House Intelligence Committee releases impeachment inquiry report, accuses Trump of obstructionThe House Intelligence Committee has released its impeachment inquiry report. CNBC’s Ylan Mui reports on the 200 page document.

Job seekers line up to meet with recruiters during the Job Hunters Boot Camp in San Mateo, California. The pace of payrolls growth, already around the weakest of the decade-old recovery, could look even weaker once the numbers-crunchers get through counting. A slowing in job growth would be expected at this point, though there are still more than 7 million job openings against 5.9 million employment seekers, a gap that reflects slack and an ability to expand. “A slower pace of payroll growth wou

U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter arrives at court where he was expected to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from allegations that he and his wife misused campaign funds in San Diego, California, U.S., December 3, 2019. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court to a single felony count of misuse of campaign funds, Reuters reported. He and his wife were charged with 60 criminal counts of campaign finance violations in August 2018. They were under fire for al

Watch CNBC’s full interview with Amazon Web Services chief Andy JassyCNBC’s Jon Fortt sits down with Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy on adding three new products to the Amazon’s cloud division, including Outposts, Local Zones and WaveLength, which helps improve mobile speeds by cutting out a few steps

1 city for expats to move abroad for work, according to the annual Expat Insider survey by InterNations, an online resource group for expats around the world. More than 20,000 expat workers participated in the survey and represented 178 nationalities living in 187 countries or territories. For the best cities ranking, expats rated 25 elements of living abroad that measured quality of life, getting settled, work-life satisfaction, financial security and housing, and local cost of living. That’s c

A wild idea: Taking Facebook privatePerhaps no analyst is as willing to be provocative in discussing Facebook’s cash issues as Freeman, who rates the company’s stock a buy. But Mahaney projects that number to grow to $40 billion this year and a whopping $60 billion by 2021. Facebook can easily reduce its share count and build earnings per share, and share price through buybacks, she said. Even with rising investment, the company has generated about $17 billion in free cash flow over the last fou

One streaming stock is blowing the rest away this year. The stock came under pressure on Monday after Morgan Stanley downgraded to underweight on valuation concerns. Katie Stockton, founder of Fairlead Strategies, says the stock could see near-term pain until the long-term trend reasserts itself. “It’s a long-term uptrend for the stock. “It’s not impacting the long-term uptrend which you can really judge by the rising 200-day moving average.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump arrived in London for the two-day NATO leaders meeting reiterating that too many members of the world’s most powerful military alliance still aren’t paying enough. Trump has frequently dressed down NATO counterparts and threatened to reduce U.S. military support if allies do not increase spending. In London, Trump singled out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for not meeting the 2% of GDP spending goal set in 2014. “So we’re paying 4 to 4.3% when Germany’s payin

Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of the US Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of Central Security Services. Rogers discussed the multi-faceted problems facing the U.S. over China technology in an interview that aired Tuesday on the cybersecurity podcast Task Force 7 Radio . After World War II, Rogers said, “It was the West who developed the core technologies that powered this economic growth. They didn’t have the global economic impact or capabilities that we ha

President Donald Trump played down the stock market’s losses on Tuesday as “peanuts” when compared with the importance of striking a good deal with China and the gains since his election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average “was about 16,000 or 15,000 and now it’s almost at 30,000,” Trump said at the NATO summit in London. “If the stock market goes up or down — I don’t watch the stock market. I watch jobs. Today’s move is “peanuts compared to — we have picked up record numbers so that’s OK. That’s

Democrats on Tuesday publicly released a new report accusing President Donald Trump of soliciting Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election for his benefit and obstructing the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. “In pressuring President Zelensky to carry out his demand, President Trump withheld a White House meeting desperately sought by the Ukrainian President, and critical U.S. military assistance to fight Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine,” the report says. The report, wr

The market is now grappling with the likelihood of no trade deal, but the critical issue is tariffs. I asked UBS Art Cashin if traders would be satisfied with 1) no new tariffs on Dec. 15, 2) keeping additional tariffs, and 3) no deal going into the new year. If additional tariffs are put on Dec. 15, that is a different story: “Then there’s another sell-off. If they put on additional tariffs and he bumps them by 10% or 15%, a sell-off but nothing severe. “This could provide an opportunity for of

Elon Musk’s actions that landed him in a courtroom Tuesday are another example of how tech companies are increasingly having trouble controlling their founders, management expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld told CNBC. “We have boards that seem unable to direct genius founders,” Sonnenfeld said on “Squawk Box.” Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean at the Yale School of Management, spoke ahead of the Tesla CEO’s court appearance. The defamation case, Sonnenfeld said, shows “another one of these boards that

My local police department recently posted some holiday crime prevention tips to its website, which highlight, among other things, how to avoid having your packages stolen from your doorstep. As deliveries soar during the holiday season, packages left on doorsteps are easy targets for criminals. The New York Times reported on Monday that up to 90,000 packages are stolen or lost daily in New York City. But, as I’ve found in my own town, people still will run up to doorsteps and steal packages any

The home-sharing company had to comply on Sunday with strict new regulations in Boston that require hosts to register their listings with the city. The city’s crackdown on Airbnb listings comes amid a wave of similar laws proposed in cities around the world. Less than half of listings have appliedThe city has received 1,778 applications for registration, and so far approved 737, city officials said. The company had about 4,000 total listings in Boston just over a month ago, according to city off

Amazon is using next-generation 5G wireless networks to help businesses download data from the cloud faster. At launch, Amazon is partnering with Verizon to incorporate WaveLength technology into parts of its wireless network. Lower latency is one of the big benefits that’s expected to arrive with 5G networks. Amazon is launching WaveLength at a time when excitement is ramping up around 5G networks. In addition to WaveLength, AWS announced Local Zone, a new set of cloud-computing infrastructure

La Reverie, the six-acre estate on Palm Beach stretches over 70,000 square feet. HandoutHedge fund billionaire Steven Schonfeld and his wife bought a sprawling Palm Beach estate for $111 million, making it the most expensive home ever sold in Florida. La Reverie, the six-acre estate on Palm Beach stretches over 70,000 square feet. La Reverie, the six-acre estate on Palm Beach stretches over 70,000 square feet. Prices for luxury homes in Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Boca Raton were all up more

Sen. Kamala Harris suspended her presidential campaign Tuesday, after falling from the top tier of Democratic candidates and failing to resurrect a doomed fundraising operation. Earlier Tuesday, CNBC reported that Harris canceled a fundraising event in New York amid a flood of recent reports describing her campaign as chaotic. CNBC reported in October that donors were struggling to persuade their networks to write checks to her campaign. In some cases, many of her supporters have told the campai

Fashion mogul Diane von Furstenberg may be most famous for the iconic wrap dress she invented in the 1970s. Each day, von Furstenberg sends two emails that don’t directly benefit her but that help others. For example, the first email she sends in the morning is typically introducing two people who she thinks should be acquainted. To von Furstenberg, 72, founder of fashion label DVF, it’s important to take even small steps to help other people’s careers. Von Furstenberg started doing this about 1

TikTok sued in California for accusations of data transfer to ChinaA California college student as accused social media app TikTok of transferring private user data to servers in China despite the company’s assertions that it does not store data there. Sara Fischer, Axios media reporter, David McCabe, tech policy reporter at the New York Times, and Tom Farley, chairman and CEO of Far Point and former NYSE president, join “Squawk Box” to discuss.