A trader, center, wears a Citigroup jacket while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stock markets are near record high levels and UBS strategists are predicting a continued slowdown in the economy, which the firm expects will pressure the S&P 500 until the middle of next year. So the firm gave clients a list of dividend stocks it believe will outperform in this environment. “To help investors navigate this uncertain environment, and to sort through the many ways of looking

NBA Hall-of-Famer and businessman Shaquille O’Neal has listed his Bell Canyon, California home for $2.5 million after buying it in February 2018 for $1.8 million, according to Compass, which holds the listing. The 5,217-square-foot home in a gated equestrian community outside Los Angeles (just a few miles from where Kanye and Kim Kardashian West live). It has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, sits on a 1-acre lot and has home owner’s association fees of $259 a month, according to the lis

But while the Giving Tuesday donations are helpful, experts say many organizations could use the support throughout the year. With that in mind, instead of simply giving a one-off gift, consider working donations into your regular monthly or weekly spending. “Charitable giving should be a consideration in any budget,” says Carol Fabbri, a certified financial planner and founder of Colorado-based Fair Advisors Institute. Here are six strategies to help you make your charitable giving a year-round

Inside Google founders’ garage office from 1998Check out the original Google garage in Menlo Park, California in this clip courtesy of Google.

A cashier places a bag of items in a customer’s shopping cart at a Target Corp. store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. As retail continues to evolve thanks to e-commerce, big box retailer Target is finally keeping up, according to Cowen. The firm named the retailer as a “best idea” for 2020, as Target is both “profitable” and “innovative.” “We continue to foresee an environment of accelerating bifurcation in retail, with TGT well positioned as a long-term winner,” said Cow

Free stock-trading start-up Robinhood just reached more than 10 million accounts, the company said Wednesday. The Silicon Valley start-up, mostly used by millennials to trade stocks and cryptocurrency, has grown rapidly from its one million subscribers in 2016 and six million accounts in October of 2018. Robinhood has attained its growth while disrupting the brokerage industry when it started offering stock trading for free in 2013. This fall, all of the major retail brokers followed suit and dr

Citi kept its sell rating on Tesla but raised its target price and said it saw improved free cash flow. Our 2019-20 EPS estimates rise reflecting the Q3 beat and expected Model Y pull-forward. We’re also introducing 2022E EPS of $13.33. Our price target rises to $222 from $191 on slight improvements to our probably-weighted terminal value approach. Our full bull case / moderate bull case / full bear base probabilities improve to 10/55/35 from prior 5/55/40, in order to reflect Tesla’s recently i

A trader, center, wears a Citigroup jacket while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stock markets are near record high levels and UBS strategists are predicting a continued slowdown in the economy, which the firm expects will pressure the S&P 500 until the middle of next year. So the firm gave clients a list of dividend stocks it believe will outperform in this environment. “To help investors navigate this uncertain environment, and to sort through the many ways of looking

Agriculture Sec. Perdue: Trump wants an enforceable, reliable China trade dealAgriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the latest on the U.S.-China trade negotiations and how it’s affecting the U.S. agriculture community.

Expedia CEO Okerstrom and CFO Pickerill will resign amid strategy disagreementExpedia announced Wednesday that CEO Mark Okerstrom and CFO Alan Pickerill will be stepping down from their roles at the company. CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” crew discuss.

In comments from the NATO summit, President Donald Trump said Wednesday trade talks are going well and he’ll see what happens. ET, investors look to the Institute for Supply Management’s November nonmanufacturing index to see if services are slipping like manufacturing. Sergey Brin, who started Google with Page in 1998, is stepping down as president of Alphabet and that role will be eliminated. Tuesday evening, several NATO leaders were caught in an unguarded exchange on camera apparently gossip

President Donald Trump and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leave the stage after family photo during the annual NATO heads of government summit at the Grove Hotel in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump had a “very productive” meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Britain on Wednesday, Turkey’s communications director said. Fahrettin Altun made the comment on Twitter and his office said the meeting lasted half an hou

U.K. bank NatWest has launched a trial of a payment fob that uses biometric fingerprint technology. In an announcement Wednesday, the bank said 250 customers would take part in the pilot, which will last three months. NatWest claim the fob is no bigger than a keyring and it features a small fingerprint reader. According to U.K. Finance’s UK Payment Markets 2019 report, the number of contactless payments in 2018 hit 7.4 billion, an increase of 31% from 2017. While there is interest surrounding th

Sterling surged to seven-month highs on Wednesday as investors raised their expectations for the ruling Conservative Party to win an outright majority, which could remove some of the political uncertainty that has weighed on the currency. Investors have welcomed the prospect of Britain avoiding another hung parliament. Polls have consistently given Johnson’s party a lead over the opposition Labour Party. While Johnson has vowed to take Britain out of the EU on Jan. 31, the Labour Party has said

An upcoming meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC allies could see the group deepen oil production curbs, energy analysts told CNBC, although an extension of existing cuts and an emphasis on stricter compliance is still seen as the more likely outcome. OPEC members will host a meeting in Vienna, Austria on Thursday to discuss the next phase of their oil production policy. The current deal, which runs through to March 2020, replaced a previous round of production cuts that began in January 2017. “Sau

LONDON — President Donald Trump criticized Justin Trudeau Wednesday, calling his Canadian counterpart “two-faced” after footage emerged of world leaders appearing to mock him. “He’s two-faced,” Trump said. The U.S. leader made the remark while taking questions from reporters alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 2019 NATO summit in London. A video surfaced on social media late Tuesday purporting to show Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and D

Job growth slowed to a crawl in November, with private payrolls increasing by just 67,000, according to an estimate Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics. “The job market is losing its shine,” Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, said in a statement. Trade war taking tollZandi added that impacts from the tariffs between the U.S. and China are being felt in the employment picture. “The slowdown is more significant than I would have thought, and I do think that goes to the trade w

Hours before the press conference was set to start, video emerged of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caught on a hot mic mocking Trump . The presser was scheduled to come after a series of bilateral meetings with NATO members, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. “We won’t be doing a press conference at the close of NATO because we did so many over the past two days. President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly canceled a press conference th

Coffee chaff, the husk of the bean that comes off during roasting, usually gets turned into garden mulch or charcoal — or thrown away. When heated and mixed with plastic and other additives, coffee chaff can be formed into pellets and then various other shapes. Ford is planning to use a chaff composite for interior car components and under the hood. The first auto component to be produced using the chaff will be headlamp housings. With help from Competitive Green Technologies, which processes th

Language-learning app Duolingo has opened up new opportunities for smartphone users. Duolingo, which offers the most-downloaded education app in the world, just raised $30 million in a Series F funding from Alphabet’s CapitalG late-stage growth venture fund, becoming the first Pittsburgh-based tech start-up valued at more than $1 billion. Duolingo has added to the growth from its core language-learning app with new products, including podcasts for Spanish and French learnings, and Duolingo Event