Finance executives speak during a panel on the future of banking at CNBC’s East Tech West event. Dave Zhong | Getty Images for CNBC Banks must operate more like technology companies in order to stay relevant for years to come, executives in the financial services industry say. “I happen to believe that many banks, perhaps
A trader blows bubble gum during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 1, 2019, in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images As the S&P 500 has broken out of its trading range into record highs, euphoria has been growing — fast. Technicians like Stephen Suttmeier
©Tim – stock.adobe.com The most popular index is the best performer, just like before the Dot-Com Bubble When you talk about the “stock market” or your “stock portfolio,” what do you really mean? For many investors, the S&P 500 is “the market.” After all, the majority of the total value of all stocks on U.S.
The 2019 Ford F-150 Limited pickup Mack Hogan | CNBC The Ford F-Series is huge. It outsells every other car and truck in the world, despite being sold in only a handful of markets. And despite going up against all-new trucks from General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, the older Ford trucks are having no issues
A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and U.S. dollar bills at a bank counter in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on August 6, 2019. STR | AFP | Getty Images China is heavily exposed to the U.S. dollar, but now, with the risk of “decoupling,” Beijing is silently diversifying its reserves to reduce
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi arrives at the New York Stock Exchange as his company makes its initial public offering, Friday, May 10, 2019. Richard Drew | AP Uber’s stock is trading well below the price it debuted at earlier this year but Barclays made the case for how the ridesharing company will soon turn its
You think you’re going to earn a lot investing a lump sum? You’re thinking wrong. Future value Getty I’ll grab the money now and invest it, you tell yourself. Get Social Security early, or take the lump-sum buyout of a corporate pension. I can put the cash in the stock market and earn way more
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tennessee (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images The Hermitage Hotel was named the “Best City Center Historic Hotel” by the Historic Hotels of America at the 2019 Awards of Excellence. Historic Hotels of America is the official program of
A general view shows people walking across the flooded St. Mark’s Square, by St. Mark’s Basilica on November 15, 2019 in Venice, two days after the city suffered its highest tide in 50 years. Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images For Venetians, water is a way of life. It surrounds the city, ebbing and
(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Let’s call them the undisrupted champions of Wall Street. A small group of enormous, elite consumer companies — once seen as vulnerable to onrushing digital disruption and shifting public tastes — have
FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images There’s still time to shave a few bucks off your 2019 tax bill — if you act quickly. The 2018 tax season came with harsh lessons for some taxpayers who didn’t properly adjust their plans for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This overhaul of the tax code roughly
Google employees at the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, walk off the job to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty Images When it comes to investing, the notion that you can make money in the market and feel good about your investments at
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz is the president of Charles Schwab Foundation and a certified financial planner. Courtesy of Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz has a simple message for parents and schools: Teach your kids about money. The certified financial planner — who also is board chair and president of the Charles Schwab Foundation — is on a mission
null Getty On Saturday, I recounted the ways in which the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund was set up for failure, with most teachers never seeing any of the money they paid in but the lucky few hitting the jackpot with comfortable benefit payouts at young ages, and, for those in the early years of the
With his new album, Jesus Is King, Kanye West has turned more and more religious. He may have been toying with bankruptcy a few years ago, but today, his fashion and music empires seem to be raking in the cash. True, Kanye isn’t on the Forbes billionaires list just yet, but perhaps a name change
Innovation has become somewhat of a buzzword that gets tossed around by many professionals and organizations to describe their business and what sets them apart from others. While many project management pros I work with tout their innovative capabilities, I see many of them struggle to make strides because they are often afraid to take
aviation-images.com | Universal Images Group | Getty Images DUBAI — Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer forcefully rejected the notion that his company is benefiting from the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max fleet while speaking to CNBC during the Dubai Air Show. “I really need to correct that cultural belief. This does not benefit anyone
Robert Iger, Chief Executive Officer of Disney, poses in “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” during a media preview event at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, May 29, 2019. Mario Anzuoni | Reuters Disney+ is here, ushering in the unofficial kickoff to “The Streaming Wars” — the slew of monthly subscription services that are flooding the market
Nick Schommer, Janus Henderson Source: Janus Henderson (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Being a contrarian can make someone seem like a genius or idiotic. For Nick Schommer, it has been the former this year. Schommer manages the Janus
You saved up all your life for retirement, squirreling money into individual retirement accounts or 401(K)s and the like. And that reduced your taxes because the retirement contributions were deducted from your income. But once retired, you can’t just sit on this tax-sheltered money. By law, at 70½, you must take some of it out, based