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A leading Wall Street firm predicts global interest rates could fall to three year lows this year — to about 1 percent. According to Medley Global Advisors’ Ben Emons, the scenario is becoming more likely because inflation is very subdued. “With all this shock that happened in the fourth quarter and energy prices falling quite

Each year in early May, tens of thousands of Warren Buffett disciples come to Omaha for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, featuring a marathon 6-hour question-and-answer session with Buffett and his business partner Charlie Munger. They cover a wide variety of topics, including how they make their investment decisions. They emphasize that you should buy a

If you want to invest in individual stocks, you have to be ready to do your homework, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on his show Thursday. The “Mad Money” host told a story from his childhood about how his father, “Pops,” began buying stocks of National Video through a tip that he received from his brother.

Deutsche Telekom forecast that its earnings would continue to grow in 2019 but by less than expected as Chief Executive Tim Hoettges looks to close a key U.S. merger, acquire spectrum and roll out 5G services. After a 5 percent rise in 2018 core profit, Europe’s leading mobile operator expects 2019 adjusted earnings before interest,

Freeport-McMoRan has struck gold. The miner’s shares surged on Tuesday in its fifth one-day rally of more than 5 percent since the beginning of the year. Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer, says he doesn’t see a strong fundamental picture but the technicals support another rally from here. “It doesn’t fit any of

Google unveiled an ambitious plan eight years ago to build a wind energy project in the Atlantic Ocean running all the way from New York to Virginia. That massive “underwater spine” has been slow to progress, but Google is moving ahead with its first water-based renewable energy project — it is just a little smaller

If you’ve stashed some cash in a savings account, this is your time to shine. Signs of rising inflation, which pushed the Fed into hiking rates beginning in 2015, are finally having a significant effect on the annual percentage yield banks pay consumers on their money. As a result of the increase, savings rates are

An influx of young investors are leading a charge of socially responsible and sustainable investing, funneling their money into investments and projects that serve the greater good. In financial circles, socially responsible investments (SRI) and funds geared toward environmentally, socially and governance-friendly (ESG) projects have grown in popularity with millennial investors. Those activities include avoiding

Investors can trust that Nvidia’s stock has bottomed following its upbeat earnings report for a few key reasons, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday after the chipmaker’s shares gained 1.82 percent. The first is CEO Jensen Huang’s own outlook for his industry, which he put quite simply on the post-earnings conference call: “The world needs more

PepsiCo will report fourth-quarter earnings before the bell Friday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, according to a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings: $1.49 per share Revenue: $19.52 billion Shares of rival Coca-Cola fell Thursday after the company gave weaker-than-expected earnings outlook for 2019, citing headwinds from currency, Fed rate hikes and changing tax

With all of the investors fretting about the trade war with China and the Federal Reserve’s plans for interest rates, what CNBC’s Jim Cramer is really worried about here is jeans. “Yep, I think the biggest threat to this bull market is denim,” he said Wednesday on “Mad Money” as stocks rose on hopes of

Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai told CNBC on Tuesday that the “structural issue” of the United States’ trade gap with China will reverse itself as the Chinese ramp up imports. The trade deficit will shrink once the Chinese government begins purchasing $40 trillion worth of goods as promised over the next 15 years, he said. Even

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is not short of macroeconomic worries, but one that he can’t quite get on board with is the worry that another U.S. recession is near. “Listen, I’m worried about many things: I don’t want another government shutdown, a dramatic increase in tariffs, the super-strong dollar that hurts our exports,” he said Monday

As bond yields fall on global growth fears, Wells Fargo is making some changes. This month, the firm cut both its year-end Federal Reserve interest rate hike forecast and bond yield targets. However, the firm’s global head of interest rate strategy said the decision has little to do with an economic slowdown abroad. “It boils

Technology investor Paul Meeks is no longer avoiding the group that made him famous on Wall Street. Meeks, who ran the world’s biggest tech fund for Merrill Lynch in the late 1990s and early 2000s, expects the tech-heavy Nasdaq to end the year at least 10 percent higher. “I’m starting to creep out of the

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ high-profile run-in with the publisher of the National Enquirer over a series of salacious photos seems to have rattled investors, CNBC’s Jim Cramer included. “It’s the last thing I want linger on,” the “Mad Money” host said on Friday. “But I’ve got to say I was surprised that the CEO of

CNBC’s Jim Cramer would buy shares of Cisco on Friday if stocks continue their sell-off, he told a caller on Thursday. “If you asked me which stock to buy if we have another sell-off tomorrow, I am going to say Cisco, because you know I’m trying to make that my biggest position because you’re a

After years of struggling to compete with lower-cost Chinese counterparts, European telecommunications companies Nokia and Ericsson stand to win big from the U.S.-China trade war, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued Wednesday. “These once-beleaguered companies now have a chance to win the race for 5G supremacy,” he said on “Mad Money.” “Their equipment might be more expensive

CNBC’s Jim Cramer has concluded that running a profitable, growing business in this market is kind of like walking a tightrope, with value investors who want to see cost-cutting on one side and growth investors who want to see spending on the other. “Keeping both groups happy is a real high-wire act — in all

NBC Sports’ Golf Channel is partnering with four-time major champion Rory McIlroy to debut a subscription service that will give customers one round of golf a month, more than 4,000 hours of instructional videos and discounts at resorts and clubs. GolfPass, which NBC is officially launching on Tuesday, will cost $9.99 per month or $99

The markets have surged into the new year with the S&P 500 Index posting its best January in more than three decades. Investor optimism of late has been fueled by a stronger-than-expected earnings season, and a Federal Reserve that is expected to pull back on plans to hike interest rates. The S&P 500 is now

If you win money in a Super Bowl bet on Sunday, remember while you’re celebrating that Uncle Sam can be a bit of a party crasher. No matter where you wager — whether at a casino, through a pool or fantasy league, or at your neighbor’s annual bash — the IRS expects you come to

Many market commentators will try to explain why the stock market kicked off 2019 with the best January in decades, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer stressed on Friday that the move wasn’t tied to historical patterns or the calendar. “You know why stocks had such a good start this year? For the same reason they had

Forget FANG — so far in 2019, the cloud kings are the technology sector’s real winners, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday after a strong, growth-filled earnings report from enterprise-facing cloud company ServiceNow. “These days, if you want performance, the cloud kings and their smaller heirs apparent, the cloud princes, are where it’s at,” Cramer said

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made the right choice in leaving interest rates unchanged and preaching patience — and it shouldn’t be seen as him “caving” to Wall Street, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “Don’t listen to the Fed watchers who claim that Powell caved to the stock market or the president,” Cramer said Wednesday after

Even though CNBC’s Jim Cramer has long been a fan of Nvidia, a top chipmaker that dragged stocks lower Monday with a major revenue forecast cut, he understood why its stock has lost so much value. For one, the announcement revealed some “obvious negatives,” Cramer said Tuesday on “Mad Money.” Chinese authorities have unexpectedly cracked

Chinese stocks, especially ones that are new to U.S. markets, may seem like appealing investments, but to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, most of them aren’t worth the risk. In 2018, 31 Chinese companies had initial public offerings on U.S. stock exchanges, up from 12 the year before. The 2018 deals raised about $8.5 billion in gross

Stocks may be on the brink of another correction. Despite 2019’s strong start, the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan believes the market remains in a danger zone, because there’s evidence economic growth is still decelerating. “The elephant in the room remains the cyclical slowdown. And, as long as that slowdown is in play… the

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch believes it’s premature to call an end to the market correction. Although stocks on Friday closed out 5 straight weeks of gains, Stephen Suttmeier, the firm’s chief equity technical strategist, is telling investors that stocks are still in the throes of a cyclical bear market. According to Suttmeier, the S&P 500

Investors looking to seize on the rise of over-the-top streaming services and increased cord-cutting should look no further than a few key stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday on “Mad Money.” While the devices and ecosystems that enable streaming — think Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Comcast, as well as smaller players like Roku — are