Why the stock market is headed for a swift recovery

In my four earlier ones, I covered why December was lousy and why stocks are on the right side of a swift V-shaped recovery. U.S. stocks have climbed more than 10 percent since the market close on Christmas Eve. Assuming December 24 remains the bottom, this correction ended later in a calendar year than any correction or bear market ever.

Health Savings Account Rules: 6 Little-Known HSA Tips That Will Save You Money

Health Savings Account Rules: 6 Little-Known HSA Tips That Will Save You Money

Tesla will overrun traditional car companies because they still aren't moving fast enough

It took the worst corporate scandal in automotive history for Volkswagen to make the necessary decision to transform itself into an electric car company. The world's largest car maker will spend $50 billion over the next five years to develop 50 new electric models, an increase from six today, and produce 1 million electric cars by 2025. This radical reinvention is exactly what is needed to stave off a challenge from Tesla (TSLA) and a band of upstarts from California and China that are building for an electric future.

Jack Bogle's counter-intuitive lesson on American excellence: Don't chase it

Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, who died this week at the age of 89, has been rightly celebrated as one of the most important innovators in the history of capitalism, upending Wall Street retail brokerage and the mutual fund industry. Bogle's winning bet that the average market return would beat most active managers includes an important, if counter-intuitive lesson about success: the path to it does not always mean you have to spend more, or stretch. If Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle, who died this week at the age of 89, represented the pinnacle of American success, his success is one that includes a counter-intuitive lesson.

• Jack Bogle's last warning to the investment industry: "Don't forget the little guy you serve"

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• Jack Bogle feared this one thing most and it drove him to revolutionize investing with Vanguard

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'Radical savers' shred trader for backing Suze Orman on needing $5 million to retire

But one thing he said really rattled Reddit's “FIRE” board, where half a million subscribers gather to share their thoughts on the “financial independence, retire early” strategy that's become a hot-button topic for millennials. Here's what set them off: 'Suze Orman was criticized as being elitist and out-of-touch for suggesting that you might need $5 million to $10 million to retire at 35. But she's not wrong under her framework, which is that in retirement, you want to live well, not poorly.

5 ways to avoid becoming a failed retiree

Then we talked about community festivals where she could show her work and sell it. Most of the festivals required an entrance fee, so she did a lot of research and entered a couple, to try it out. She sold several paintings and even got a couple of custom orders.

The IRS Is Making it Easier to Avoid Tax Penalties This Year. Here's How

The IRS urged taxpayers last year to do a “paycheck checkup” to make sure they were withholding enough from their paychecks to satisfy their obligations under the new tax law. But on Wednesday, the agency acknowledged in effect that the changes to the tax code could be confusing and said it would relax the penalty for not withholding enough from paychecks or quarterly estimated payments in 2018. Last February, the IRS changed the guidance it issues employers pertaining to how much in taxes they should withhold from employees' paychecks.

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Kushner Evicting Times Square Tenant, Endangering Loan Payments

Lenders approved the termination of the lease for the tenant, Gulliver's Gate, at the end of last year, according to debt filings. Kushner Cos. -- owned by the family of Jared Kushner, the White House senior adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump -- is seeking tenants for the space, but “there have been no firm” letters of intent, according to the records. Any loss may affect Kushner Cos.' ability to keep up with debt payments on the Times Square property, one of the company's most valuable in the city.

Stocks are soaring on signs of a trade deal brewing, but ...

Is a trade war truce in the offing? Trade war stocks rally. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Carter Worth, Tim Seymour, Dan Nathan and Guy Adami.

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Disney is already losing over $1 billion in streaming, and its Netflix competitor has yet to launch

Disney's stake in Hulu and its ownership of BAMtech led to a loss of more than $1 billion in the latest fiscal year. Direct-to-consumer losses should continue to surge as Disney ramps up Disney+, its new streaming service. Disney DIS isn't launching its new streaming service until later this year, but investors are already learning the economic challenges of the business.

5 Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Consider

Because of all this, when it comes to finding artificial intelligence stocks, they are usually larger companies. Lithium Stocks to Buy Despite the Market's Irrationality OK then, which names are positioned to benefit? Well, let's take a look at five that stand out: Alphabet (GOOG) Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai refers to the company as “AI first.

Cramer's game plan: This week, forecasts are more important than earnings

CNBC's Jim Cramer looks ahead at a busy week of earnings reports that he says might drive investors crazy. Johnson & Johnson, Comcast and Starbucks will be among the companies issuing quarterly results. "I can't recall a time when the forecast will be more important, certainly much more important than the results," Cramer, host of "Mad Money," told viewers.

China slump squeezes workers, hammers consumer spending

The downturn is squeezing urban workers and entrepreneurs the ruling Communist Party is counting on to help transform China from a low-wage factory into a prosperous consumer market. Headline economic numbers still look healthy. Growth in 2019 is forecast at more than 6 percent, down only slightly from about 6.5 percent last year.

FedEx to take up to $575 million charge as it starts voluntary buyouts

FedEx Corp (FDX.N) said on Friday it could take as much as $575 million in charges as it began offering voluntary cash buyouts to certain U.S-based employees in a bid to reduce costs. The parcel company announced in December that it would be offering voluntary buyouts to ease pressure on profits that have been hit by troubles in its express delivery unit and the integration of European company TNT. FedEx had said that the vast majority of its buyout offers would be made to workers at the FedEx Express unit, which has 227,000 employees, and at FedEx Services, which employs 30,000 people.