China and Tesla. Senra, whose firm runs the world’s largest China ETF by assets — iShares’ MSCI China ETF (MCHI) — said MCHI’s recent success has been fueled by investors “buying the dip,” or capitalizing on what they see as the nadir of the Chinese market’s coronavirus-related weakness. You’re beginning to see flow from emerging markets into China,” Senra said Monday on CNBC’s “ETF Edge.” “There’s not a lot of companies in this space,” Jacobs said. “It’s very concentrated in the lithium miner s

Travel earnings are on deck this week, and it could give insight into how large an economic impact the coronavirus outbreak might have on the industry. Hilton Worldwide, which reported Tuesday morning, issued solid guidance but said the effect of the coronavirus was still unknown. Watch out for one of those, says Mark Newton, founder of Newton Advisors. It is fairly bearish technically just in the month of December,” Newton said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “The stock moved down to the

More than six months after Universal pulled “The Hunt” from its September 2019 opening, the controversial satire finally has a new release date. The film is about a group of globalist elites who pay large amounts of money to hunt people for sport. Universal had canceled the release of “The Hunt” after shooting massacres in Ohio and Texas in August killed 31 people and wounded dozens of others. While the impetus to remove the film from its original release date was a series of shooting massacres,

A mistake in the lab led U.S. health officials to release an infected coronavirus patient from a San Diego hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Tuesday. Four evacuees exhibited symptoms of the new coronavirus, now named COVID-19, and were transferred from the Miramar facility to a UC San Diego Health facility for isolation and treatment, UC San Diego Health said in a statement. On Sunday, UC San Diego Health said, CDC officials said all four evacuees tested negative

Yunus Arakon | E+ | Getty ImagesInvestor money ensnared in alleged Ponzi schemes has hit its highest level in a decade, leading to concern that a booming stock market and de-regulatory agenda are pushing more fraudsters to bilk unsuspecting investors. Bernard Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a $65 billion scam encompassing thousands of investors that was uncovered in 2008. The stock market has been on its longest winning streak in history after emerging from the rubble of the Grea

The basic rules for Medicare are that unless you have qualifying insurance elsewhere, you must sign up at age 65 or face late-enrollment penalties. Even if you sign up for Medicare at age 65, you can drop it later if you want to switch to qualifying employer-based coverage. (You also could keep Medicare and pair it with your large-group employer plan, in which case Medicare would be your secondary insurance). Regardless of whether you delay Medicare or drop it, it’s important to make sure you’re

An F/A-18 Hornet aircraft sits on the flight line as a wall of fire detonates behind it during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Oct. 3, 2010. WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is asking Congress for $705.4 billion in its fiscal 2021 budget, $13 billion less than what Congress gave the Pentagon in fiscal 2020. The White House released the broad details of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, which seeks a colossal $740.5 billion f

Household debt surged by more than $600 billion in 2019, marking the biggest annual increase since just before the financial crisis, according to the New York Federal Reserve. Total household debt balances rose by $601 billion last year, topping $14 trillion for the first time, according to a new report by the Fed branch. The last time the growth was that large was 2007, when household debt rose by just over $1 trillion. Balances for auto loans and credit cards both increased by $57 billion for

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden leaves a campaign event in Somersworth, New Hampshire, February 5, 2020. Two new polls this week have found Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., comfortably leading Biden among Democratic voters nationally. Former Vice President Joe Biden will travel to South Carolina on Tuesday night, while New Hampshire Democratic primary results come in, as polls show his support waning in early nominating states and nationwide. When asked if South

But the traditional retirement age — 65 — could be changing. Research by Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and the Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement looked at what age workers around the world expect to retire from all-paid employment. The Netherlands came in with the highest age, 67. The retirement age is creeping higher in the U.S. and elsewhere, said Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. In the U.S., according to the Social

Top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee threatened to fracture a bipartisan investigation into Big Tech. Politico reported that Nadler did not call specifically to break up the tech companies, but instead was speaking broadly about changes necessary to tackle the issue of concentrated market power. “America’s leaders should not punish tech companies simply because those companies have succeeded — that will hurt consumers and stifle innovation. Our online ecosystem is thriving and breaki

This is what 71-year-old model Maye Musk, mother of Elon, eats in a dayMaye Musk became the face of CoverGirl at age 69. She is also a registered dietitian and mother of Elon, Kimbal and Tosca. Hear what she eats on a normal day to stay lean and her thoughts on dieting.

Before Mark Cuban became a billionaire in 1999, he experienced a string of failures. “It doesn’t matter how many times you f— up,” Cuban said on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast on Feb. 4. Then Cuban moved to Texas and tried to start a business selling powdered milk, which failed. While living in Dallas, Cuban slept on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment where he lived with six other guys. “It doesn’t matter how many times you strike out,” he wrote in his book.

Today Barack and Michelle Obama are empty nesters: Their daughters, Malia, 21, and Sasha, 18, are both away at college. And Michelle, for one, is enjoying it: “[Life] is so good,” Obama, 56, told Oprah Winfrey on Saturday during Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus tour in Brooklyn, New York. Raising kids in the public eye was tough, Obama told Winfrey. When asked by Winfrey if there was a “running theme” of advice Obama had for her daughters while they were growing up, she said it was to liv

This year, tax filing season started on January 27, 2020 and runs through Wednesday, April 15, 2020 for most taxpayers. Here’s a look at where parents could score some breaks and how to avoid some common, and potentially expensive, pitfalls when filing federal income taxes this year. There’s also a non-refundable $500 credit for other qualifying dependents who may not otherwise meet the requirements for the larger child tax credit. If you use child care, check with your employer to see if they o

Intermittent fasting, an eating pattern that entails alternating between periods of fasting and eating, has become mega-popular among high-profile figures from Dorsey, who says it makes him more productive, to actress Jennifer Aniston. As for the ketogenic diet, it is a high-fat, extremely low carbohydrate diet that was originally intended to treat epilepsy. Some mice studies suggest that a low-carb diet could improve brain function, and many people use the “keto” diet to lose weight. Musk’s own

Although salary is still considered a taboo topic in many workplaces, new data released by PayScale shows that openly sharing employee salaries could be a top solution to closing the gender pay gap. At the director level, women saw the largest jump in pay equity when their company is transparent. Women in director level roles who strongly agree that their organization is transparent about pay earn salaries equal to men. However, a few male-dominated industries like construction, food preparation

There is no one-size-fits-all template for a resume that will guarantee a job interview or offer. But there is one major message that every resume should illustrate: “This is how I made things better for my employers.” The secret to making that point as clear and compelling as possible depends on how many years you’ve been working. Here are solid resumes examples from candidates across three common experience levels: Mid-level, junior and recently graduated:*Note: These are hypothetical examples

The Department of Justice will force federal prosecutors to cut their recommended prison sentence for Republican political operative Roger Stone — a longtime ally of President Donald Trump — from the term of seven to nine years that they first suggested Monday night. Trump early Tuesday morning blasted the original recommended sentence for Stone. The DOJ, the Washington U.S. Attorney’s office, and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNBC. A large fraction of

Fed probably won’t cut rates, but they should: LaVorgnaJoe LaVorgna, Natixis Americas chief economist, Kenny Polcari, SlateStone Wealth, and CNBC’s Steve Liesman join ‘The Exchange’ to discuss what they think the Federal Reserve’s next move could be.