This is How Much Money You Should Have in Stocks — at Every Age

The solution: Invest just a little to get started. While setting aside money may be hard, it’s easier than ever to get in the market. Over the past decade, more and more 401(k)s have begun auto-enrolling participants.

Precious Metals Trade Upwards On Equity Rout Amid Subdued USD Ahead of US FOMC Update

Gold prices were steady having hit weekly high earlier today, ahead of a key U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, as speculation that signs of economic turbulence may prompt the central bank to put brakes soon on its monetary tightening cycle kept the dollar under pressure. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to raise interest rates at its two-day meeting starting later in the day, but the focus will be on its outlook for 2019 as macro data from the US so far hints at a possible pause in a rate hike for 2019 over concerns of an economic slowdown.

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When To Buy Growth Stocks: How Pyramiding Up Can Be As Easy As A Cup Of Coffee

For example, if you use $10,000 to buy 200 shares of a $50 stock, all of your initial investment is at risk. If the stock falls 8% and you adhere to the golden rule of investing, you'd lose $800. If you started with half of a $10,000 position, or $5,000, you'd lose less if you were forced to cut losses at 8%.

Suze Orman: Here's how much money you should be saving for retirement

When that fear sets in, "you become totally hopeless," Orman says. For some, doing your best means making regular contributions that are matched by your employer: "If your corporation matches your contributions to your retirement accounts, you better be doing that," Orman says, because that's essentially free money. If you're looking for a more precise guideline, retirement-plan provider Fidelity Investments suggests you have 10 times your final salary in savings if you want to retire by age 67.

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General Electric Files Confidentially for Health IPO

The industrial conglomerate is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley on the planned listing, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the details aren’t public. “As we announced in June, as an independent global health-care business, we will have greater flexibility to pursue future growth opportunities, react quickly to changes in the industry and invest in innovation,” GE said in an emailed statement. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan declined to comment.

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Pay off that debt before you retire

Four in 10 retirees say paying off debt is a current financial priority, according to a new survey from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. Among those with mortgage debt, 9 percent owe more than $100,000. Taking steps to reduce and manage debt ahead of retirement can lessen the burden, advisors say.

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  Why $1M Might Not Be Enough for My Retirement Dreams (or Yours)

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How to deal with market volatility if you’re retiring soon

For investors close to retirement who do have money in the market, Slott urges caution. Overreacting to a declining market can put investors into situation known as a sequence-of-returns risk. If you’re pulling out money while the market is declining, you need to make a lot more money just to get back to even at double the rate and double the risk,” he says.

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  Does The Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) Share Price Tend To Follow The Market?

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  What Kind Of Share Price Volatility Should You Expect For Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE:FC)?

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I was wrong on the sell-off, but this bull market isn't d...

Joseph Zidle, Blackstone, talks to the traders about why he's still bullish on the market. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Karen Finerman, Dan Nathan and Guy Adami.

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Forget Drones. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Needs Lots of Delivery Guys

High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans to leave packages on doorsteps just like the milk man, postal worker, UPS guy and pizza dude before them. Bezos this summer issued a call-to-arms to aspiring entrepreneurs, offering them a chance to earn $300,000 a year by starting their own businesses making Amazon deliveries. All for as little as $10,000 up front, far less than the $250,000 it takes to open a fast-food franchise like McDonald’s or the $1 million required to buy a typical FedEx delivery business.

Cramer says stocks are 'really oversold' after markets fell to a new low for the year

CNBC's Jim Cramer argues stocks are "really oversold" after markets fell to a new low for the year. "There are things that have come down so much," he says, as the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq were bouncing in Tuesday trading. The "Mad Money" said Monday the market sell off has gone beyond concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth and the Fed.

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Say good-bye to these tax deductions

Year-end planning has a whole new look now that some popular tax deductions have gone away. Here's a look at the tax breaks that are capped or eliminated altogether from your 2018 return. Year-end planning has a whole new look now that a few popular tax deductions have gone away.

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  How your finances will change in 2019

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  Despite new tax laws, wealthy may give more to charities this year: Survey

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Warren Buffett suggests you read this 19th century poem when the market is tanking

The stock market has had a volatile year, and it's not over yet: The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 520 points on Monday and the S&P 500 fell 2.1 percent. During times of volatility, seasoned investor Warren Buffett says it's best to stay calm and stick to the basics, meaning, buy-and-hold for the long term. Market downturns are inevitable, Buffett pointed out, using his own company as an example: "Berkshire, itself, provides some vivid examples of how price randomness in the short term can obscure long-term growth in value.

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  Was Warren Buffett Too Optimistic about US-China Relations?

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  An Apple a Quarter Might Not Keep Berkshire Healthy

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How an American Is Trying to Rescue a $100 Billion Gold Mining Company

John Thornton is a Goldman Sachs alumnus educated at Yale, Harvard and Oxford. Mark Bristow is a South African geologist and big-game hunter. Together, this corporate odd couple has a plan to turn around the lagging fortunes of the world’s largest gold-mining company, whose shares are down 67 percent from their high in 2010.

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Jim Cramer zooms through his responses to callers' stock questions, including one on whether investors should hold onto shares of a declining industrial name.

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  Cramer Remix: Johnson & Johnson has to stop dropping for the market to head higher

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Glaxo-Pfizer Deal Creates Biggest Over-the-Counter Drug Supplier

Glaxo will have a 68 percent controlling stake in the new entity, with combined sales of $12.7 billion and led by Brian McNamara, the CEO of the U.K. company’s consumer arm. The deal lets Pfizer exit a business after a yearlong sale process failed to find a buyer. The transaction creates the world’s biggest supplier of over-the-counter medicines with brands of painkillers such as Advil and Panadol and marks a shift from Glaxo Chief Executive Officer Emma Walmsley’s previously stated strategy of keeping the steadily performing consumer and vaccine businesses under the same roof as the more volatile pharma operations.

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Oracle sees strong third quarter on cloud strength, share rise

Revenue at its cloud services and license support unit, its biggest, rose 2.7 percent to $6.64 billion and beat analysts' estimate, as more companies shifted to cloud computing from the traditional on-premise database model to cut costs. Oracle's in June created a new revenue reporting structure that merged its cloud and software license businesses, which analysts have said gives little insight into the standalone performance of its cloud unit. Oracle is a late entrant to the rapidly growing cloud-based software business, but has aggressively stepped up its efforts to catch up with rivals such as Workday Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc.

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Samsung's 5G Network Grab Gets Boost With Huawei, ZTE Under Fire

Mounting concerns in Europe and elsewhere about letting China’s ZTE Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co. provide vital components for fifth-generation cellular networks have coincided with Samsung’s ambition to capture 20 percent of the global market by 2020. In the U.S., where Chinese vendors are already banned, Samsung has won deals for 5G gear from three of four major carriers. “There are certainly concerns that are spreading beyond the U.S. markets into areas where those vendors may have greater share or more customer wins with large operators,” Alok Shah, a vice president of networks strategy at Samsung, said of the company’s Chinese rivals in a phone interview.

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  AT&T Launches 5G Network In 12 Cities

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'The only way is down': Oil's slump could get much worse amid oversupply concerns, analysts say

The latest wave of energy market selling comes amid reports of swelling inventories and forecasts of record U.S. and Russian output. Heightened worries of a possible economic slowdown in 2019 have also added downward pressure to the value of a barrel of oil. Brent crude fell as much as 4 percent to as low as $57.20 a barrel on Tuesday, on track to register its third consecutive session of declines.

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  Oil drops over 5 percent on economic slowdown fears, supply glut

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  Oil dives on fears of glut, global economic slowdown

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Trump Tries to Halt Subpoenas for Tax Returns and Revenue Information in Anti-Corruption Case

The Justice Department asked an appeals court Dec. 17 to halt an anti-corruption lawsuit against President Donald Trump before tax returns and financial documents from Trump-connected businesses and people have to be provided under subpoena. Thirty-eight subpoenas have been sent so far to Trump associates and some federal officials. The trial court judge previously ruled that the case brought by the attorneys general of Delaware and Washington, D.C. could proceed, and authorized subpoenas that would give the plaintiffs insight into the financial operations of the Trump Organization, which operates a major hotel in D.C. that receives bookings from foreign officials and governments.

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  DC Circuit Delivers Blow to Company Fighting Apparent Mueller Subpoena

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How to answer GM CEO Mary Barra's 3 favorite job interview questions

Hiring managers asking this type of question are often looking to see how quickly you respond, said Amanda Augustine, a career advice expert for TopResume . Stalling on an answer, said Augustine, could be a red flag that you're not accustomed to working collaboratively or that you're unable to "play nice" with peers. This question can also gauge your level of self-awareness, a critical leadership skill said Augustine, and will require some self-reflection.

The $7.9 Trillion Pile of Negative-Yielding Debt Is Growing Fast

Only two months ago, speculation was rife that the Bank of Japan would have to step in to stop yields from rising. Bonds are back in demand after a sea change in sentiment swept financial markets in recent weeks as the outlook for growth decisively worsened. “I expect the global economy to be substantially worse in 2019 than this year,’’ said Akira Takei, global fixed income manager in Tokyo at Asset Management One Co., which oversees the equivalent of $500 billion.