Marcus Lemonis is best known for running his billion-dollar company Camping World, as well as hosting CNBC’s “The Profit.” But one little-known fact about the business mogul is this: He’s a “macaron snob.” And Macaron Queen — a boutique macaron shop in Atlanta — gets his seal of approval. “I actually think this is the
Month: December 2019
George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Caterpillar, Apple, 3M — Trade sensitive stocks fell on Tuesday after President Donald Trump suggested he may want to delay a trade deal with China until after the 2020 presidential election. Trump later said Tuesday’s market drop is “peanuts” and
La Reverie, the six-acre estate on Palm Beach stretches over 70,000 square feet. Handout Hedge 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. Schonfeld, the founder of New York-based Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, closed on the six acre-estate
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 14, 2019 Spencer Platt | Getty Images It’s December, markets are dropping and it feels like we’ve been here before. Stocks dropped the first two trading days of December and investors are having deja vu. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled nearly
Charitable donations generally kick into high gear on “Giving Tuesday,” a single day specifically focused on charity in the shopping-heavy week after Thanksgiving. Since its start, the #GivingTuesday effort has raised more than $1 billion online in the U.S. alone. And yet, the new tax law has taken its toll. In terms of total dollars,
Getty One of the biggest concerns Americans face nearing retirement: Will I run out of money? That’s why some people consider buying tax-deferred annuities — contracts where you plunk down a big chunk of money and an insurer guarantees to pay you back a set amount of money for life. But, as the new Friends
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about when and if spousal benefits may become available, foreign pensions’ effects on benefits, when survivor benefits can become available, remarriage and Medicare benefits and survivor rates for disabled adult children. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of
Recent overbuilding in senior living communities has led to questions about basic demographics. Population trends are important and easily quantified, but the health and lifestyle choices of senior citizens is harder to analyze. The easy part is the numbers. Everyone who will be 65 anytime soon has already been born. Foreign immigrants to the United
Starbucks Irish Cream Cold Brew holiday drink. Source: Starbucks Starbucks is launching its latest holiday drink on Friday: the Irish Cream Cold Brew. The cold brew, mixed with Irish cream syrup, comes topped with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and cocoa powder. Two years ago, Starbucks’ midseason addition to its holiday lineup was the Christmas
Buildings along Victoria Harbor at night in Hong Kong, on April 29, 2019. Justin Chin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Law Ka-chung stepped down as chief economist at the Hong Kong unit of a Chinese state-owned bank and has alleged he was forced to do so because he is a native of Hong Kong, the
ROKU CEO Anthony Wood Source: CNBC Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: Morgan Stanley downgraded Roku to ‘underweight’ from ‘equal weight’ Morgan Stanley said in its downgraded that revenue and gross profit growth will slow meaningfully in 2020. “Roku continues to execute a sound strategy to capitalize on the shift to
Kerkez | Getty Images There are certain traditions you probably want to keep this holiday season. Ballooning credit-card debts shouldn’t be one of them. Yet a recent survey from CreditCards.com found that 45% of all card holders are willing to take on holiday-related credit-card debt this season. Meanwhile, some 41% of adults who have a
DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 25: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for a selfie with a WASPI … [+] (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigner in Renishaw on November 25, 2019 in Derbyshire, England. A day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched the Conservative manifesto, Jeremy Corbyn is expected to announce Labour’s housing policy. (Photo by
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The dispute over Hong Kong could derail trade talks. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Topline: Days after President Trump signed into law a bill supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, China hit back with limits on the U.S. Navy and critical nonprofit organizations, with the escalating
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Located in Chicago’s Gold Coast, the new 61 Banks Street features a stone façade framed in dark … [+] metal. Steve Hall @ Hall+Merrick Photographers While ultra modern, glass-and-steel exteriors have reigned supreme over the last decade, masonry and dark trim exteriors are gaining in popularity
Pedestrians cross Russell Street in front of the Times Square shopping mall, operated by Wharf (Holdings) Ltd., in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong, China. Xaume Olleros | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hong Kong’s tourist arrivals and retail sales figures are unlikely to be any better in November after their dismal showing in
Rob Bernshteyn, CEO, Coupa Software Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Shares of Coupa Software slipped more than 2% during extended trading after the cloud services company reported third-quarter earnings. Coupa posted earnings of 20 cents per share on revenue of $101.8 million in the third quarter. The
Six of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies had a combined “tax gap” of more than $100 billion this decade, according to a new analysis. Fair Tax Mark, a British organization that certifies businesses for good tax conduct, assessed global tax payments from Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft between 2010 and 2019. The companies are
Mark II Unitorque electric pumping unit at a crude oil well site outside South Heart, North Dakota. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pretty much every trade has worked on Wall Street this year except one: natural gas. Futures prices fell to a one-month low on Friday after plunging more than 12% for the
Pictured: (l-r) Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute and Steve Carell as Michael Scott in an episode of “The Office.” Justin Lubin | NBCU Photo Bank If you’re like many workers, you’ll be shopping online while you’re working today. A recent survey from Robert Half Technology, a human resources consulting company, found that 52% of employees