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It looks like Josh Allen is going to run away with the NFL MVP award (which might be unfair to two-time MVP Lamar Jackson, who is playing so well that he also deserves consideration), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more players who deserve a little attention as the season comes to a close.The Week 16 NFL Power Rankings will give it to them by recognizing a team MVP for all 32 clubs. We tried not to make it just a bunch of quarterbacks, but we acknowledge there ended up being a lot of quarterbacks.Last week: 2Sunday: Beat Pittsburgh Steelers…

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Containers at a shipping terminal in Yokohama, Japan on Oct. 18, 2021. Japan’s trade deficit surged in September as imports overwhelmed export growth.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets are set to open mixed on Wednesday, following losses on Wall Street that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumble for a ninth straight day.Investors in Asia will assess trade data out of Japan, which will be released later in the day, ahead of a Bank of Japan rate decision this week.The country’s exports are expected to have increased 2.8% in November year-over-year according to economists polled by Reuters. Imports are expected…

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An American flag is displayed on the outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 12, 2024 in New York City. David Dee Delgado | AFP | Getty ImagesCNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday suggested that investors can sometimes lose the markets’ big picture, and that it’s important to go back to the basic principle behind good investing.”Sometimes we forget what we are trying to do around here,” he said. “We’re looking to find good stocks at good prices and buy them. We want to sell bad stocks at any price and kick them out of our portfolio.”Investors can sometimes think…

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to reporters as jurors are released to begin deliberations for his criminal trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, NY on Wednesday, May 29, 2024.Jabin Botsford | ReutersAttorneys for Donald Trump told a New York judge that the president-elect’s criminal hush money trial was tainted by “grave juror misconduct” and that his guilty verdicts should be thrown out as a result.”The jury in this case was not anywhere near fair and impartial,” attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove told Judge Juan Merchan in a letter dated Dec. 3…

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“Howdy!” George Kittle says as he steps onto the podium on Nov. 24 in Green Bay, Wisc.It’s how he begins every news conference, and this time he seems disappointed when no one says howdy back.But it doesn’t seem like a howdy type of moment. The San Francisco 49ers have just lost 38-10 to the Packers, which has been interpreted as the death blow to their season. Everyone else is gloomy. Fred Warner calls the game “probably the worst I’ve been a part of.” Deebo Samuel Sr. doesn’t even talk to reporters afterward. The day is cold, the mood funereal.Except for…

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Six stocks in the S & P 500 have been inversely correlated to Nvidia’s share price moves over the past month, according to analysis by CNBC Pro. The U.S.-listed stocks are Kraft Heinz , State Street , Walgreens Boots Alliance , MasterCard , health care distributor Henry Schein and automotive parts retailer O’Reilly Automotive . It comes as Nvidia fell into correction territory this week, meaning it’s fallen over 10% from its closing high of $148.88 reached last month. CNBC Pro screened for stocks in the S & P 500 that have moved in the opposite direction to the U.S.…

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Fcafotodigital | E+ | Getty ImagesIf you’re eager to save more for retirement, it’s not too early to boost 401(k) plan contributions for 2025, financial experts say.For 2025, you can defer up to $23,500 into 401(k) plans, up from $23,000 in 2024. For workers age 50 and older, the 401(k) catch-up contribution remains at $7,500 for 2025.But there is a “super funding” opportunity for 401(k) catch-up contributions for a subset of savers, according to Tommy Lucas, a certified financial planner and enrolled agent at Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo in Orlando, Florida.More from Personal Finance:Why new retirees may need to rethink the…

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LAS VEGAS – As expected, the upcoming NBA All-Star Game in San Francisco will be a mini-tournament of three teams composed of the top 24 players in the league and the team who wins the Rising Stars Challenge.The new format, announced jointly on Tuesday by the NBA and National Basketball Players Association, will include three games — two semifinals and the championship — in which the winner is the team to reach 40 or more points first. There is a prize money pool of $1.8 million, with the champion team earning $125,000 per player. The NBA and NBPA announced today…

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