The Stock Market Is Having Its Worst Year in a Decade. Here's What to Do Now, Depending on Your Age

For instance, an investor with 90% in stocks and 10% in bonds at the start of the financial crisis in 2008 would have been down more than 40% in March 2009, when the market bottomed out. But, assuming they avoided cashing out, they’d have broken even by mid-2011, just over three years later, according to data from Morningstar. By the start of this year, they’d have more than doubled their money.

1,800 companies left California in a year — with most bound for Texas

A record number of companies are leaving California for states with a better business climate, and a new report shows that Texas remains their No. 1 destination. What’s more, the study’s author – for the first time in his career – is openly urging California businesses to relocate out of state. Texas’ rank as the top destination for California companies is especially significant considering that the large majority of corporate relocations cross only one state line, said Joseph Vranich, president of Pennsylvania-based Spectrum Location Solutions LLC. “A lot of people don’t want to be more than one hour from other members of their family they might be leaving behind, or their good friends or their favorite country club — whatever it is,” Vranich said in an interview with the Dallas Business Journal.

40-year veteran of Wall Street with an knack for market timing calls a bottom in stocks

The stock market has reached a bottom following a tumultuous 10 weeks that's seen the S&P 500 in and out of correction territory, Raymond James' Jeff Saut says. The U.S. economy is not going to slow as much as expected and earnings will be strong next quarter, he adds. The stock market has reached a bottom following a tumultuous 10 weeks that's seen the S&P 500 in and out of correction territory, longtime strategist Jeff Saut told CNBC on Thursday.

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  ‘People are underinvested,’ and they’re going to miss out, warns Wall Street vet

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U.S. Leveraged Loan Funds Lose Cash at Fastest Pace Ever

U.S. leveraged loan funds saw $2.53 billion of net outflows in the week ended Dec. 12, the biggest decline on record, according to Lipper. Mutual funds saw a $1.82 billion net outflow, while ETFs lost $705 million, Lipper data show. Fund flows often trail secondary prices, which are at the lowest since October 2016, according to the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Price Index.

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Tencent 'a screaming buy' if not for China: Cramer

Jim Cramer breaks down Tencent Music's initial public offering and and says context is the biggest deterrent to buying shares.

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  China's Tencent Music debut strikes a chord with investors

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  Chinese streaming giant Tencent Music raises $1.1bn at bottom range of IPO target

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Ex-Porsche CEO Aims to Save Combustion Engine From Scrapheap

Using pulsed microwaves to ignite fuel rather than spark plugs or glow plugs, the engineers behind MWI Micro Wave Ignition AG say they can cut consumption of gasoline and diesel by as much as 30 percent, and emissions by as much as 80 percent, because the fuel burns at a lower temperature. Among its shareholders is Wendelin Wiedeking, the former chief executive officer of Porsche AG credited with reviving the iconic German sports-car maker. MWI has mandated Macquarie Capital to look for a buyer and international partner that can help to promote the new system and increase MWI’s financial firepower, according to people familiar with the matter.

Evidence of Apple switch ruled inadmissible in Qualcomm antitrust case

The Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Qualcomm's patent licensing and chip sale practices were anticompetitive and sought to preserve a monopoly on so-called premium LTE modem chips, which help mobile phones connect to wireless data network. At the hearing in San Jose, California, an attorney for the FTC said there are "still discussions going on" with Qualcomm about settling the case, but a Qualcomm attorney said there was "no news" about the status of the talks. Since March, Qualcomm has disclosed that Apple completely stopped using its modems in its newest iPhones and switched to chips from Intel Corp. Qualcomm has also broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for technology for the next generation of mobile data networks, with several phone makers already signing the deals.

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  Little-Known Chinese IP Firm Secures Qualcomm's iPhone Injunctions

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  U.S. tribunal to review ruling on Qualcomm request for iPhone ban

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These Are the Fastest Growing Jobs and Skills Gaps Nationwide

LinkedIn just published its U.S. Emerging Jobs Report for 2018, measuring the fastest growing jobs and skills nationwide. Banking off an economic boom, the takeaways from the professional social network’s latest report tout big numbers for wage growth matched by a strong job market. LinkedIn says the race to recruit highly-skilled talent is especially competitive going into 2019.

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  The Jobs and Skills Employers Are Looking For

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  This is the top emerging job of 2018

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Here's how much you need to earn to live in the Bay Area's most expensive neighborhoods

While realtors and economists are seeing some signs that the Bay Area's housing market is starting to cool, median home prices in the region are up year over year. In the Bay Area's ritziest neighborhoods, rising home prices means the income needed to afford those jumbo mortgages are sky-high these days. Business Times' research crunched the numbers on Bay Area ZIP codes to find which ones require the highest salaries to afford a median priced home.

10 Easy Ways to Make Extra Money in Retirement, According to a Business Coach

Do you want to make additional income in retirement? First though, a word of caution: If you’re already collecting Social Security, the amount you earn from these side jobs can potentially affect how much of your benefits are taxed. If your individual combined income is between $25,000 and $34,000, you may have to pay income tax on up to 50% of your benefits, whereas if your income is more than $34,000, then up to 85% of your benefits may be taxable.

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  3 Moves to Make if You Expect Social Security to Be Your Main Source of Retirement Income

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  5 Steps to Making Sure You're Ready to Retire

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Make these 2 tax moves in time to cut your tax bill

Saving for retirement is a good idea, of course, but if you time things right and do your homework, some of your nest egg could also do double duty as a tax shield. Here are two simple savings maneuvers that tax pros say could also lower your tax bill — if you make them in time. The IRS doesn't make you pay income tax now on earnings that go directly from your paycheck to a traditional 401(k) plan (typically you pay the taxes when you withdraw the money).

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  3 Reasons to Retire as Early as You Can

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  Investment Options That Can Help Millennials Shed Risk Aversion

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Robinhood's three percent interest rate comes with caveat...

CNBC markets reporter Kate Rooney sits down with "Power Lunch" to explain how Robinhood, the banking app disrupting the market, might be successful.

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  Pro-Crypto Trading App Robinhood Launches Checking & Savings Accounts

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  Robinhood’s 3% Interest Checking Is Just a Money-Market Fund

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Saudi Arabia Is Shipping 6,000 Tons of Shrimp a Week to China

The world’s largest oil exporter has shipped 6,000 tons of the crustaceans to China since last week, Ahmed Al-Bala’a, chief executive officer of the National Aquaculture Group, said in a statement. Saudi Arabia is testing the waters in China for shrimp as it seeks to reduce its reliance on oil and develop new industries and lines of business. Saudi shrimp exports to China should exceed 30,000 tons by the end of the year, said Al-Bala’a, whose closely held company operates a sprawling network of shrimp farms on the Red Sea coast.

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  Saudi Arabia to Target U.S. With Sharp Oil Export Cut, Sources Say

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Robinhood, the start-up upending stock trading, goes after banks with 3% savings accounts

Popular online stock-trading platform Robinhood is offering checkings and savings accounts with an interest rate that’s roughly thirty times higher than the national average. “Robinhood Checking & Savings” accounts have no fees or account minimums, building off of the company’s free stock-trading model that ushered in 6 million users and a $5.6 billion valuation in its five-year existence. The company is launching a new app on Thursday that will house its stock trading alongside the checking accounts.

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  Pro-Crypto Trading App Robinhood Launches Checking & Savings Accounts

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  Robinhood’s 3% Interest Checking Is Just a Money-Market Fund

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American Airlines 'service analysts' on flights upsetting some flight attendants

The world’s largest carrier appears to be concerned that frequent customers may be experiencing very different levels of service from flight to flight depending on the experience of the crew on board — something that could affect customers' decisions about whether to keep flying American. Furthermore, the appearance of the new service analyst on flights has rankled veteran American flight attendants who feel their presence is yet another way management is checking up on them. Flight attendants already were upset about new work rules introduced on Oct. 1 that many believe were unnecessarily punitive.

After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning

Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks. Over the past two months, Nvidia’s stock has dropped from a closing price of $289.36 on Oct. 1 to today’s opening of $148.42, a decline of 48.8%. It takes a lot for a company to lose nearly half its value in such a short period of time, but Nvidia is proving that an otherwise strong technology business can disappear in a blink of an eye.

Inside Huawei's Secret HQ, China Is Shaping the Future

Yet the mock-up room, called the "vertical industries exhibition hall," welcomes guests and imagines a future where companies and governments use Huawei’s cloud and AI to crunch data, spur sales and make cities see and hear everything. Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group, which trails networking and smartphones in sales, sells components and services for internet-connected devices, smart cities and cloud products. It will net more than $10 billion in revenue this year, about a 10th of the company’s overall total, Qiu Heng, the division’s chief marketing officer, said in an interview in November.

These Lowe’s stores are closing in the next three months

It has gained 4.4% year to date, while shares of rival Home Depot Inc. a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-lowes-stores-are-closing-in-the-next-three-months-2018-11-05? siteid=yhoof2" (HD) have lost 4.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average

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  Why Is Home Depot (HD) Down 3.2% Since Last Earnings Report?

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  Better Buy: Home Depot vs. Lowe's

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What we know so far about the $1B campus Apple is planning at Robinson Ranch

Like an Apple Inc. commercial, hundreds of employees crammed stairwells and against railings at the technology company’s North Austin office on Thursday to hear first-hand the news the company announced in the middle of the night. Austin is already home to the largest Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) office outside Cupertino, Calif. This expansion will significantly increase the importance of the Texas capital to the global operations of the second most-valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of $809.6 billion on Thursday afternoon. Site preparation will begin in 2019 on the new site, about a mile away from Apple existing campus at 5501 W. Parmer Lane, said Kristina Raspe, Apple's vice president of real estate.

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  Apple investing $1 billion in new Texas campus

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  Apple to open $1bn Austin campus despite ‘peak iPhone’ concerns

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