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If you’re on Medicare, it’s time to give your coverage a yearly checkup. The program’s annual enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, which is when you can make coverage changes that will take effect Jan. 1. During this autumn window, you can: • Switch to an Advantage Plan (Part C) from original

Saving for retirement is hard. It’s even harder for those managing student loan bills. All in, student debt reached a record $1.5 trillion this year, according to the Federal Reserve. And that debt burden has taken a heavy toll on many Americans’ nest eggs. Right from the start, college graduates who have student debt have

This week’s tech wreck hasn’t deterred TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon from his bullish bet on Apple. “You don’t see the decline in Apple that we’ve seen in the Nasdaq,” Gordon said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday. “You can see this shelf of support is really holding in Apple just around the $215 mark so

Let the daydreaming continue. After no one picked all the winning numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, the jackpot has jumped to $314 million. Between that and Mega Millions’ $548 million top prize, a whopping $862 million is waiting for winners in the next drawings — Friday night for Mega Millions and Saturday night for

The cannabis industry’s rapid evolution and new strategic partnerships with mainstream brands reveal a far larger possible market for legal marijuana than investors and analysts first anticipated, according to Cowen. “With cannabis, you’re talking about this massive step change in terms of the addressable market,” Vivien Azer said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Wednesday. “You’re bringing

Snap’s list of worries is growing longer: It’s strapped for cash and will likely be forced to raise capital as early as mid-2019, according to one Wall Street research firm. “While it is obvious that Snap wasn’t prepared for life as a public company, it now has a more pressing problem. It is quickly running

Apple shares will rally because the company will benefit from falling component costs for its phones, according to Citi Research. The firm raised its price target to $265 from $230 for Apple shares, predicting the smartphone maker will report earnings per share above expectations next year. The new forecast represents 18 percent upside to Friday’s

There’s a growing risk that trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies may converge with other factors to disrupt the global economy — and knock the historic U.S. stock market rally off its stride, according to one of the world’s leading authorities on Asia. Yale University senior fellow Stephen Roach is worried the US-China

Good news: No one hit all winning numbers in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing. Even better news: The jackpot amount has now surged to $470 million. Between that purse and a $253 million Powerball haul, a whopping $723 million is up for grabs in the next drawings. That will be on Saturday night for Powerball,

FANG got wrecked this week. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet plummeted on Thursday, compounding weakness that has plagued the broader tech space. At least one of those names could have hit a bottom, according to Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. “The stock that I think could be compelling down here is

Here’s a good reason for the happily married to rejoice: They have better access to a tax-friendly retirement savings strategy. Generally, a Roth individual retirement account allows savers to put away up to $5,500 (plus $1,000 if you’re age 50 or older), have the money grow free of taxes and then tap it in retirement

As of the end of 2017, more than 2 out of 3 retirement plans at Vanguard offered a Roth 401(k) option, and 12 percent of participants with these plans chose to contribute to them. While a traditional 401(k) allows you to save money on a pre-tax basis, you’re using after-tax dollars to contribute to a

Without even thinking about it, we interact with artificial intelligence every day. Siri finds nearby pizza places or dry cleaners. Alexa turns on lights and gives the day’s forecast. So it may come as no surprise that AI is now a deep but unseen part of your job hunting. Just as spellcheck alerts you to

Wall Street begins the home stretch of the year in good stead. The S&P 500 ended the third quarter Friday with its best performance since 2013, and all three benchmark indexes closed out September one rally from record highs they set earlier in the month. October has a reputation for monumental crashes such as those

The Federal Reserve just keeps on hiking, and it could be setting the U.S. economy up for its next recession, says Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group. This week, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate a quarter point, and upgraded its expectations for economic growth for this year and next. However,

The third quarter is wrapping up, September is coming to a close, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer can finally breathe. “The third quarter’s in the bag and it’s been a good one — best in five years. Even September was good, and historically, that tends to be a rough month,” the “Mad Money” host said on

Wall Street is buzzing over SEC’s civil action against Tesla CEO Elon Musk, predicting significant negative ramifications for the electric car market due to the announcement. Shares of the automaker are down 12 percent in Friday’s premarket session. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Musk for fraud, according to court documents filed on Thursday. The

Stifel issued the highest Amazon price target on Wall Street Thursday, highlighting the company’s continued leadership in e-commerce and cloud services as critical to expectations of wider profit margins. Analyst Scott Devitt told clients to expect Amazon shares to rally to $2,525 from Wednesday’s close at $1,974.85 over the next year. The new target implies

The Apple rally is about to get a whole lot sweeter, says TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon. Apple shares have rallied more than 10 percent since its market cap crossed $1 trillion for the first time ever in August, and according to Gordon, the stock could get a bigger boost following its earnings report in late

General Electric hasn’t seen these levels since Wall Street was in crisis. Its shares tumbled more than 3 percent on Monday to fall below $12. Its latest sell-off brought it to its lowest level since July 2009 when the S&P 500, was still trying to climb out of the pit created by the financial crisis.

Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday’s close of $9.09 a share, while Sirius stock fell 1.4 percent from its previous close of $6.98 a share. This story is developing. Please check

Mom-and-pop investors hoping to jump on the next hot tech start-up before it goes public may soon get their wish — and it could cost them. In August, Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke at a conference in Nashville, outlining plans that would make it easier for individuals to invest

Comstock Resources: “We’re not going down the speculative food chain when it comes to oil and gas. That always tends to be a mistake. [For] the charitable trust, I’ve been telling club members of ActionAlertsPlus.com it’s a simple one. You buy BP and you get that 5 percent yield while you wait for oil to

On a very bullish day for the broader stock market, the declines in the retail sector were speaking volumes to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. With the trade dispute between the United States and China heating up, the “Mad Money” host figured the weakness stemmed from “a belief that the retailers will have to eat the tariffs,

The trade war between the U.S. and China is not a major risk to the stock market, noted economist Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC on Wednesday. In fact, he doesn’t see it expanding into a full-blown, global problem. “All this rhetoric you hear from both sides … it’s about the journey, not destination. The destination, in

With investors seemingly undecided about how badly trade tensions with China will hit U.S. markets, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wanted to define the issue a bit more for Wall Street. “‘Who has more to lose?’ People keep asking this question about the trade war with China as though we don’t really already know the answer. But

Gary Cohn, the White House’s former top economic advisor, said Monday that Jamie Dimon would make a ‘phenomenal president’ days after the J.P. Morgan chief executive said he could beat Donald Trump in an election. “I think Jamie would make a phenomenal president. I think Jamie would be a spectacular president,” Cohn said during a

Staying home with a new baby is a luxury – but only in the U.S. That’s because bonding with an infant generally means giving up income at a time when expenses are going up. Less than a quarter of private-sector workers have paid family leave, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Just five states

Come Monday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq will try to kick-off its second positive week in a row. But it’s poised to do so without small cap tech and Chinese internet companies. According to veteran market watcher Nicholas Colas, much of Wall Street is mistakenly assuming that the technology sector’s big surge is broad-based. “It’s largely a

When stocks reversed course and fell on Friday after President Donald Trump doubled down on his call to place tariffs on Chinese goods, CNBC’s Jim Cramer offered investors some advice on how to approach the trade debacle. “You need to realize the president doesn’t want China to talk. He wants China to cave,” the “Mad