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Bloomberg•23 hours agoLove for Emerging-Market Has $6 Billion Flowing Out of Developed-Nation ETFs
Exchange-traded funds focused on developed nations including the U.S. lost close to $6 billion in the five days ending Jan. 18, the first week of outflows in three months, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Expectations for a pause in interest-rate tightening by the Federal Reserve and hopes that the U.S. and China will reach a trade deal have boosted investors' appetite for riskier assets. “If they do get the economic growth and the earnings growth that's expected, they're going to show themselves to be awfully inexpensive,” said Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide Funds Group, which manages $60 billion.
- Benzinga•3 hours ago
Teva Has Potential For 6% CAGR Ahead, UBS Says In Upgrade
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (NYSE: TEVA) stock is down 73 percent from its 2015 peak — and it's nearly struck bottom, with recovery just around the corner, in UBS' view. Analyst Navin Jacob upgraded Teva from Neutral to Buy and raised the price target from $23 to $24. By Jacob's account, the Street is overestimating Teva's risk in paying down its debt and exaggerates the potential pain from cost-cutting measures.
- Bloomberg•1 hour ago
Dell CEO Joins Davos Debate on 70% Tax Rate: 'Not Supportive'
Billionaire Michael Dell, chief executive officer of the eponymous technology giant, rejected a suggestion by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of a 70-percent marginal tax rate on the wealthiest Americans. “No, I'm not supportive of that,” Dell said at a Davos panel on making digital globalization inclusive. Three weeks after Ocasio-Cortez floated the idea in an interview on “60 Minutes” to raise the top marginal tax rate on Americans' income of more than $10 million to 70 percent, it was a hot topic at the gathering of the global financial and political elite.
- Reuters•13 minutes ago
U.S. sanctions on Venezuela would reroute crude, leave refiners short
Potential U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's crude oil exports would cut off the nation from Gulf Coast refiners that are among its biggest customers, likely forcing it to send more crude to China, India or other Asian countries, traders said on Wednesday. U.S. refineries that depend on Venezuela's heavy crude would have even more trouble securing supplies as Canadian and Mexican crudes are often not as discounted and are limited in availability. The United States is considering moves to cripple Venezuela's oil shipments, which account for nearly all of the country's exports, in response to the reelection of President Nicolas Maduro that was widely viewed as a sham.
- CNBC Videos•20 hours ago
Top technician says forget the market sell-off, just keep...
Chris Verrone, Strategas Technician, on the breakout stocks to buy. With CNBC's Bob Pisani and Melissa Lee, and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Karen Finerman, Steve Grasso and Guy Adami.
- U.S.News & World Report•4 hours ago
7 Retirement Accounts You Should Consider
More people are being offered something that they may not recognize as a retirement savings tool: a health savings account. These accounts are only available to those with a high-deductible health insurance policy. Not only can a health savings account lower the cost of your insurance plan, it can also help boost your retirement savings.
- CNBC•7 hours ago
Bill Gates: My 'best investment' turned $10 billion into $200 billion worth of economic benefit
Investing in global health organizations aimed at increasing access to vaccines creates a 20-to-1 return, the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist says. Investing in global health organizations aimed at increasing access to vaccines creates a 20-to-1 return in economic benefit, billionaire Microsoft MSFT co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates told CNBC on Wednesday. Over the past two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated "a bit more than $10 billion" into mainly three groups: The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
- InvestorPlace•23 hours ago
5 Stocks Under $5 to Buy Before They Soar
Zynga (ZNGA) ZNGA Stock Price: $4.32 I'm not a huge fan of the mobile gaming sector. It's a tough space plagued with competition and low margins. Plus, competition is only building thanks to social media apps becoming increasingly multi-purpose.
- Reuters•13 hours ago
U.S. airlines tap army helicopter pilots to ease shortage
U.S. Army pilot Shaun Perez spent ten hours flying an Apache helicopter over Afghanistan, providing gun cover for Special Forces soldiers on the ground as they hunted for high-value targets, guns and weapons. Returning to his base at dawn, he donned a fresh uniform before shutting himself into a small room to secure the next stage of his career - as a commercial airline pilot. Perez took advantage of one of the tightest labor markets in the United States, created by years of slow hiring, a wave of pending retirements at major U.S. airlines, and Federal Aviation Administration rules that in 2013 increased the number of required training hours from 250 to 1,500.
- Fox Business•2 hours ago
Unconventional loans surge in 2018: Housing trouble ahead?
Homebuyers are increasingly opting for nontraditional mortgages – which helped precipitate the housing crisis about one decade ago – potentially foreshadowing trouble as high prices continue to weigh on housing affordability. Throughout the first three quarters of last year, unconventional mortgages – those that don't require borrowers to show typical income or other asset verifying documentation – rose 24 percent to $34 billion, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. While unconventional mortgages accounted for just 3 percent of overall originations during that period – traditional mortgage loans declined.
- TechCrunch•21 hours ago
Oracle allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from underrepresented employees
Oracle has allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from racially underrepresented workers (black, Latinx and Asian) as well as women, the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said in a filing today. The OFCCP is the office within the DOL that enforces equal pay and ensures government contractors comply with anti-discrimination regulation. In the OFCCP's second amended complaint today, the office alleges Oracle "impermissibly denies equal employment opportunity to non-Asian applicants for employment, strongly preferring a workforce that it can later underpay.
- U.S.News & World Report•yesterday
7 Marijuana Companies That Could Grow
Here are seven marijuana companies that could seek acquisitions soon. AbbVie, a Chicago-based biopharmaceutical company that was founded in 2013 after being spun off from Abbott Laboratories, could acquire companies, such as GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH), Insys Therapeutics (INSY), Zynerba Pharmaceuticals (ZYNE) and Cara Therapeutics (CARA), to boost its pipeline of drugs, Spatafora says. "AbbVie could buy Insys, which has been hammered for their drug, Syndros, which is complementary to what they are doing," he says.
- CNBC•7 hours ago
Nobel winner Robert Shiller says there's still a risk of a full-blown bear market
"There is a feeling that the stock market might be due for some deflating now because it's been a long time, and we've seen some hints of it and we haven't seen the real deflation yet," he told CNBC at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. U.S. stock markets may have recovered slightly from sharp falls at the end of last year, but there's still a risk of a significant downward trend, Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University and a Nobel laureate, told CNBC Wednesday.
- CNBC Videos•3 hours ago
Hulu changes subscription prices, lowers price of basic p...
CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on Hulu's decision to lower the price of its ad-supported subscription, while raising its other tiers.
- Bloomberg•49 minutes ago
Tesla Reduces Model S, Model X Production Hours; Shares Drop
Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk announced earlier this month that Tesla would stop accepting orders for the 75 kilowatt-hour version of the Model S or Model X starting Jan. 14. “We recently announced that we are no longer taking orders for the 75 kWh version of Model S and X in order to streamline production and provide even more differentiation with Model 3,” Tesla said in an emailed statement in response to an inquiry from Bloomberg News. The dialing back follows Musk's announcement last week that Tesla would cut 7 percent of its workforce.
- Money•yesterday
The 1 Thing That Affects How People View You at Work — And How You Can Change It, According to a Management Expert
It has to do with what comes first: the first things people learn about you, the first impressions you make, or the first activities you engage in. To save effort and time, our mind unconsciously organizes information and experience into mental maps—and some of these maps are biased. Perceptual biases are mental shortcuts that influence impressions, understanding, and decision-making.
- TheStreet.com•23 minutes ago
Papa John's Is Hot Following Reports of Potential Buyout
popped Wednesday following a report that Restaurant Brands International Inc. Shares of Papa John's shot up 7.4% on the news. Restaurants Brands, which is the parent company of Burger King, Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen and Tim Hortons, could team up with ousted former CEO John Schnatter and investment capital firm 3G Capital to make the purchase, according to DealReporter.
- ETF Trends•3 hours ago
How Investors Can Navigate the Markets on Autopilot
By using an objective, rules-based trend following strategy, Trendpilot ETFs automatically adjust based on three indicators: Equity Indicator: When the Benchmark Total Return Index closes above its 200-day SMA for five consecutive business days, the exposure will be 100% to the Benchmark Index. From the equity position, the Index will change to the 50/50 position or the T-Bill position depending on the 50/50 Indicator and the T-Bill Indicator. Price Signal 50/50 Indicator: When the Benchmark Total Return Index closes below its 200-day SMA for five consecutive business days, the exposure will be 50% to the Benchmark Index and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills.
- CNBC•6 hours ago
Ray Dalio: Capital could flee the US if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's tax idea becomes reality
The "income and opportunity gap" will determine the winner of the next election, Ray Dalio says. "How tax rates are changed will have a huge effect on incentives and could have a huge effect on capital flows, and that will have big effects on markets and economies," says Dalio. The manager of the world's biggest hedge fund spoke in an exclusive interview from the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
No Idea Is Off Limits for IMF's First Woman Chief Economist
Gita Gopinath has a knack for asking the kind of questions that, not so long ago, might have raised eyebrows inside the International Monetary Fund, where she just took over as chief economist. What if more emerging markets actively managed their currencies, like China does? Interrogating the data for answers, and using them to poke holes in the conventional playbooks for economic policy, was a hallmark of 47-year-old Gopinath's work at Harvard.
- Bloomberg•10 hours ago
China Meat Boss Returns Home After Mysterious Disappearance 3 Years Ago
China Yurun Food Group Ltd. jumped in Hong Kong as its founder and largest shareholder Zhu Yicai returned home after mysteriously disappearing three years ago. Shares of the Nanjing-based supplier of raw pork and processed meats surged 29 percent Wednesday, the most in more than three years. Trading volume exceeded 30 times the stock's three-month daily average.
- U.S.News & World Report•21 hours ago
8 Best High-Growth Investments for Your Retirement Account
Build your portfolio with high-growth investments. Value stocks can offer some reassurance in a down market compared with the increased volatility often associated with high-growth stocks. When taking a long-term view, accounting for market cycles, investing in stocks with growth potential can pay off.
- CNBC•yesterday
How to answer 14 common but tricky interview questions
Those job hunters have asked themselves at a minimum what they want to learn from their next job, how the position will help them learn and whether their skills fit the company's mission . Jobseekers who take these basic steps will feel more prepared and empowered when they step into any interview. "By knowing these answers, you'll also be able to answer what your weaknesses are and why you want to work there in a really proactive way," explains Aujula.
Reuters•2 hours agoCEOs sour on Trump policies, warn they hurt business, investment
Foreign direct investment to the United States fell in 2018, and companies gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps this year say they are worried Trump's trade war with China will dampen the global economy and business investments even further. One key complaint here this week: Companies increasingly reliant on consumers in China have had to lower their earnings outlooks as the world's second-largest economy cools. And while the U.S. administration has cut taxes and regulations to attract new investment, a wave of caution is rippling through many industries in the United States.
- U.S.News & World Report•3 hours ago
How Investors Can Have Enough Money in Retirement
In the Monte Carlo, the simulation could assume a 7 percent return in the first year, an 8 percent loss in the second year and a 19 percent gain in the final year, still equal to an return of 6 percent. The sequence in which these returns occur and the disparity from the mean in any given year can dramatically impact an investor's retirement portfolio. Here's how it works: After a baseline plan is developed to define various assumptions, such as average rate of return, annual inflation, desired annual withdrawals, life expectancy, assets at retirement, and so forth, a Monte Carlo simulation can be utilized to test the viability of the strategy with hundreds of trials to mimic different marke...
