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Stocks were down 20% last year on fears of an imminent downturn in earnings for 2023. But it’s a very different January: the S & P 500 is up 4%. Consider: 1) half of the S & P 500 stocks are above their 200-day moving average; 2) Big industrial names like Caterpillar, General Electric, Snap-On, Cummins, United Rental, and Deere are at or near new highs, signaling the global economy is improving; 3) Other indicators of global demand — semiconductors and metals stocks — are also up more than 10% this year. That is not a bull market yet, but…

A Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.Andy Lyons | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making the biggest moves midday:Goldman Sachs — The bank slid more than 2% after reporting earnings-per-share and revenue that missed Wall Street estimates Tuesday.Pfizer — Wells Fargo downgraded the pharmaceutical giant to equal weight from overweight on Monday, saying the company needed a reset from the pandemic for shares to work again. Pfizer was down 1.25% in the premarket.Morgan Stanley — Morgan Stanley’s earnings topped Wall Street expectations Tuesday, thanks, in part to record wealth management revenue. Shares were 1% higher in the premarket.Vodafone — The…

Rich travelers will have to pay more to fly if the aviation industry is to transition to greener fuels, the boss of one of the world’s biggest airports said Tuesday. Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos hosted by CNN’s Richard Quest, Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye said that wealthy individuals and companies should pay extra to fly with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in order to bring the costs down for everyone else, particularly people in developing countries. He said that financiers and energy suppliers should invest in SAF production, including in emerging markets. “But as individuals…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. The world is in debt. A record amount of debt. Three hundred trillion dollars, to be exact. That’s the total amount that governments, households and corporations around the world owed in June 2022, as estimated by the Institute of International Finance. That number is about 349% of global gross domestic product, and the equivalent of $37,500 of debt for every single person in…

When it comes to subsidies, Germany and France are Europe’s kings, leaving the bloc’s other 25 countries standing by idly as mere spectators of their joint reign.The latest numbers released by the European Commission confirmed what many had for months feared: since Brussels tweaked the bloc’s state aid rules in March 2022 to cope with the economic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, Berlin and Paris together account for 77% of the €672 billion approved programmes.The changes allowed for faster and easier disbursements of subsidised loans, subsidised grants and subsidised state guarantees for companies trying to escape bankruptcy under the…

A screen displays the trading information for Morgan Stanley on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), January 19, 2022.Brendan McDermid | ReutersMorgan Stanley reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday that exceeded Wall Street expectations, boosted by the bank’s record wealth management revenue and growth at its trading business.Shares of the firm climbed 5.8% Tuesday after the results.In the fourth quarter, net income fell to $2.11 billion, or $1.26 per share, from $3.59 billion, or $2.01 per share, a year ago, but it topped an analyst estimate of $1.19 a share from Refinitiv.Profit has been hurt by a slowdown…

CNN  —  Indiana GOP Rep. Jim Banks announced on Tuesday that he is running for US Senate, seeking the seat left open by outgoing Republican Sen. Mike Braun, who is running for governor. “We NEED conservatives in Washington who aren’t afraid to fight Biden’s radical agenda. That’s why I am running to represent our great state of Indiana in the United States Senate,” Banks wrote in a tweet Tuesday morning. Banks, a Navy veteran and conservative who just won his fourth term in the House, is the first to enter what could be a crowded and competitive GOP primary for…

After having surgery to remove a small cancerous tumor from his neck last year, Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun decided to tell his employees, clients and shareholders of his condition. He still needed to undergo radiation and chemotherapy, and explained to them what that would mean for his work schedule. While deciding to go public was difficult for Sadoun because it meant showing vulnerability both as a person and as a leader of one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, he said he received thousands of compassionate responses from both inside and outside Publicis after doing so. What shocked him…

INDIA TO OVERTAKE CHINA AS WORLD’S MOST POPULOUS NATION Experts said China, which has more than 1.4 billion people, still faces population challenges such as stress on its infrastructure.  “China is not about to run out of people. It’s still a huge population,” said Dr Donaldson.  “The fear is that they’ve overcorrected, that they’re going to have too many elderly people, too few young people, which will have major effects on the economy and on China’s future.” The country’s birth rate last year was just 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in 2021 and…

The CEO of German tech giant SAP said the world is entering the next phase of globalization — and he’s largely optimistic on the outlook for technology despite challenges posed by higher interest rates and supply chain disruptions.”We are entering from my perspective the next phase of globalization,” SAP chief Christian Klein told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.In this era of change, companies will want to shift their focus toward building up resilient supply chains and improving their sustainability credentials, Klein said.He added that firms are coming together to secure their supply chains…