening bell, the pan-European Stoxx 600 index was seen trading broadly flat, with regional bourses and sectors painting a mixed picture. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index opened 0.2% higher, while France’s CAC 40 fell 0.6% in early morning trade. Germany’s DAX rose 0.1%.It follows more…

“I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a solid 40-minute train ride from Brooklyn,” says born-and-bred New Yorker Emma Straub. “But starting in ninth grade, in 1994, that’s just what I did—took the subway back and forth to Brooklyn Heights.” The author’s sixth novel, American Fantasy (Riverhead), does not take place there—nor on land in general—but on a 1990s-boy-band cruise ship. (Brooklyn serves as a backdrop in her books Modern Lovers and This Time Tomorrow.)Since then, the only times she has left the borough have been for college and graduate school. “My husband and I rented our…

ASML raised its sales forecast for 2026 after it beat first-quarter revenue and profit expectations, driven by continued demand for chips related to AI. Here’s how ASML did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the first quarter:Net sales: 8.8 billion euros ($10.4 billion) versus 8.5 billion euros expectedNet profit: 2.8 billion euros versus 2.5 billion euros expectedASML previously forecast that its first-quarter sales would be between 8.2 billion euros and 8.9 billion euros. The Dutch firm said it now sees 2026 net sales to be between 36 billion euros and 40 billion euros, compared to a previous forecast of 34 billion…

Over the past year, our feeds have become saturated with AI-generated content and endlessly recycled recommendations, favoring speed and volume over substance. It feels like every other video is pushing product, and so it’s no surprise that Gen Zs feel like they’re constantly being sold to online.This new algorithmic reality is giving rise to a new creator class. Enter the intellectual influencer, who distinguishes themselves by creating content rooted in their expertise, hyperfixations, knowledge, or insights on a specific subject, rather than their looks or style. In 2023, trend forecasting consultancy The Future Laboratory predicted the rise of this creator…

An electronic stock board inside the Kabuto One building in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Toru Hanai | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets opened higher Wednesday, tracking overnight gains in U.S. stocks, as oil prices fell amid rising hopes of a diplomatic solution to the Middle East conflict. A White House official told CNBC on Tuesday that a second round of negotiations between Washington and Tehran was under discussion. Nothing has been officially scheduled yet, the official said, who asked not to be named to discuss the administration’s internal plans.”We’ve been called by the other side,” President Donald Trump said Monday. “They’d like…