Month: January 2019

DAVOS, Switzerland – The elite financiers attending Davos are worried about the 70 percent tax rate on earnings above $10 million proposed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “It’s scary,” Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer for $265 billion Guggenheim Partners, said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
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Intel will report its fourth-quarter earnings after market close on Thursday. Executives will discuss the results with analysts at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here are the numbers to follow: Earnings: $1.22 per share as expected by analysts, excluding certain items, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $19.01 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. While the
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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
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Colgate-Palmolive forecast a surprise fall in 2019 profit on Friday, as the world’s largest toothpaste maker spent more on advertising, while battling higher commodity costs. The company’s share fell 3 percent to 60.4 before the bell. Colgate is spending more on advertising as it battles competition from brands such as Procter & Gamble’s Oral-B and
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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
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Investing in global health organizations aimed at increasing access to vaccines creates a 20-to-1 return in economic benefit, billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates told CNBC on Wednesday. Over the past two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated “a bit more than $10 billion” into mainly three groups: The Global Alliance
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Former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, who is launching a book tour next week, is reportedly giving serious consideration to running for president in 2020 as an independent candidate, The Atlantic reported on Saturday. With the field of contenders to challenge President Donald Trump growing daily, Schultz is set to give an interview on
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Rising competition weighed on analysts minds following Intel‘s dismal report after the bell Thursday. Wall Street largely believes the company’s sales shortfall is an Intel-specific problem and they remain bullish on the semiconductor industry as a whole. Shares were down 6 percent in premarket after the company also gave weak guidance and missed on revenue
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The bar is set low for Apple‘s earnings next Tuesday so Morgan Stanley says it’s a good time to buy the stock. “We believe the recent pullback is an attractive entry point given upcoming services launches and shares already pricing in extremely cautious iPhone replacement cycle and average selling price headwinds,” the bank’s analyst Katy
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With an ever-aging U.S. population and advances in medical care, health care professions top the list of in-demand jobs for 2019, according to a new report from jobs site CareerCast. The salaries for those positions depends largely on the education needed for a particular spot. For instance, the job with the most anticipated growth —
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer implored investors on Thursday not to let day-to-day market volatility frighten them out of buying shares of great long-term performers like pharmaceutical giant Merck. “Merck is exactly the kind of company that investors circle the wagons around” during difficult macroeconomic events like long-lived government shutdowns, Cramer said on “Mad Money” amid a
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