ATHENS, Ga. — In the nine years Paul Finebaum had been interviewing Kirby Smart, this was as animated as Finebaum had seen Smart. They were on set together last month on Georgia’s campus, a day before the Dawgs’ game against Tennessee. It was three days after the College Football Playoff committee had dropped Smart’s team out of the projected field, and Smart was not hiding his disgust.“He was great on the air. Off the air, he was out of this world. I mean he was genuinely angry,” Finebaum recalled last week. “I appreciated his candor. But it was a remarkable…
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Investors looking to get the biggest returns without taking outsized risks have a few options for next year, according to pros on Wall Street. Market strategists expect stocks to move higher in 2025, but anticipate a turbulent year, according to the CNBC Market Strategist Survey released Dec. 13. The S & P 500 is projected to end 2025 at 6,630, according to the average forecast in the poll. Meanwhile, bonds are heading into the new year with elevated yields. Schwab recently said it is also expecting a bumpy year for fixed income, but sees an opportunity to lock in returns.…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: KULR Technology Group — The space technology company skyrocketed more than 26% after it bought 217.18 bitcoin worth about $21 million. The cryptocurrency purchase was the first for the company since it announced a new bitcoin treasury initiative on Dec. 4, the day bitcoin hit the $100,000 level for the first time . KULR plans to allocate up to 90% of its surplus cash to bitcoin, borrowing a page from MicroStrategy’s playbook. Honda — U.S.-listed shares rallied 4%, continuing to advance after the automaker announced official merger talks earlier this week with…
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh makes a statement to the media after he was shouted down by opposition politicians in the lower house of Parliament, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Singh took to Twitter on Monday to defend himself against a coal scandal roiling the country, saying accusations his government lost the country huge amounts of money were baseless. India’s Parliament has been all but paralyzed since the national auditor released a report two weeks ago saying the saleManish SwarupManmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister who governed the South Asian country for two terms and liberalized…
Arizona State was picked to finish last in the 16-team Big 12. The Sun Devils are now meeting Texas in the Peach Bowl in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. The player who sparked that incredible run also epitomizes it. Cameron Skattebo — 1,568 rushing yards, 19 rushing touchdowns, 506 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns — went from high school graduate with no FBS offers to fifth-place finisher in the 2024 Heisman Trophy voting. The running back has gone from cult hero to folk hero, displaying an uncanny knack for breaking tackles and for blowing people’s minds. Leo Skattebo III (Cam’s father):…
Some of the stalwart stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are expected to have meager or even negative returns in the new year, according to Wall Street analysts. These are the Dow stocks with average price targets from Wall Street analysts that point to a gain of less than 5% over the next 12 months, according to the CNBC Pro screening tool . The list includes several of the biggest stocks in the Dow, including tech giant Apple . Wall Street analysts project the iPhone maker will actually decline 3.3% over the next 12 months. Apple still has a…
Before Mark Cuban ever hit the “woah” on TikTok with his daughter, the video-sharing app was Musical.ly and Cuban wanted to be an investor.”I remember when it was Musical.ly and I tried to invest… Oh my god, I loved it because I could just turn it on and there would be 15,000 people live immediately that I could talk to,” Cuban said of the livestreaming option on the now defunct video streaming app, in an interview with social media personality Jules Terpak last week.His bid for an investment in Musical.ly was unsuccessful, however, because the company wasn’t looking for more…
Happy holidays, and prepare for the greatest gift: tennis returns tomorrow, December 27.In the spirit of looking back on the previous season and remembering all the moments big and small that defined it, here is a compendium of tennis stories of all kinds from The Athletic’s tennis writers, Matt Futterman and Charlie Eccleshare, with a few guest appearances. This is not a “best of,” but rather a “remember when?” and a “did that really happen?” as well as an opportunity to revisit the stories you may have missed.Matt will hold up the front end of the year given Charlie’s joining…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 10, 2024. Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe “Dogs of the Dow” and the slightly less well-known “Dogs of the S&P” are stock-picking strategies focused on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500.At the start of each year, investors select the highest-yielding dividend stocks — usually the top 10 — allocate an equal amount of capital to each and rebalance annually by replacing stocks that no longer meet the criteria. This article is the first in a series of three covering trade ideas on…
Plenty of people would be happy to earn a six-figure salary. Though $100,000 may not go as far as it used to, it’s still a relatively high income for Americans. The median personal income for 2023 was just $50,310, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Still, personal preferences and local costs of living for necessities like rent, food and transportation make everyone’s monthly budget unique — even if they’re in a similar income bracket.Here’s how three different individuals, who were all 24 years old when CNBC Make It profiled them, earn and spend their six-figure incomes around the world. ‘Definitely much happier’ in…
