Shares of Tesla hit $500 per share Monday for the first time, and trading history for Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker suggests that the stock market run can continue. The rally began in October when Elon Musk’s electric car company surprised Wall Street, turning a profit. In these eight similar trading scenarios over the past five years, Tesla stock traded positively 88% of the time — outperforming the S&P 500. Several factors have contributed to Tesla’s run: the company’s entrance into China

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) responds to a question during a forum held by gun safety organizations the Giffords group and March For Our Lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2, 2019. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., dropped out of the 2020 presidential race Monday, after failing to gain traction in national polls and failing to qualify for two Democratic debates. Booker launched his bid for the Democratic nomination on Feb. 1, the first day of Black History Month. Booker

Major Gen. Parviz Aminiafshar was commander of the Imperial Guards and head of G2 Military Intelligence for Iran’s Royal Army. Source: Yasmin KhorramThere is another story about the killing of an Iranian general. In fact, as one of the top ranking military officials in Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s regime, he was an important ally. Major Gen. Parviz Aminiafshar was commander of the Imperial Guards and head of G2 Military Intelligence. Major General Parviz Aminiafshar (right) greets the Shah at a

Rhodium, along with other precious metals such as palladium and platinum, is used in catalytic converters, which are part of auto exhaust systems that reduce toxic gas emissions. According to S&P Global Platts, more than 80% of demand for rhodium and palladium comes from the automotive industry. Rhodium began the year trading at $6,050 per ounce, according to chemical company Johnson Matthey, before surging to $8,200 on Thursday for a gain of 35%. “Beyond commercial demand, investor interest in

Taron Egerton poses in the press room during the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 05, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. Here are 11 of the most surprising nominations and the biggest snubs. Snub: Taron EgertonDespite hoisting the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy last week, Taron Egerton will not be in contention for the leading actor Oscar. John and Bernie Taupin won the Golden Globe for “(“I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” last week. Snub: Greta

Asked about the possibility of regime collapse, General James Jones, who was Obama’s national security advisor in 2009 and 2010, said the risk for Tehran cannot be ignored. “I think it’s clear that the regime in Iran has had a very bad couple of weeks,” Jones said. Crumbling economyIran’s economy has been buckling under increasingly heavy U.S. sanctions imposed after the Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. While the Trump administration is encouraging the protesters, region

The decision to strike China from the currency manipulator list comes more than five months after the Treasury Department formally made the designation. President Donald Trump and China Vice Premier Liu He are scheduled to sign a preliminary trade agreement in Washington on Wednesday. The president’s decision to remove China from the list drew criticism from the Senate’s top Democrat, New York’s Chuck Schumer. The S&P 500 rose to a record high following reports that the Treasury Department will

Picking stocks with the highest dividend yield was the best strategy last decade, according to Bank of America. This strategy is to blindly buy the stocks with the highest dividend yields in the market, a move that can lead investors into some of the very riskiest stocks. The dividend yield is the dividend per share divided by the price per share. The low interest rates also made dividend yields more attractive relative to bond yields, and the stocks bounced back. Though it had a strong run over

Top negotiations, including Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and others are expected to attend the signing on Wednesday in Washington. Still, Roose said he was slightly more optimistic with a “Phase One” deal nearly inked. But China’s going through and addressing longtime, systemic barriers to U.S. products,” including biotechnology, Willems said. Beijing approved genetically modified soybeans and papaya from the U.S. last month after the announcement of the Phase One deal.

Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter is among the latest video game livestreamers to leave Amazon-owned Twitch to stream on a rival service. The three — Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, Lannan “LazarBeam” Eacott and Elliott “Muselk” Watkins — will move to Google-owned YouTube after years of streaming on Amazon’s Twitch. Twitch has dominated livestreaming, particularly video games, beginning with its founding as Justin.tv in 2011 and through Amazon’s 2014 acquisition of the company for nearly $1 billion.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) holds up his mobile phone while while speaking August 16, 2015 in Clinton, Iowa. When Bernie Sanders wants to read the news on his phone, he says he finds popular publications “in my own way.” Sanders made the only somewhat surprising disclosure in an interview with The New York Times editorial board, published Monday. While he reads The New York Times, The Washington Post and “some progressive publications,” among others, Sanders said he does not use apps to acce

Oracle has hired Ariel Kelman to be its new chief marketing officer, two people familiar with the matter said. Kelman is joining from Amazon Web Services, where he had been vice president of worldwide marketing for six years. He joined AWS from Salesforce, where he had held marketing roles, as head of worldwide marketing in 2011, and in 2014 he became AWS’ vice president for worldwide marketing in 2014, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before joining Salesforce Kelman spent two years at MicroS

“Your car becomes an exciting, an exciting place to be,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” just after Monday’s open on Wall Street, which saw Tesla shares soaring more than 5% to above $500 each for the first time. Cramer compared the in-car experience created by Tesla and Musk to a phrase used by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who likened the coffee shop to a “third place” between work and home. “I love sitting in a Tesla,” Cramer said Monday. She kept sitting on it and pressing the

Warren, who grew up with three older brothers in Oklahoma in the 1950s and ’60s, was taught that women stayed home to tend to family. I understood that many women did, and for a long time I felt like a failure,” she told Vogue. But after she got married at age 19, Warren quit school followed her husband, Jim Warren, to Texas. “With each one of those steps, I built a more independent life,” Warren told Vogue. I wanted family.

Rolling Stone just named Billie Eilish’s debut album “When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” 1 top-selling album of 2019, based on a combination of physical sales and digital consumption. These numbers account for digital and physical album sales, digital song sales and audio streams using a custom weighting system, according to Rolling Stone. Eilish recorded the album with her older brother Finneas in their family’s two-bedroom home in Highland Park, Los Angeles. “I was just making songs with my

Gwyneth Paltrow may be a fan of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as a business person, but you won’t see Goop products on his site anytime soon, Paltrow tells Julia Boorstin in an interview with CNBC Make It. “One of the special things about Goop is it’s mostly direct-to-consumer, [and] that we choose the channels carefully,” the Goop founder and CEO said when asked if she would sell Goop products on Amazon. “We’ve been wrestling with the idea of if we should have a wholesale partner or if we should keep i

“I always love to see a #kidtrepreneur in the tank,” Shark Barbara Corcoran live tweeted during Sunday’s episode. Corcoran was referring to 13-year-old Sofi Overton, who pitched her “sock with pockets” company, Wise Pocket Products, to the investors. “I created a sock for kids, made by this kid, to make life easier for whatever we’re doing,” Overton told the Sharks. “I got into this business when I was 11,” said Overton, who told the investors she’d been watching “Shark Tank” since she was 6. “G

Despite decades of success, actress and entrepreneur Suzanne Somers says she knows nothing about saving or investing money. I didn’t understand the value of money. I didn’t understand the value of shopping around getting the right price,” Somers, now 73, tells CNBC Make It. In 1977, at the age of 31, Somers got her first big break: the role of Chrissy Snow on ABC sitcom “Three’s Company.” “That didn’t feel right to me,” Somers, now 73, tells CNBC Make It.

Copies of Microsoft Windows 7 are arranged for a photograph at a Staples store in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. That means it won’t issue any more software updates, including software patches that could prevent cyberattacks, to millions of computers. But, if you have a computer that’s more than three years old, Microsoft suggests buying a new computer that runs Windows 10. According to Net Applications figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, b

Learning from the mistakes of others can make a big difference in helping you to achieve greatness and wealth in life. That’s why we asked 10 self-made millionaires and Advisors in The Oracles to share their advice on common actions that hold people back from success:1. “If you can apply the 40/70 rule, you’ll be successful at whatever you choose to do. —Holly Parker, founder and CEO of The Holly Parker Team at Douglas Elliman; award-winning broker who has made over $8 billion in sales. I once l