We are always looking for the so-called tells in the market. These are when the really smart money tips their hand by buying or selling an abnormally large amount of stock or options ahead of an event. Whether that event is an earnings report, new product introduction, or industry conference, the activity in the hours
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Chinese streaming firm Tencent Music Entertainment delivered its first earnings report as a public company, meeting market expectations but exposing soaring licence and content production costs which pulled its shares down 6 percent. The U.S.-listed company’s shares have gained about 43 percent since debuting in December, but its results published on Tuesday highlight the need
Shares in Inmarsat Plc jumped 17 percent on Wednesday after the British satellite operator said it was in talks about a $3.3 billion cash offer from a private equity-led consortium, opening up the possibility of a bidding war. The consortium, which initially included UK-based Apax Partners, U.S.-based Warburg Pincus and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Student debt burdens tens of millions of people every year. If you are a government worker, and have been consistently paying your loans on time, you may be eligible for the public service loan forgiveness program. This program was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007 and allows not-for-profit and government employees
If you are looking for a way to lower your taxes and have already worked your way through well-known deductions such as child-care expenses and property taxes, it may pay to think outside the box. There are some write-offs you may not have known about, and those could apply to your situation. That could come
Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon is showing how retail can work and is “crushing” the competition along the way, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. The cosmetics company reported a great quarter last week, including more than 9 percent same-store sales growth and a 14 percent subscriber growth in its rewards program, he said. Ulta Beauty’s
The University of Southern California has blocked students who were linked to the admissions scandal from registering for classes and getting their transcripts. Among the students enrolled in USC are the daughters of “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, whom federal prosecutors charged with paying $500,000 in bribes to get
One Wall Street firm is recommending its clients buy Lyft weeks before that’s even possible. The second-most popular ride-hailing app is gearing up to list on the Nasdaq at the end of March. According to its regulatory filing, Lyft expects to be valued at $20 billion. Montana- based firm D.A. Davidson isn’t waiting until shares,
Atlassian, the maker of collaboration software for developers, is aiming to ramp up revenue from its Trello service, more than two years after buying the tool-tracking company for $425 million. In a blog post on Tuesday, Trello said that it’s limiting free use of the software for groups. Once a team of users exceeds 10
Women hoping to retire by age 67 face a tough choice: sock away more cash now or delay retirement even further. Those were the findings from a recent survey by Aon. The retirement consulting firm analyzed the 2017 records of 1.3 million individual savers, along with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 7
Most people are all too familiar with the latte factor – the idea that if you eliminate your $5-a-day coffee habit (or green juice serving or any other unnecessary daily expense), you could accumulate a lot of money over time, especially if you use that money to invest. In fact, Americans could save $5,339.35 a
Elon Musk has “made a fool” of the judge overseeing the settlement case between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Tesla CEO, CNBC’s Jim Cramer contended Tuesday. Musk has backed U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York “into a corner,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “This judge
Fiat Chrysler shares jumped on Tuesday to the top of Europe’s STOXX 600 after the president of Peugeot family holding company FFP told French daily Les Echos he would support a new deal and suggested Fiat Chrysler was among the options. “With them, as with others, the planets could be aligned,” Robert Peugeot was reported
The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Enquirer’s publisher paid $200,000 to obtain intimate texts between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his mistress Lauren Sanchez. American Media, the supermarket tabloid’s publisher, reportedly paid that sum to Michael Sanchez, Lauren’s brother. The Journal’s finding, attributed to people familiar with the matter, parallels the conclusion reached
If you’re a first-time home buyer and looking at cities in California, you may want to rethink your plans. Some under-the-radar metro areas in other areas of the country may provide more value. That’s according to a new study from personal finance website Bankrate, which ranked the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. for
Reports of Americans being unprepared for retirement have become so widespread that it no longer seems to elicit any emotional response. The Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 40.6 percent of all U.S. households (where the head of the household is between ages 35 and 64) are projected to run out of money in retirement.
It’s only natural that parents want to help their children succeed in life, but many may be jeopardizing retirement in doing so. In fact, parents are spending twice as much on their adult children than they are putting away to live out their golden years, according to a recent study by Merrill Lynch and Age
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Tilray were up more than 2 percent in extended trading Monday following the release of the Canadian cannabis company’s fourth-quarter earnings. Tilray reported a loss of 33 cents on revenue of $15.5 million. Wall Street estimated revenue of $14.1 million. Brendan Kennedy, President and
Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, says he talked to Google researchers on Monday about the application of artificial-intelligence technology in health care. The intersection of AI and health care is a longtime area of interest for Google. Researchers there have explored the use of AI algorithms for making predictions based onmedical records.
When it comes to managing money, women may be making a crucial financial mistake that is making them poorer. And they probably do not realize that they’re doing it. You’ve heard it before: Women earn less money, take more time out of the work force and live longer lives. But regardless of those systemic financial
Climate change questions don’t get more fundamental than this one: How much time is left to act before it is too late? Right now the difficulty of answering that question is showing up in a place where many individuals are heavily invested in getting the answer right: The index funds responsible for meeting millions of
Complacency will make fixing the nation’s healthcare system a daunting task, according to Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway recently joined with J. P. Morgan Chase and Amazon to develop a new model for their 1 million employees. Buffett along with Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos and J. P. Morgan‘s Jamie Dimon recently formed the healthcare joint venture
Lana Pol’s small businesses are enjoying big savings under the new tax law — at least for now. The entrepreneur runs four small companies across Iowa, including Mowbility Sales & Service, which sells agricultural equipment, and Geetings Inc., a trucking and warehousing business. Pol said she saw a drop in her overall tax burden this
Ride-hailing platform Lyft said on Monday it would raise as much as $2 billion in an initial public offering. Lyft expects to price 30.8 million shares between $62 and $68 per share, it said in a filing. At the higher end of the range, the company will have a market valuation of $19.64 billion. See
If you and your estranged spouse are leading separate lives in separate homes, you might be thinking of filing your taxes that way, too. Most married couples residing together under the same roof would see fit to file their income taxes on one joint return. A number of couples have sought the alternative, which is
Economic forecaster Lakshman Achuthan is warning investors they could get scorched by one of 2019’s most popular groups. Achuthan believes the semiconductor rally is showing signs of breaking down, and he’s blaming shipment demand. “Collapse comes to mind when you look at global demand for semiconductor chips,” he said Friday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” Achuthan,
Stocks hit a new high for the year this week, back on track to match a post-election pattern that has stood the test of time. The stock market has risen in the year after all 18 midterm elections since World War II, with the S&P 500 delivering an average return of 14.5 percent, according to
Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that Moscow and Washington are more interested in “muscle flexing” than improving their relationship. Asked whether he has hopes of thawing tensions between Russia and the West while economic sanctions are in place, Deripaska replied: “The way I see it,
With no one hitting all winning numbers in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, the top prize has jumped above the half-billion-dollar mark. Now at a whopping $550 million for Wednesday night’s drawing, the jackpot has been growing for more than two months of twice-weekly drawings. And while the odds are stacked against players winning it —
The prospect of 5G is already paying off. Three exchange-traded funds pegged to the rise of fifth-generation connectivity, the next phase of wireless communications often referred to as 5G, are outpacing the S&P 500 so far in 2019. While the S&P 500 has gained over 12 percent this year, the Pacer Benchmark Data & Infrastructure
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