The return of ‘pump and dump’ stock scams

Foreign central banks have slashed their holdings of Treasuries at the New York Federal Reserve to the lowest level since 2012, and a preliminary estimate showed that Eurozone inflation jumped to 2.5 per cent in March. Plus, we hear from two small US business owners about how the ...  Show more

Swiss lawmakers have assured senior UBS executives that they will water down stringent new rules and the Trump administration took its first step in opening the more than $10tn US retirement marketplace to private markets. Plus, as part of our series marking one year since so-cal ...  Show more

US markets reporter George Steer has been tracking stocks that have soared, then crashed. Some of them might be “pump and dumps”, an old-fashioned style of scam where insiders generate excitement, along with sales of a stock, selling them when the price rises. Today on the show, ...  Show more

The president proposes and the markets dispose … of recent gains. Tariffs, deportations, budget cuts, political isolation and other “exciting” new plans seem to be unsettling investors, who are leaving US equities and heading for the safety of bonds. Today on the show, Rob Arm ...

One day after the worst session for the Nasdaq since December 2022, Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored what's ahead for the tech sector. Chips hoped to recoup some of Wednesday's steep losses after Taiwan Semiconductor reported better-than expected revenue g ...

Yesterday saw a flurry of economic data releases, accompanied by significant political developments. The US economy demonstrated stronger-than-expected resilience in the second quarter, expanding at a revised annualised rate of 3.3%, while recent labour market figures suggest a s ...  Show more