- S&P 5002,864.36+0.85%
- Dow 3025,877.33+0.77%
- Nasdaq7,785.72+1.08%
- Russell 20001,545.25+1.33%
- Crude Oil63.02-0.13%
- Gold1,274.60-0.21%
- Silver14.43-0.10%
- EUR/USD1.1167-0.0447%
- 10-Yr Bond2.4260+0.41%
- Vix14.95-8.34%
- GBP/USD1.2703-0.1969%
- USD/JPY110.4710+0.3552%
- BTC-USD8,083.49+1.07%
- FTSE 1007,328.92+0.25%
- Nikkei 22521,272.45-0.14%
- Reuters•19 minutes ago
Nordstrom first quarter results disappoint, cuts 2019 forecast
Nordstrom Inc on Tuesday cut its forecast for full-year sales and profit after reporting lackluster first-quarter results, blaming softer trends and "executional issues" related to its loyalty program, sending its shares down nearly 9%. The retailer, which sells everything from apparel and footwear to home decor, struggled to attract customers at both its full-price and off-price stores and said trends from the fourth quarter continued into the first quarter. "We had executional misses with our customers," the company's co-president Erik Nordstrom said.
- MoneyWise•6 hours ago
Suze Orman Says These Are The Biggest Money No-Nos
Best-selling author, TV host and personal finance guru Suze Orman has been inspiring Americans for decades to make better money moves and avoid serious financial mistakes. She'll be the first to tell you that what you don't do with your money may be even more important than what you do with it. Here are 22 major money don'ts — straight from the expert.
Reuters•19 hours agoAsian shares near four-month lows on Huawei fallout fears
Asian shares wobbled near four-month lows on Tuesday on mounting worries the White House's black-listing of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies could further inflame already tense relations between Washington and Beijing. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat in early trade but stayed close to a four-month low touched on Friday. It has fallen about 8% from a nine-month peak hit just over a month ago.
- CNBC Videos•yesterday
Billionaire to pay off all Morehouse graduating seniors' student loans
Billionaire Robert F. Smith, founder and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, announced he would pay off the student debt of the entire Class of 2019 at Morehouse College.
- Reuters•10 minutes ago
EMERGING MARKETS-Bovespa top gainer among Latam markets, FX firms
A Latin American stocks benchmark rose on Tuesday, boosted by strong gains in index heavyweight Brazil, and the region's currencies firmed broadly against the dollar as frosty U.S.-China ties marginally thawed. The United States late on Monday allowed Huawei Technologies Co to buy U.S.-made goods until Aug. 19 in order to maintain existing telecoms networks and provide software updates to its smartphones, which helped global risk appetite to tick upward after being battered in the previous session. MSCI's index of Latin American stocks rose 2.5%, while its Latin American currencies index gained 1%.
- Investopedia•33 minutes ago
2019 Stock Market Predictions From 3 Gurus
Byron Wien of The Blackstone Group is "optimistic," and Jeremy Siegel of The Wharton School expects "quite a good year," both of them envisioning gains of up to 15% for the S&P 500 in 2019. However, Jack Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, advises taking "a little extra caution." Meanwhile, the consensus view of market strategists on Wall Street is that the index will close 2019 at a new record high of 3,000, up by 19.7% from the 2018 close, per a CNBC survey.
Yahoo Finance•23 minutes agoCiti: These are 'the two scariest charts' on the economy right now
Both come from the NFIB's Small Business Economic Trends data. The two scariest charts for us to consider” are those highlighting the inverse correlation between the percentage of small businesses planning to increase employment versus the civilian unemployment rate, and the “drop-off in small business surveys regarding it being a good time to expand businesses,” Levkovich said. The former suggests the likelihood of a higher unemployment rate over the next 9 to 12 months, while the latter underscores a reduction in the number of small businesses planning to make expansions in the near-term.
Yahoo Finance•5 hours agoCharlie Munger explains the best career strategy 'for the great mass of humanity'
During the 2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting, Vice Chairman Charlie Munger shared advice on how most people should approach obtaining success in their careers. “I think the right strategy for the great mass of humanity is to specialize,” Munger said. While some companies tend to focus on investing in stocks that fall under the same sector, Berkshire Hathaway has shied away from that.
- Fox Business•21 hours ago
Mega Millions $367M jackpot carries substantial tax bill
An individual with a winning ticket is faced with two options – either take the money in the form of a lump sum or an annuity payment – which would be paid out over the course of about 30 years. In the case of the annuity payment – the less common option – a winner would receive one immediate payment and 29 consecutive ones. The amount paid increases by 5 percent each year, according to K. Eli Akhavan, partner and chair of the Private Client and Wealth Preservation Group at CKR Law.
- InvestorPlace•5 hours ago
Canopy Growth Stock Has to Overcome an Important Obstacle
At least in the current, early stages of the legal marijuana sector, Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC) is the clear leader. Canopy Growth stock has by far the highest market capitalization among marijuana stocks, and Canopy has the largest peak production capabilities.As a result, the CGC stock price is somewhat of a weather vane for investor sentiment towards the cannabis sector more broadly. That's good news, and bad news, for CGC stock.
- USA TODAY•yesterday
Which states have the highest and lowest property taxes?
How much you pay in property taxes often comes down to which side of a county, city or district line you're on. And if you're a homebuyer this spring, it's another important factor to consider while you house hunt. Property taxes largely fund public schools but also other local services like roads and police.
- Bloomberg•22 hours ago
Ex-Credit Suisse Banker Pleads Guilty in $2 Billion Mozambique Scam
An ex-Credit Suisse Group AG banker became the first person to plead guilty in what U.S. prosecutors called a $2 billion fraud and money-laundering scam tied to loans to Mozambique that were used to pay bribes and kickbacks. Detelina Subeva, 37, a former vice president in the bank's global financing unit, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of conspiracy to launder funds. The U.S. agreed to drop three other conspiracy charges against Subeva, who's one of three Credit Suisse bankers accused of working with Mozambique's ex-finance minister in a secret kickback scheme.
- CNBC Videos•23 hours ago
How the Winklevoss twins made billions from bitcoin
Ben Mezrich joins CNBC's "Closing Bell" to discuss his new book "Bitcoin Billionaires."
- American City Business Journals•2 hours ago
Analyst: Apple tried to buy Tesla in 2013 for $240 per share
Apple Inc. quietly explored buying Tesla Inc. in 2013 for $240 per share, but the deal fell apart after the Cupertino-based company insisted that Tesla CEO Elon Musk step away from day-to-day operations, Roth Capital Partners analyst Craig Irwin told CNBC. Apple bid for Tesla.
- Investopedia•yesterday
What Is a Silver Certificate Dollar Bill Worth Today? (SLW, SVM)
A silver certificate dollar bill is representative of a unique piece of history. It no longer carries any monetary value as an exchange for silver, yet collectors still seek out the print. Its history dates back to the 1860s, and the certificate is a unique historical artifact representing a time period when the monetary structure of the United States was changing.
- Fortune•4 hours ago
What Killed Jamie Oliver's Restaurant Chain?
Following a couple years of serious financial difficulties, the restaurant empire of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver may have reached the end of its road—the latest victim of an ongoing, partly Brexit-related shakeout in the U.K.'s casual dining sector. The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group said Tuesday that it had gone into administration, with KPMG's insolvency team taking over. Most of its locations are closing immediately, taking more than 1,000 jobs with them.
- Fox Business•yesterday
Will the IRS tax Robert F. Smith's gift to Morehouse grads?
Billionaire Robert F. Smith made the 2019 class of Morehouse College graduates very happy over the weekend when he pledged to pay off their student debt burdens. Smith told nearly 400 graduates of the historically black, all-male college in Atlanta that he would pay off those loan obligations so they were free to pursue their next chapters – a gift estimated to be worth $40 million. “The lender did not forgive the debt, so there is no cancellation of indebtedness income,” Bill Smith, Managing Director at CBIZ MHM's National Tax Office, told FOX Business.
- American City Business Journals•3 hours ago
Forbes: Nashville is home to four of the world's biggest public companies
Football fans know that Nashville is home to the Titans of the National Football League, but according to a recent Forbes report, several titans of the business world also call Music City home. Forbes has released its 2019 Forbes Global 2000 — a list of the 2,000 largest public companies in the world — and four Middle Tennessee-based companies made the cut, led by HCA Healthcare Inc. at No.
- Bloomberg•4 hours ago
Beyond Meat Wipeout Called by Kazakh Who Nailed Facebook IPO
A 30-year-old stock analyst, he plies his trade in Kazakhstan, where he advises investors about local companies and initial public offerings in the U.S. Beyond Meat, after all, is the hottest IPO the U.S. market has seen in more than a decade, having more than tripled since its May 1 debut. Back in 2012, Abdikarimov came out with an aggressively bearish call on Facebook Inc. before its IPO, setting the lowest target of anyone surveyed by Bloomberg and issuing a sell recommendation after shares started trading.
- Reuters•36 minutes ago
China not signing deals to buy U.S. crude oil - Enterprise CEO
Chinese companies looking to sign long-term agreements to buy crude oil from U.S. oil exporters have virtually disappeared, the chief executive of Enterprise Products Partners LP said on Tuesday. The United States and China have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter trade dispute for nearly a year, and it escalated recently with the U.S. imposition of 25% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. The trade war has all but shut down shipments of U.S. crude to China, and it is unlikely Chinese buyers will sign long-term offtake agreements with U.S. crude exporters right now, Enterprise CEO Jim Teague said on the sidelines of a Houston energy industry conference.
- Bloomberg•11 hours ago
Blue States Warned of a SALT Apocalypse. It Hasn't Happened
New York, in fact, saw revenue rise $3.7 billion in April from a year earlier, thanks to a shift in timing of taxpayer payments, a stock market that rallied through much of 2018 and a decade-long economic expansion that's pushed national unemployment to a 50-year low. Similar windfalls arrived in New Jersey, California and Illinois -- states that, like New York, had warned of dire consequences from the law. In all, about 64% of American households paid less in individual income tax for 2018 than they would have had the Tax Cut and Jobs Act not become law, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
USA TODAY•4 hours ago3 tips to protect your investments, whether you manage your money or hire an adviser
But I quickly realized that because of the hefty investment management fee we were paying the adviser, as well as the underlying fees (often hidden) in the funds the advisor chose, we were spending a great deal of money to achieve below-market returns. I asked for a full accounting of our total fees paid. Our adviser seemed astonished by my request and exclaimed: “No one has ever asked us for that before!
- Investing.com•5 hours ago
Gold Dips Amid's Dollar Triumph as a Trade War Hedge
The dollar rose, too, as some investors twinned the greenback with equities in their play on the trade war. Spot gold, reflective of trades in bullion, traded at $1,274.45 per ounce by 3:30 PM ET (19:30 GMT), down $3.33, or 0.3%, on the day. gold futures for June delivery, traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, settled down $4.10, or 0.3%, at $1,273.20 per ounce.
- Fox Business•3 hours ago
GM, Ford are shrinking their workforces. Here's why.
Underscoring the announcements are shifting production lines at the two largest U.S. auto companies, as consumer interest pivots from passenger cars to sports utility vehicles and pickups. Stricter emissions requirements in countries like China and those within the European Union, coupled with a rising interest in emissions-free vehicles, are accelerating a pivot towards electric cars. GM, Ford and others are also pouring millions into autonomous vehicles, banking on the hope that the technology will define the future of automotive production.
Reuters•52 minutes agoU.S. eases curbs on Huawei; founder says clampdown underestimates Chinese firm
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has temporarily eased trade restrictions on China's Huawei to minimize disruption for its customers, a move the founder of the world's largest telecoms equipment maker said meant little because it was already prepared for U.S. action. The U.S. Commerce Department blocked Huawei Technologies from buying U.S. goods last week, a major escalation in the trade war between the world's two top economies, saying the firm was involved in activities contrary to national security. The two countries increased import tariffs on each other's goods over the past two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump said China had reneged on earlier commitments made during months of negotiations.
