Whether you’re shopping for holiday gifts, or gearing up to take a trip in the new year, it can be difficult to factor all your year-end expenses into your regular monthly budget. From housesitting to personal shopping, certain gigs are easier to start up or have the potential to earn more during the winter. Airbnb hosts, for example, earn an average of $924 per month, according to Travel + Leisure. Most housesitters charge $25-$45 per day, according to Housesitter.com. TutoringLast year, Care.c

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US weekly jobless claims total 203,000, vs 215,000 expectedFirst-time claims for state unemployment benefits were expected to total 215,000 in the most recent week, up slightly from the 213,000 claims reported for the previous week. CNBC’s Rick Santelli reports.

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France is experiencing one of its biggest strikes in decades as public sector workers protest against changes to the pension system. According to the French newspaper, Le Monde, more than 180 000 people are taking to the streets in 30 different parts of France. Prior to his election in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reform France’s pension system. Previous attempts to change the pension system have also been met with strong opposition from public sector workers. However, transport work

Expect more flows into European stocks: Hermes Investment ManagementEoin Murray of Hermes Investment Management says there’s a “reasonably strong” feeling that the worst is probably behind Europe for the time being.

Pokémon Go’s Evolution Event started today and now is the best time to grab any evolution items, like Sinnoh and Unova Stones. ET, special Field Research Tasks that reward evolution items will be able to be grabbed from PokéStops. Onix, Eevee, Roselia, and Burmy will also spawn more frequently in the wild and Lickitung, Scyther, Togetic, and Ralts will be featured in raids. To make the most of this event, grab as many Roselia, Ralts, Scyther, and Togetic as you can. Pokémon Go Evolution Event 20

Each of these threads has garnered hundreds of comments from seemingly enthusiastic fans clamoring for prints of new artwork. The idea of the meme is to test how bots use social media to swipe designs from artists to sell on companies’ own marketplaces, and to apply pressure to their businesses using outside forces. This has become a well-known fact among the art community on Twitter, and this new meme puts the theory to the test. But now these artists are fighting back against this system and u

The same description could apply to Mati Diop’s debut feature Atlantics, which uses the ocean to bind its stories together. Atlantics arrived on Netflix after picking up the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Souleiman sets sail for Europe with his fellow workers in search of better employment, without saying a word to Ada. Atlantics feels so earnest in part due to the grace with which Sane and Traoré (both first-timers) handle their changing characters. But these jarring elements r

Twenty-five years ago, PlayStation played an instrumental part in making 3D graphics the industry norm for video games. 3D graphics. PlayStation brought aboard the vast majority of third-party developers and helped usher in the first era of 3D video game consoles. This was helped in no small part by games on the PlayStation, such as innovative and influential 3D games like Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil. “We could make 3D games never seen before,” Yamada sa

The last big content update for GTA Online introduced the Diamond Casino, a new zone where players can gamble, purchase a luxurious penthouse, and accept new missions from a new cast of characters. Rockstar has announced a follow-up is coming to the Diamond Casino: a new heist coming in December. Heists in GTA Online are a set of lucrative missions that are tougher than your average job, but have a payout to match. There will also be a very handy Master Control Terminal, allowing players to mana

Riot Games will release new games that are part of the League of Legends universe but created by third-party developers under a new label called Riot Forge. Riot Forge will publish single-player games that expand the League of Legends lore “in different genres on various platforms,” with the help of other game developers. Riot itself is moving beyond the core League of Legends game experience with card game Legends of Runeterra, a fighting game, and a role-playing game, but it sounds like Riot F

Starting on Dec. 12, people who don’t own Fallout 76 will be able to play the game for free until Dec. 16. For those that do own Fallout 76, they’ll soon be able to score double XP and a chance to score some holiday-themed loot, both Christmas-y stuff and Halloween stuff. Next weekend’s free trial for Fallout 76 will arrive shortly after Update 16 for the online multiplayer Fallout game. Fallout 76 will get into the holiday spirit starting Dec. 12 with Holiday Scorched enemies, who will wear San

Cult-hit show Letterkenny is getting its eighth season, and it looks wild. The trailer shows the entire Letterkenny gang partying it up for “Day Beer Day,” presumably an event where everyone drinks beer during the day, only to be interrupted by Wayne. Katy, Wayne’s younger sister, is notably missing from the Day Beer Day party, and it just might be her. Letterkenny just got its seventh season in October, but we’re still thrilled to be getting another season so soon. Season eight will air Dec. 27

Google Stadia hasn’t had the smoothest launch, and the stream of avoidable mistakes keeps coming from Google’s new gaming platform. On Dec. 5, THQ Nordic and Airship Syndicate launched Darksiders Genesis on Google Stadia and strangely, the Stadia version costs $10 more than the version on PC. But Stadia doesn’t offer any kind of Pro discount for Darksiders Genesis. On Stadia, Genesis costs $39.99, but if you pre-ordered the game on Steam, you only had to pay $25.50 — nearly $15 dollars off the S

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon isn’t your average C-suite executive. Solomon also rides the New York City subway to work and prefers to fetch his own coffee at the office. You know, the mayor of New York [City, Bill de Blasio] can take the subway. Why can’t the CEO of Goldman Sachs?” According to Fortune, certain Goldman Sachs’ board members are unhappy with the idea Solomon on the subway.

SoulCycle co-founder Ruth Zukerman on Peloton’s holiday ad controversyRuth Zukerman, SoulCycle co-founder, joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss controversy surrounding a Peloton ad in which a woman receives a Peloton bike for Christmas.

Treasury Department sanctions Russian cybercriminal group, Evil Corp.CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports on new sanctions from the Treasury Department against a cybercriminal group out of Russia.

How a 26-year-old making $45,000 a year in DC spends his moneyVictor Yang, 26, lives in Washington, D.C., and earns $45,000 a year as a congressional staffer. This is an installment of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which profiles people around the world and details how they earn, spend and save their money.

Before Jennifer Aniston landed her breakout role as Rachel Green on NBC’s “Friends” at the age of 25, she had to deal with a lot of naysayers, including her own family. Well, let’s just see,” Aniston told People. In September, Aniston credited setting goals during “goddess circles” as key to her success. “I’m entering into what I feel is one of the most creatively fulfilling periods of my life,” Aniston told the Times. Despite 25 years of success, Aniston told People this past year taught her ho