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Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO once told his wife that it is the job of the government to "take care of the poor, the sick, the old." According to a New York Times report from Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ballmer's wife disagreed with her husband which...

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager with trillions of dollars under management, shocked many last month when the company said it will use replace certain money managers with machines. Larry Fink, BlackRock's CEO, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Monday to talk...

Details of President Donald Trump's infrastructure plan are expected to be released this year, which makes the topic an area of great interest to investors. Jacqueline Hinman, the CEO of CH2M, an engineering and consulting firm, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Friday to offer her expert...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)' is trading at its lowest levels since its initial public offering, which doesn't necessarily bode well for other private companies looking to list their stock on a public exchange. Nelson Griggs, head of listings for the Nasdaq exchange, was a guest on CNBC Friday to...

Richard LeFrak is the co-chair and advisor to President Donald Trump's infrastructure council. On Friday he was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment to talk about the need for infrastructure work to be done and why he admires Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)'s CEO Elon Musk. LeFrak, a billionaire and New...

Billionaire investor David Tepper said during a CNBC interview on Wednesday that by no means are stocks cheap at current levels — and shorting the market perhaps isn't the best strategy moving forward. Tepper's bias toward the long side stems from positive developments in Washington,...

Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Wednesday, and one of the topics of conversation focused on why he was selling Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last year at around the same time fellow billionaire Warren Buffett began accumulating the stock....

Barry Sternlicht, the chairman and CEO of the global investment firm Starwood Capital Group was a guest on CNBC Tuesday and talked about Monday night's dinner. Normally listening to someone's dinner plans from the prior night isn't of much interest - but Sternlicht was joined with...

Carson Block, the founder and chief investment officer of Muddy Waters, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Tuesday to talk about what appears to be an unpopular strategy among investors and fund managers — shorting stocks. Carson was quick to point out that assets under management for...

Small businesses across the United States are more optimistic at the end of February than they were at the start of the month. Speaking as a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Tuesday, Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX)'s president and CEO Marty Mucci noted February also marks the third consecutive...

Wilbur Ross, billionaire investor turned Commerce Secretary in the Trump administration, was interviewed during Friday's segment of CNBC's "Squawk Box." Among one of the many topics of conversation was President Donald Trump's call to renegotiate the North American Trade Agreement. Ross said that...

Shares of Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) were trading lower by more than 3 percent on Thursday despite the company's fourth-quarter report containing a top- and bottom-line beat. However, the grocer's guidance for the first quarter came in light and the company also cited deflationary concerns. Kroger's...

Aspect Ventures' co-founder Theresia Gouw was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Wednesday to offer her expert take on Snap's upcoming IPO. Snap, the parent company of the Snapchat social media app, has one key metric working in its favor, namely the 2.5 billion daily "Snaps." According to...

Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz's chief economic adviser, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Tuesday and discussed three factors are moving stocks higher and two factors that could put a dent in the ongoing rally. El-Erian argued that the three factors boosting stock markets higher across the...