Historically speaking, there’s been a small lift to stock-market portfolios at the end of the year — a phenomena that many in the financial industry call “the Santa Claus rally.” “The Santa Claus rally is when the market tends to do well over the last two weeks of the year,” he says. It does happen — not 100% of the time, but around 60% of the time,” Lambert says. Some years, investors get coal: Last year, for example, the S&P 500 dropped almost 20% by late December. But historically, Lambert sa

Hideo Kojima’s recent release, Death Stranding, has been met with a myriad of different reactions since its release in early November. Yet, many significant members within the video games industry expressed praise for the title, the team behind it, and Hideo Kojima for the ambition and direction of Death Stranding. advertisingNow, another major figure within the games industry has praised Death Stranding, this time being the director of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai. Overall, Sa

While both secured credit cards and unsecured credit cards have a lot in common, there are a handful of key differences, such as a security deposit. Below, CNBC Select breaks down the key differences and similarities between secured credit cards and unsecured credit cards. How secured credit cards workAfter you make the minimum security deposit, you can start using your secured card just like any other credit card. Secured credit cards vs. unsecured credit cardsTrying to decide between a secured

Share Tweet Email Copy Link CopiedPhil Spencer, the head of Xbox, has taken one of the first units of Microsoft’s upcoming Project Scarlett console home, according to a tweet shared Thursday. Microsoft first announced Project Scarlett earlier this year at its E3 press conference, teasing the console in a similar fashion to how the Xbox One X was originally announced as Project Scorpio in 2016. And it’s started….this week I brought my Project Scarlett console home and it’s become my primary conso

Though Infinity Ward just released a large update to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to roll out the Season 1 update to the game, the team has already followed it with Update 1.11. For the most part, Modern Warfare’s 1.11 patch seems mainly to be a patch to improve stability in certain areas. advertisingRELATED: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Battle Pass Price ConfirmedModern Warfare’s 1.10 patch totaled in at a whopping 20GB on PC and an almost equally massive 15GB on PS4. advertisingIn a similar ve

Two creators who have previously worked on the classic RPGs Legend of Mana and Mother 3 have released their new RPG Heroland on PC. Written by Nobuyuki Inoe with world creation by Nobuhiro Imagawa, Heroland follows closely in the footsteps of Mother 3 and Legends of Mana as a light-hearted, story-rich RPG with turn-based combat. Heroland takes place on a tropical theme park that offers visitors the ultimate RPG experience in real life. But with Heroland’s overwhelmingly bright and colourful exte

Amphibious sleuth Frog Detective is returning next week for his second snooping adventure. Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard will see the eponymous investigator searching for clues and interrogating critters after a mystery villain ruins a party. Like its predecessor, Frog Detective 2 is extremely short and low pressure. You can finish it in an hour, make some pals, have a wee chuckle and then you’re done. To solve this monstrous crime, Frog Detective will need to explore the Wa

It does, according to Nvidia, particularly when using a high-end gaming monitor paired with a fast graphics card. The GPU maker has been trying to drive this message home for several months now, and its latest study draws a correlation between higher framerates and better kill/death ratios. Have a look:(Image credit: Nvidia)The above graph plots data from a study Nvidia conducted earlier this year. In it, we can see that the K/D ratio is 90 percent better when playing at 180fps versus 60fps. The

AMD is pushing out a new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition driver release, version 19.12.1, and with it comes official support for the Radeon RX 5300M GPU for laptops. That’s the main order of business, though it does also address a couple of bugs related to its Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards. According to the release notes, the 19.12.1 driver release squashes a bug that was causing intermittent crashes to the desktop when playing The Outer Worlds. This only applies to RX 5700 series

For $14 on Steam, you can experience a new map, Livonia, which at 163 square kilometers is a bit smaller than Chernarus and may provide more frequent player encounters. There are bears in DayZ now, and not just in Livonia but also in the survival game’s original map, Chernarus. “This Eastern European terrain covers the southern Topolin-Nadbór region of the larger Polish-speaking country of Livonia,” read the Steam store page. I also worry a bit that since you need to buy the new map, it could fr

Cheap Star Wars Funko PopsImage 1 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 2 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 3 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 4 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 5 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 6 of 7 (Image credit: Funko) Image 7 of 7 (Image credit: Funko)The Star Wars Pops are among the best on offer at Walmart: you can get discounts on characters from every era of the franchise, ranging from the original trilogy to the newer movies and TV shows. Cheap Marvel Funko Pop dealsImage

According to the latest Steam hardware survey for November 2019, AMD processor usage is now at 20 percent—a massive jump considering where it was just two years ago. Looking back at processor usage via archives, it’s easy to see where the peaks in usage coincide with AMD releasing a new generation of Ryzen CPUs. The 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs released during this time period, which undoubtedly contributed to that sharp rise in percentage. And now, for the first time, AMD is closing the gap between it an

Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been out for nearly two years, and the Celebration Edition is here to, well, celebrate. On December 5, the Star Wars Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition will launch digitally on Xbox One, PS4, and PC, bringing with it the entire collection of customization content available since the game’s launch, including items from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker . You can buy the Celebration Edition for $24.99 from the Microsoft Store or PlayStation Store, or for $29.99 on Origin

The Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal rush is starting to subside, but a few decent sales are still popping up. If you’re in the market for a high-end PC, but you’d rather not build it yourself, one model from ABS with an RTX 2070 Super graphics card is on sale for $1,289.99. That makes it the cheapest model on Newegg right now with that GPU. The full specifications of this PC include an overclockable Intel Core i5-9600K processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB graphics card, 16GB of DDR4 RA

New monsters like Stygian Zinogre and Tempered Ruiner Nergigante are the headliners, but there are also some big changes coming to the Guiding Lands end-game grind, not to mention some extravagant in-game festivals. The Safi’jiiva armor set shown in this screenshot lines up with that theory, and suggests that the new black dragon is indeed an evolved species named Safi’jiiva. New monsters aside, the update coming on December 5 will also introduce two big Guiding Lands changes as a follow-up to C

Microsoft’s more affordable model of its next-gen Xbox, codenamed Lockhart, is still on the way alongside the company’s release of the Xbox Project Scarlett next year, confirms a new report from Kotaku. Lockhart will, however, boast a higher CPU than the PS4 and current models of the Xbox One, with Microsoft apparently targeting a 1440p resolution and 60 frames-per-second. Naturally, given its lack of a disc drive, the console will likely focus heavily on Microsoft’s Game Pass, Project xCloud, a

BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah is back at it again by posting a screenshot from Dragon Age 4. Today is officially Dragon Age Day and fans of the series set in the world of Thedas are expressing their love of all things Dragon Age. pic.twitter.com/LpioHFI6f9December 4, 2019Well, now we’ve seen a tiny square of Dragon Age 4. Recently all he did was post Dragon Age and that was enough to cause some excitement. I mean, I don’t know about you, but the mere mention of Dragon Age is always enou

韩服冬季发布会临近，100级版本也呼之欲出，阿拉德大陆出现裂缝，跟前几年大转移一样，也就是说，会迎来第二次大转移更新！之前的大转移，内容进行了大改，乌龟团本的横空出世，拯救了地下城。而这次100级版本，则是一个”坎”，决定着未来的命运。12.5韩服更新后，游戏内大转移的迹象越来越明显！ 魔界地区出现”爆炸”，整个泰波尔斯星球毁灭，其他的区域，都能感受到迹象，不同程度的出现裂缝，都昭示着不一样的变化。也就是说，这次为了100级版本，算是下

王思聪作为现如今可以是人尽皆知的人物，一直都是活跃在很多网友的视线中。不仅娱乐圈就连电竞圈都是享有很高的知名度，其中他还在电竞圈享有”LPL第一烬”的名号。同时又是作为IG战队的老板他的一言一行都是备受广大玩家关注着。而最近王思聪因为被列为失信执行名单引起了不少人的关注，之后因为他在直播打游戏的时候脾气变得更加的暴躁也是被人质疑是不是换上了类似于躁郁症之类的病。 近期王思聪因为被列为失信执行人所以很多网友对于他的关注度又是高了起来，毕竟