The U.S. saw inflation cool in 2024, but economists warn that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants could greatly affect prices.”Certainly the economic impacts are going to be felt,” said David J. Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. “There’s going to be supply chain issues. There’s going to be increases in prices, decreases in services.”Experts are concerned that deporting such a large number of undocumented immigrants at once could leave a hole in the labor force. A 2023 study in the Journal of Labor Economics found that 44,000 U.S.-born workers could…
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An exchange-traded fund provider is helping investors make more bets on Wall Street’s most profitable momentum trades.GraniteShares, which debuted its first installment of single-stock ETFs in 2022, now manages 20 of them. It includes the GraniteShares YieldBoost TSLA ETF (TSYY), which launched last month. The fund gives investors exposure to Tesla.”This is about more and more people taking charge of their own finances,” GraniteShares CEO William Rhind told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “They want to be able to actively manage that and maybe try and outperform… That’s where we see things like leverage, single stocks really playing.”He calls demand…
There is a bunch of stocks that are well positioned for upside in 2025, according to Bank of America. The firm said that companies like Amazon are just too attractive to ignore right now. CNBC Pro combed through Bank of America research to find buy-rated stocks to own in January and beyond. In addition to the e-commerce juggernaut, the names include Henry Schein, Crocs, Chewy and Wells Fargo. Crocs Shares of the shoe company are up more than 4% over the past year, and they have plenty more room to run, according to analyst Christopher Nardone. In a note to…
The wreckage of the Jeju Air aircraft that went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport lies near a concrete structure it crashed into, in Muan, South Korea, December 30, 2024. Kim Hong-Ji | ReutersThe two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday.South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month’s crash that killed 179 people.It happened about four minutes after the pilot of the airliner operated…
If you would like to follow The Athletic’s Australian Open coverage, click here and follow our tennis page. Are 5g of lead and a few bends of the knees going to win Carlos Alcaraz a career Grand Slam?Is Iga Swiatek going to make a move on Melbourne?Will the clock tick past midnight (and 1 a.m., and 2 a.m., and 3 a.m….) in Australia once again?The 2025 Australian Open promises to be a cracker. Here, The Athletic’s tennis writers, Matt Futterman and Charlie Eccleshare, chart some of the key storylines to follow over the next fortnight.GO DEEPERAustralian Open draw 2025: Djokovic’s luck runs out,…
It kills more people each year than car crashes, war or drugs do. This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks.But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke from these fires is emerging as a new and deadly pollution source, health experts say. By some estimates, wildfire smoke — which contains a mixture of hazardous air pollutants like particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and lead — already causes as many as 675,000 premature deaths a year worldwide, as well as a range of respiratory, heart and…
Shares of AppLovin , a mobile advertising technology company, surged in 2024 and many on Wall Street expect the record run to continue in the new year. AppLovin soared 713% last year, the best performance since it went public in the spring of 2021, as the Palo Alto-based company benefited from online advertising and artificial intelligence growth. Even after soaring to a $117 billion market value at Thursday’s close, Wall Street remains bullish on the company led by Adam Foroughi, with more than three-quarters of analysts holding a buy or overweight rating on the stock, according to FactSet. The average…
Living life without regrets is impossible, says bestselling author Daniel Pink.Regrets are a fundamental part of life, and instead of running from or avoiding them, you should optimize them — using your mistakes as opportunities to learn, grow and teach others, Pink recently told “The Oprah Podcast.””Everybody has regrets. It’s one of the most common emotions that human beings have,” said Pink, in a podcast episode that published last month. “And yet, we’ve been sold such a bill of goods about positivity and being positive all the time that when we feel regret, we think we’re the only one.”Pink combed through…
A bitcoin ATM in Miami. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBitcoin prices soared in 2024. But you may want to tread with caution before euphoria leads you on a hasty buying spree.Bitcoin and other crypto should generally account for just a sliver of investor portfolios — generally no more than 5% — due to its extreme volatility, according to financial experts.Some investors may be wise to stay away from it altogether, they said.”You’re not going to have the same size allocation in bitcoin as you would Nasdaq or the S&P 500,” said Ivory Johnson, a certified financial planner…
A flight engineer performs a test flight in a CAE Inc. 7000 Series Boeing Co. 737-800 flight simulator at a CAE facility in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019.Christinne Muschi | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCompany: CAE Inc (CAE)Business: CAE provides simulation training and critical operations support solutions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, the Oceania, Africa and the rest of the Americas. It operates through two segments: Civil Aviation, and Defense and Security. The Civil Aviation segment offers training solutions for flight, cabin, maintenance and ground personnel in commercial, business and helicopter aviation. It…