(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Wall Street veteran Karen Firestone knows all too well that stock picking isn’t as easy as it used to be, but her decades of experience is serving her well. Firestone runs a
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Chairman Vince McMahon (L) and wrestler Triple H appear in the ring during the WWE Monday Night Raw show at the Thomas & Mack Center August 24, 2009 Ethan Miller | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter.
RubberBall Productions | Brand X Pictures | Getty Images At 2 a.m. on Oct. 17, Helen Ramos tried to wake up her son, Michael Bowen. Something about the 37-year-old looked strange. Ramos, 65, uses a wheelchair, and running errands can be a struggle. The day before, Bowen had gone grocery shopping for her. Later, Ramos
14 September 2019, US, New York: The New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. With over 55 million … [+] media, the library is one of the largest libraries in the world. Photo: Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Say you’re retired in a suburban town.
Leaning foreclosure sign in front of a modern single family home on a cloudy cold day Getty $8.41. That was how much 83-year-old Uri Rafaeli, a retired engineer, in Michigan underpaid his property taxes by in 2014. That was all it took for him to lose his house. Rafaeli bought a 1,500-square-foot Southfield home in
A new forecast predicts historically low housing inventory levels in 2020. Getty Demand for homes will be strong next year, but homebuyers will have few options. In fact, according to a new forecast for 2020, next year may just see the biggest housing inventory shortage in U.S. history. According to the 2020 National Housing Forecast
CNBC’s Jim Cramer takes a look at the coming week of earnings reports, the Fed and stock market news. The “Mad Money” host sits down with Boot Barn CEO to get a better picture of its expansion plans. Later in the show he explains why President Donald Trump should let the Dec. 15 tariff hike
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan speaks at the Dropbox Work In Progress Conference in San Francisco on September 25, 2019. Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images for Dropbox Shares of video conference software company Zoom initially rose but then fell as much as 11% Thursday after the company issued fiscal third-quarter earnings that surpassed estimates, revealing slowing growth.
November’s surprisingly strong jobs report makes it less likely the Fed will move to cut interest rates, and it could even sound more hawkish when it meets next week. A so-called ‘hawkish’ Fed is one that is more likely to move to tighten policy than make it looser by cutting interest rates or taking other
Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images RBC Capital thinks that there is a quickly growing but overlooked part of Amazon’s business – namely, Amazon Business – with revenue that will exceed more than $30 billion in just a few years. “We believe Amazon Business has largely been ignored by investors,” RBC Capital Markets analyst
CNBC | Jaden Urbi Outstanding education debt has outpaced credit card and auto debt. The average college graduate leaves school $30,000 in the red today, up from $10,000 in the 1990s. Nearly 40% of students who took out loans in 2004 will default on their debt by 2023, according to the Education Department’s own figures
Getty Imagine this: Your employer says not only can you work from home, you can work from anywhere in the world. Hmm… Maybe you’d move near your grown kids in another part of the country and work from there. Or maybe you’d relocate to a less expensive, warmer spot and cut your daily living costs.
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Trade news will make or break the market’s December rally. Scott Heins/Getty Images Topline: Wall Street is rallying on the back of solid economic data, with Friday’s blockbuster jobs report showing that the labor market is still a bright spot for the U.S. economy, which could
photo credit: Getty Getty The year of rejuvenation continues for the domestic-focused U.S. real estate sector following one of the toughest years for REITs and homebuilders since the financial crisis. For the U.S. housing industry, the story of this year continues to center around the resilient demographic-led growth in household formations along with the sharp
Friday’s market action “makes sense,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. The major stock indexes all rallied about 1% in the session after Wall Street learned that 266,000 jobs were added to the economy in November, trouncing the projected 187,000 figure. Cramer said the nonfarm payroll results “drove a stake through the heart of the idea that
CrowdStrike released fiscal third-quarter 2020 results Thursday, and it beat on both the top and bottom lines. The stock fluctuated in after-hours trading on Thursday. It was up as much as 3.5% late in the afternoon. Here’s how the company did versus expectations: Loss per share: 7 cents vs. 11 cents expected, per Refinitiv estimates
China’s President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. AFP Contributor | AFP | Getty Images The Trump administration’s Dec. 15 deadline for new tariffs on China looms large, and while most strategists expect them to be
eclipse_images | E+ | Getty Images Tax season is still months away, but the IRS will want to know about your cryptocurrency holdings. The IRS just released a new Schedule 1 for the 2019 tax season, spelling out the details on above-the-line deductions, including the tax break for student loan interest and health savings account
“The Wolves of Wall Street I” David Yarrow | Maddox Gallery An homage to excess, featuring the signatures of two Hollywood legends, quickly banked $200,000 from an unnamed buyer this week. The black-and-white “Wolves of Wall Street I,” by famed British photographer David Yarrow, sold at Art Miami within 10 minutes of the art fair’s
More than a quarter-billion dollars is up for grabs in the next Mega Millions drawing. After 10 weeks with no one hitting all six numbers, the jackpot has climbed to $285 million for Friday night’s drawing. And while the odds are stacked against a jackpot win — your chance is 1 in about 302 million