It’s September – and that means it’s prime time to think about maximizing after-tax returns as the year winds down. Even after investors’ bout with volatility in the late summer, it’s been a strong year for stocks overall, with the S & P 500 up nearly 18% in 2024. Further, even as exuberance around artificial intelligence has driven outsized returns for Nvidia and the tech sector, other areas of the market have perked up: Financials are toting a nearly 20% gain in 2024, while consumer staples are up about 18%. Of course, there may be a price to pay for…
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United Automobile Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesDETROIT — The United Auto Workers union on Monday said it had filed federal unfair labor practice charges against Stellantis for allegedly violating contract terms and attempting to move production of the Dodge Durango out of the U.S.The charges are the latest action the union has taken against Stellantis, which has drawn the ire of UAW leaders for production cuts, layoffs and other actions since the…
Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co., on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesCameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the biggest individual crypto donors this election cycle, giving a combined $10.1 million, or slightly over $5 million each, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by crypto market and blockchain analyst James Delmore and independently verified by CNBC.With 50 days to go until the November general election, political donations from, or in support…
The party line for the Los Angeles Dodgers is that there isn’t one way to win a World Series. The 2023 Texas Rangers became champions pitching Max Scherzer at less than full strength in Game 3 and Andrew Heaney in Game 4. The 2021 Atlanta Braves did it going with bullpen games in Games 4 and 5.The Dodgers, even without Tyler Glasnow and all of their other injured starting pitchers, figure that Jack Flaherty and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and whoever else they start in the postseason will be sufficient, and that their offense, defense and bullpen might be good enough for…
As investors gear up for this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, CNBC Pro found stocks that have historically done well when rates are cut without a recessionary environment. Fed funds futures have fully priced in that the central bank will lower interest rates, according to CME’s FedWatch tool . The question now is how big that decrease will be Despite me concerns about slowdowns in consumer spending and the white-collar job market, the economy has held up through this monetary policy tightening cycle. Many now expect the Fed will achieve the coveted “soft landing” outcome, which means inflation is curbed without…
Sergio Mendoza Hochmann | Moment | Getty ImagesMany investors unknowingly make a costly mistake when rolling their money from a 401(k) plan to an individual retirement account: leaving their money in cash.Rollovers from a workplace retirement plan to an IRA are common after reaching certain milestones like changing jobs or retiring. About 5.7 million people rolled a total $618 billion to IRAs in 2020, according to most recent IRS data.However, many investors who move their money to an IRA park those funds in cash for months or years instead of investing it — a move that causes their savings to…
A long-awaited interest rate cut seems all but certain to happen this week, but homebuilder stocks have been climbing in anticipation of this moment since October 2023, when the Federal Reserve signaled the hikes had come to an end. That leaves the group with little room for error, according to RBC Capital Markets. Analyst Mike Dahl sees the stocks “priced for perfection” as industry fundamentals remain choppy underneath the surface. Stocks in the firm’s coverage universe have “significantly front-loaded expected rate cut benefits, well in excess of prior fed cycles,” he said. Despite that, Dahl expects Toll Brothers , Taylor…
Apple is no longer the growth company it once was despite still being a great income generator, according to New York University’s Aswath Damodaran. “Apple has returned more than $600 billion in cash over the last decade, which makes it the greatest cash machine in history,” Damodaran told CNBC’s ” The Exchange ” on Monday. “So I like the company as a cash machine, but not as a growth engine.” Apple shares slid Monday following reports of softer demand for the tech giant’s new iPhone 16 model, after first-weekend orders for the phone unveiled just last week were shown to…
Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle shares surged more than 6% on Monday, continuing their recently rally and propelling chairman Larry Ellison to become the world’s second-richest person, snatching the title from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Since the close of trading Friday, Ellison’s net worth has jumped $11.7 billion to reach $209 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list. Bezos, who had been the second-richest person on and off since 2016, is worth $202 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk…
One penalty, 25 fouls, countless blasts of the referee’s whistle and 14 yellow cards… behold the worst-behaved game in Premier League history.Chelsea players received eight bookings and Bournemouth six at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday, setting a record for cautions, under the stewardship of match official Anthony Taylor.The previous highest number of yellow cards in a match was 12 when Chelsea played London rivals Tottenham in 2016, and the same number for Wolves against Newcastle in 2010.Earlier today (Sunday), it briefly looked like yesterday’s record might last less than 24 hours, when seven yellows were shown in the first 45…
