Jim Cramer: Stocks of companies with new access to China are worth buying into weakness”If the stocks of any of these companies with new access to China get hit, I think you need to be a buyer into weakness,” the “Mad Money” host said.

Morgan Stanley set to reportThe nation’s fourth-largest bank reports fourth quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Barclays is expecting Morgan Stanley to report earnings of $1.08 per share, compared to the 80 cents per share earned in the same quarter last year. Shares of Morgan Stanley have risen more than 24% in the last three months. Retail salesWe’ll get a read on the health of the U.S. consumer on Thursday when the Commerce Department releases December retail sales. Excluding autos,

The reason I am reaching out today is to let you know that I will be sending out a petition tomorrow requesting a base pay increase for the Sales and VPS teams. Therefore, we are requesting a 15% increase in base pay to bring us closer to a living wage. We look forward to working together to make a sustainable change in Tesla’s internal culture as well as a change in the world as a whole. Please join me in signing this petition and helping Tesla become sustainable not only in our products but ho

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stands with House managers prior to signing the two articles of impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump during an engrossment ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 15, 2020. Articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that the House of Representatives passed last month were officially transmitted to the Senate on Wednesday, paving the way for a trial to begin as early as next week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said h

Analysts also expect trade skirmishes to crop up elsewhere, and they expect the Trump administration could have Europe in its sights for its next round of tariffs. Stocks were higher Wednesday, as President Donald Trump signed the trade deal with Chinese officials shortly after noon East Coast time. As for the China deal, the U.S. also said it was removing the label of currency manipulator, slapped on China in August, after claims from the U.S. administration that China was intentionally weakeni

Apple on Wednesday said it has acquired Xnor.ai, an artificial intelligence software start-up. The company has previously used acquisitions to expand its bench of AI talent, as have other technology companies like Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” the company told CNBC in an email. Xnor spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research lab created by Microsoft c

The New York Times, which President Donald Trump often describes as “failing,” said in an investor release on Tuesday that 2019 was a record year for digital growth. The New York Times said it added 1 million net digital subscriptions in 2019, which is its highest annual growth for that figure since the company launched its digital model in 2011. The circumstances facing The New York Times Company when CEO and President Mark Thompson took over in November 2012 were bleak. Since then, The New Yor

NFL Hall-of-Famer Terrell Davis has one piece of money advice for newbie athletes scoring big multi-million contracts: “Write your own checks.” “Don’t have anybody writing your checks or paying your bills for you,” Davis tells CNBC Make It. Davis says he himself made the mistake of letting people write checks for him during the height of his career, and now he urges young players to keep track off their own finances. You can never get too busy to write your own checks or pay your own bills,” Dav

Here are some of the most common mental traps that hold us back from success — and how to overcome them:1. Emotional reasoningMistaking our emotions as evidence for the truth is one of the most common mental traps we fall into. Fallacy of fairnessIn the fallacy of fairness, a person believes that every situation should be determined by what is fair. Example: You’re bitter that your colleague got a promotion — and you didn’t. When engage in the fallacy of fairness, you’re more likely to wind up f

If you hit the $296 million Powerball jackpot in Wednesday night’s drawing, remember that good ol’ Uncle Sam will be celebrating alongside you. A woman fills out a ticket for the $700 million Powerball lottery draw at Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York. For Wednesday night’s $296 million jackpot drawing, the cash option — which most winners go with — is $201.6 million. The 24% federal withholding would reduce that amount by $48.4 million, leaving you with $153.2 million. That woul

Peter GriffithYou might have the know-how to strengthen your finances, yet odds are you’re still making bad decisions with your money. Three out of 4 people consider themselves to be financially savvy, although more than half have admitted to making poor money choices in the past year, according to a survey from KeyBank. “It’s one thing to know you’re financially savvy, but another to implement it on a day-to-day and month-to-month basis,” said Chenna Cotla, behavioral economist in KeyBank’s fin

These trends point to the continued rise of digital and card transactions, said Jason Thacker, head of U.S. deposits and consumer payments at TD Bank. An ACH debit payment is a type of electronic transaction that pulls money directly from a consumer’s checking account to pay for things like a mortgage bill. The total number of card transactions (including debit and credit) grew by 8.9% annually over the 2015 to 2018 period. While consumers used debit cards almost twice as often as credit cards i

People line up outside the Social Security Administration office in San Francisco. Getty ImagesIf you collect Social Security benefits, you’re probably already eagerly waiting to see what your cost-of-living adjustment will be next year. New, early estimates from The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group, point to a possible 1.5% COLA increase for 2021. Meanwhile, Social Security COLAs have averaged 1.4% in the past decade. How those adjustments are calculatedThe Social Security Adm

Spotify has made playlists and a podcast for dogs to listen to in their owners’ absence, after finding that nearly 74% of UK pet-owners play music for their animals. The Swedish audio-streaming business company said it has launched a podcast featuring soothing music, “dog-directed praise,” stories, and messages of affirmation and reassurance narrated by actors to alleviate stress for dogs who are home alone. Meanwhile, playlists aimed at pets offer tracks selected by algorithms to match pets’ ch

Steve Bannon said Wednesday he believes President Donald Trump will “drop the hammer” on technology companies if they don’t cooperate with investigators seeking information in the devices of criminal suspects. “If I were the guys at Apple, I would pay attention to President Trump’s tweets,” Bannon said in a “Squawk Box” interview on CNBC “I would treat his tweets like a papal bull.” The president slammed Apple on Tuesday, suggesting in a tweet that the tech giant should unlock password-protected

Thousands of health executives descended on San Francisco this week for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to pitch their companies, forge deals and discuss the future of the $3.5 trillion health sector. Here are some of the biggest themes so far:What is digital health? Some attendees felt the lack of a clear definition for “digital health” might be hurting the sector. Digital health is broadly considered the intersection of health and technology, but the term is so over-used and over-

“Jeopardy” contestant Ken Jennings visits the Build Series to discuss the television event “JEOPARDY! The Greatest of All Time” at Build Studio on January 06, 2020 in New York City. It’s official, Ken Jennings is the greatest “Jeopardy!” The final match came down to Holzhauer and Jennings in a Final Jeopardy question. Holzhauer seemed to take the loss in stride, tweeting a Scooby Doo joke at Jennings after the episode aired.

The main reason: Target showed strength in some of the areas that matter the most. “In other words, we don’t think the print is a result of anything systemic or structural.” “I don’t think anybody is ready to jump out the window in Minneapolis,” where Target is headquartered, Moody’s senior retail analyst Charlie O’Shea said. When you start looking at where Target has strength, that is where they need to be strong. Notably, Target saw continued strength in apparel, beauty, and food and beverage

Pelosi selected seven House Democrats to serve as impeachment managers, essentially acting as prosecutors during Trump’s Senate trial. Seven managers were also appointed during the 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, for instance, while there were 13 Republican managers from the House Judiciary Committee Republicans in Bill Clinton’s 1998 Senate trial. Here’s what to know about the House managers in Trump’s impeachment trial:Adam SchiffPelosi tapped the chairman of the House Intelligence C

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seen as the Democrat most likely to defeat President Donald Trump if nominated, according to an analysis of online betting market data by researchers at Standard Chartered Bank. “Sanders’ nomination probability has risen in online markets, but Warren’s decline may have matched or exceeded his move,” they wrote. Representatives for the Trump, Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg campaigns all either did not respond to or declined requests for comment