Finance - CNBC

1. Dividend stocks are catching up to tech stocks on a key earnings metric at a critical time for the market

2. Inside JPMorgan Chase's push to become the startup world’s new Silicon Valley Bank

3. Markets' hopes for Fed interest rate cuts are rapidly fading away

4. Lobster buffet: China’s tech firms feast on OpenClaw as companies race to deploy AI agents

5. JPMorgan Chase reins in lending to private credit firms after marking down software loans

6. Surging oil prices could wipe out benefits from Trump's 'big beautiful bill'

7. There's another energy market that may get hit harder than oil by Strait of Hormuz closure

8. Why China can withstand oil's surge past $100 more easily than other countries

9. China says 'thorough preparations' needed as Trump-Xi meeting hangs in the balance amid Iran war

10. Robinhood's venture fund, which gives investors access to private companies, tanks 11% on first day

11. Fed Governor Miran says job losses in February add to the case for more interest rate cuts

12. U.S.-Iran war exposes big market concentration risk. It isn't in S&P 500 stocks

13. Mortgages in 47 seconds: Better’s new ChatGPT app targets lenders Rocket and UWM

14. Oaktree's Howard Marks says there's no systemic problem with private credit

15. States led by New York sue to block Trump's latest tariffs, calling them an illegal end run around Supreme Court

16. New Berkshire Hathaway CEO still talks with Warren Buffett nearly every day

17. Berkshire Hathaway begins repurchasing shares, CEO Greg Abel buys $15 million in stock

18. Iran war and stocks: Why Global X says 'it might be time to double down' on emerging markets

19. China to boost defense spending by 7%, slowest pace since 2021

20. Coinbase leads crypto stocks higher after Trump signals support for digital asset market structure bill