Joining us now for a first on CNBC interview is Bank of America chair and CEO Brian Moahan. Brian, thank you for taking the time on what is a very busy day for you. Highest quarterly EPS in decades thanks to the Wall Street side of the business.How sustainable is that boost. Uh what point does the volatility that really helped equity trading create a bigger headwind for some of the other businesses you have. >> Well, thank you for having me.Yeah, the EPS was up 25% year-over-year. So, it was a great quarter ...

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How much is is robotics transforming manufacturing and and how much will it because there is that question of of whether the re-industrialization of America actually brings job growth given how much is automated now. >> Yeah, I think there's not enough discussion about the job growth that's coming with us physically having to build out the infrastructure to support AI generally. I mean, we've added 1,800 production workers in the US alone to support this buildout.But in our gas factories, we've also added 2 ...

So Gary, are we overbuilding. Are we overbuilding data centers. I feel like there there's going to be different points of view here.>> So my so so let's break this question apart a little bit. Are we overbuilding data centers that can come online today or next year. No.Are we overbuilding data centers that are coming online in 28, 29, and 30. I happen to think we are for a variety of reasons I can go into, but just start with the most basic one. the AI technology itself is becoming so much faster and more e ...

How do we make sure we win this thing in the US. I know that's something that you also focus on and you and you're involved with a lot of sovereign AI around the world. Where does the US stack up against China and how do we win.>> Great question. I think it is a highly competitive uh space and there are uh certainly you know uh intense intense global competition. You know, I think we have to continue to uh make make sure that we're investing heavily in this. I mean, I guess you you know, if I if I have a fe ...

We've got uh 5 million Trump accounts open and 1.2% million of those uh the uh filers are eligible, their children are eligible for the $1,000 seed uh investment from Treasury into those accounts. So, uh 5 million open for children they 0 to 18. And then for children born during President Trump's term, they'll get the $1,000 seed.So, 1.2% million of those so far. ...

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And now to Rich Clarida, he's the former Federal Reserve Vice Chair, now Global Economic Advisor for PIMCO. Welcome back, it's good to have you. Yeah, looking forward to the conversation.What do What do you make of the Bostic comments. Are we reading too much into that or is he saying something here. I did take note of it for the reasons that you and Steve Liesman mentioned.First of all, we haven't heard a lot about wait and see from Secretary Bostic until the last day or two. And then what I really took no ...

Robinhood shares jumping more than 10% going into the close after Bernstein reiterated its outperform rating with a $130 price target implying more than 65% upside from here. Now, the bull case really comes down to two of Hood's core businesses. First, prediction markets.Bernstein expects that segment to nearly quadruple this year making it the single largest revenue driver for 2026. Analysts point to the FIFA World Cup this summer and midterm elections in the back half of the year as volume catalysts. And ...

The cruise industry is looking at solid global demand in 2026, but future growth is constrained by capacity. There's just not that many ships coming on board. The biggest of the ship builders, Finkeier, is mostly located in Europe.With me now is the uh executive who's here at Sea Trade, Gier Roberto Fger. >> Hello. Okay.So, talk to me a little bit about all the orders and there are a lot of them for new cruise ships and the challenge of turning them out for the cruise industry. >> This is a special moment f ...