Tel Aviv-based startup Binah.ai is showing off its app, Bvue – an Innovation Award honoree – at CES 2020. It uses light reflecting from the user’s cheeks to read their heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiration, mental stress, and heart rate variability, with more to come. CNBC was not able to measure how accurate these readings are, but Binah.ai says the app provides “medical-grade accuracy proven against medical equipment.” Watch CNBC demo the app on the CES floor.

Michael Kassan, CEO of advertising advisory firm MediaLink, said as TV ratings decline with consumers shifting to streaming, there’s increasing demand from brands to reach consumers on new streaming platforms. Peacock will be the biggest ad-supported streaming launch, as NBC looks for an opportunity to move away from the increasingly crowded subscription streaming space. Amazon is building an ad-supported streaming service in IMDb TV. “I would argue that if it’s ad-supported streaming, it’s TV i

Here’s why Jefferies upgraded Snap to a buyBrent Thill of Jefferies joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss why he sees Snap as a buy.

David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., listens during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday:Barclays said in its upgrade of the stock that it saw “outsized global fundamental growth” in the consumer products and retail area. “SBUX continues to offer what we believe to be an attractive combination of outsized global fundamental (i.e. comp & unit) growth wit

Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands said its holiday sales shrunk, leading the retailer to cut its earnings outlook for the fourth quarter. The news comes on the heels of L Brands promising investors in September that an “evolution” was ahead for the embattled lingerie brand. L Brands now expects to report fourth-quarter earnings of $1.85 per share, down from its previous forecast of $2.00 per share. Sales of scented candles and lotions have been propping up L Brands’ otherwise increasingl

In today’s beauty industry – as with so many others – the appearance of “more of the same” can be a death knell. In fact, there are very few people (or ideas) that are truly original — it’s a remarkably high bar to clear. Da Vinci and Einstein were originals, and as most would argue, we have yet to see their equals. For more on tech, transformation and the future of work, join CNBC at the @Work Summit in New York on April 1–2, 2020. The key is in lateral thinking and being open to new ideas.

Shoppers enter a building housing a Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. store in New York. Bed Bath & Beyond shares tanked 19% in regular trading Thursday after the retailer withdrew its fiscal 2019 outlook in after-hours trading on Wednesday. Bed Bath & Beyond on Wednesday also reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Bed Bath & Beyond will delay closing 20 of its namesake stores as well. Bed Bath & Beyond’s sales have slumped as businesses such as Amazon, W

BJ Fogg Source: BJ FoggDon’t rely on willpower when it comes to your New Year’s resolutions. Fogg, Ph.D. What you need, instead, are habits, according to Fogg, a social science research associate who founded the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. That’s the message of Fogg’s new book “Tiny Habits.” Just three things create lasting change: “Have an epiphany, change our environment or change our habits in tiny ways,” Fogg said. It sounds counterintuitive — how can you stick to a budget or

Financial firms are trying to help Americans withdraw money from their retirement accounts. Withdrawing money from 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts, taxable brokerage accounts and other piles of savings can be a fraught process for people who’ve spent perhaps four decades amassing money to live off in their retirement years. They must also determine the most tax-efficient way to tap their accounts — it may make more financial sense with any particular withdrawal to use a Roth IRA ins

Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), holds a 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor while speaking during a keynote session at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 9, 2019. Improving U.S.-China trade tensions and competitor price cuts in the rear view now position hot chip stock Advanced Micro Devices to continue its impressive stock rally, according to Mizuho Securities. Semiconductor company AMD rallied nearly 150% in 2019, maki

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 for the week ended Jan. 4, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The fourth straight weekly decline saw claims almost unwinding the jump seen in early December, which was blamed on a later-than-normal Thanksgiving Day. The four-week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 9,500 to 224,000 last week. Labor market

The strike resulted in no U.S. casualties and was met with the threat of “punishing economic sanctions” from President Donald Trump . “When you talk about any geopolitical event, it typically makes sense to not overreact to it,” Stone said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” Stone’s target for the S&P this year is 3,675, the highest on Wall Street. He pointed to a surprising trend he noticed when reviewing how much markets tend to fall during election years: They don’t tend to decline more tha

The company said its same-store sales over a nine-week period that ended on Jan. 4 dropped 7.5%. The retailer said that its adjusted same-store sales — which exclude the impact of its exit from major appliance and furniture categories — were down 5.3%. The announcement follows one from rival Macy’s a day earlier, in which Macy’s said its holiday same-store sales dropped 0.6%. Kohl’s said earlier Thursday morning that its same-store sales during November and December were down 0.2%. The company i

The beds to be used by the athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, made partially from recyclable cardboard, are displayed during a press preview in Tokyo, Japan January 9, 2020. The athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be sleeping on cardboard. These beds align with the Tokyo 2020 Games’ sustainability concept of, “Be better, together – For the planet and the people.” The Tokyo 2020 Games set five main sustainability themes to follow while preparing

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce proposed rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, January 9, 2020. Many of the White House’s proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act have been supported by business groups that contend the law has delayed or blocked projects like laying out oil pipelines and building dams and mines, among other things. The plan, released by the Whit

Markets have seen wild swings in recent days as investors digest the latest news between the U.S. and Iran. But, is there opportunity to double down on volatility with the stocks most prone to outsized moves? “High beta is very interesting because you’re always going to see some moving and shaking. Ulta Beauty, which has fallen 25% in six months, could be a highly volatile stock worth a second look, according to O’Hara. The stock has risen 147% in the past 12 months, while the SMH semiconductor

The news sent Kohl’s shares tumbling as much 9% in premarket trading. The decline wasn’t as bad as many had feared, sending Macy’s shares higher on the news. This past holiday season was the first in which the partnership was live at all of Kohl’s stores nationwide. Bank of America analyst Lorraine Hutchinson echoed this sentiment in her downgrade of Kohl’s shares to neutral from buy. Kohl’s is expected to share more details regarding its holiday results when it reports quarterly earnings on Mar

The Deloitte CFO Signals Survey showed that while the corporate leaders see the economy as “good,” they anticipate that before the year is over, conditions will slow. “North America is clearly the place where companies are continuing to increase their investment focus,” said Sandy Cockrell, Deloitte Global CFO program leader. Deloitte surveyed 147 CFOs from U.S., Canada and Mexico, most from companies that have more than $3 billion in annual revenue. Trade, politics figure in outlookAmong the co

Bryan R Smith | ReutersU.S. stock futures were pointing to a new intraday high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average at Thursday’s open on Wall Street. The Stock Trader’s Almanac, which studied the market phenomenon going back to 1950, found that the first five days has a good track record of predicting the whole year. Tesla’s stock value tops the combined market caps of GM and FordElon Musk attends the groundbreaking ceremony of the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, on January 7, 2019.

People burn a poster representing US President Donald Trump to protest against the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. A former CIA officer told CNBC on Thursday that it’s likely Iran will carry out small-scale cyberattacks to avoid U.S. retaliation. Additionally, several websites across the globe were hit with cyberattacks that defaced them with images and slogans supportive of Soleimani. Rather than attempt to hit highly secured agencies like the military or financial service