The Nintendo Switch will be released internationally on March 3rd for $299.99. The Switch will be available in two versions: either a console with all-gray Joy-Con controllers, or one with a Neon Red and Neon Blue Joy-Con set. As for accessories: the more traditional Pro Controller will cost $69.99, while extra Joy-Con pairs will run $79.99 each, with individual Joy-Con costing $49.99. Each Joy-Con controller, whether purchased individually or paired, also includes a wrist strap attachment. Alon

“It’s great for the short term and the long term,” he said. Even if you’re healthy, those can be a big bill in retirement: A 65-year-old couple who retired in 2016 could expect to spend $260,000 to cover health care costs, according to an August report from Fidelity. But HSAs require a high-deductible health plan, which can make it difficult to cover your current health costs and still have money left in the account to grow for retirement needs, McClanahan said. In 2015, only 6 percent of HSAs h

Seth Masters, who oversees $80 billion in assets at Bernstein Private Wealth Management, predicts U.S. market returns will be much more difficult to achieve in the years ahead. “After now about six or seven years of a very healthy equity market recovery, U.S. stocks are no longer cheap,” Masters said. “It’s going to be a little tougher to get good returns and manage risk in the years ahead. When you have stronger equity returns outside the U.S., but possibly weaker currencies, you need to have p

Liz Ann Sonders, who sets the tone for $2.7 trillion of investors’ assets as chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, shares her investment outlook for 2017 during an extensive strategy session with CNBC’s Mike Santoli. “If you look at the improvement in the economic data, it predated the election. So I think some of this move reflects the economic data and earnings data having already approved at this point,” she said. She said just as in 2016, there could be a “slow melt-up” for stocks t

Hasbro, the maker of Monopoly, is letting you vote on the tokens you want to see in the next generation of the classic board game. The segment, which includes card games, board games, puzzles, dice and strategy games, caters to toddlers, teens and adults and has been gaining speed in recent years. In 2013, the company held a “Save Your Token” vote to determine which classic token would be replaced. In 2014, Hasbro held a vote for its Australian version of the game to determine which state or ter

Hulu is getting a lot of musical artists excited about virtual reality technology, thanks to an unexpected evangelist: Lil Wayne. “He’s the real deal,” Kevin Chernett, Live Nation’s executive vice president of global partnerships and content distribution, said at a panel discussion. “His team would tell you he’s in VR all the time,” said Noah Heller, Hulu’s vice president of emerging technology. In the first episode, viewers join Lil Wayne’s skateboarding crew as they play a concert and explore

Currently, with more than $10 million raised and a bit over a day left in the campaign, the game is the fifth most funded project ever to run on Kickstarter. The other top ten highest earning products include Pebble smartwatches, the “coolest cooler,” a deluxe travel jacket and a tiny desk toy called a Fidget Cube. New York City-based game designer and founder of Kingdom Death Adam Poots is, unsurprisingly, excited. Poots says he has raised double-digit millions because he works hard and follows

Sony sold 6.2 million units of its PlayStation 4 console during the holiday season, bringing the total global sales to 53.4 million units in the three years since it was launched, the company said on Thursday. The figure, calculated between 20 November and January 1, marks an almost 9 percent rise from the 5.7 million units it sold in roughly the same period a year ago. The last figures Sony gave were on December 7 when it said it had exceeded 50 million PS4 sales. It’s important to note that th

Spot is ambient and thus can hear commands from far away, using Google Assistant to respond to spoken requests. “We are going through unquestionably the most exciting times in the computer history that we’ve ever witnessed,” Huang said. Once known as a niche video game processor company, Nvidia has seen its share price rise more than 220 percent in the past year. Indeed, Nvidia showed off some of its cutting-edge technology using the highly anticipated new game, “Mass Effect Andromeda,” due out

With Netflix set to report earnings in less than a month, Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com believes it’s time to tune in to the streaming giant’s shares. A daily chart of Netflix shows that its stock has struggled to retake $130, a level just below the all-time high that it hit back in December of last year. But according to Gordon, Netflix is about to not only return to that level, but to break through it as well. “You can see that we have tried the $130 area several times and it looks like w

Take advantage of catch-up contributions. You can also make catch-up contributions of an extra $1,000 into an IRA, which may be deductible. Having a mix can help you better control your taxable income in retirement, he said, potentially keeping you into a lower tax bracket. Health savings accounts have a triple tax advantage — you can deduct contributions, and account funds grow tax-free and can be withdrawn tax-free for qualified medical expenses. (You’ll have plenty of those in retirement; an

The weather outside may be frightful, but Goldman Sachs has stock suggestions that could be delightful for investors’ portfolios. Goldman’s options research team came out with a list of stocks that have “strong fundamental links to cold weather” — in other words, stocks that could do well as the weather gets colder. The trade is indeed very likely to lose money if the weather turns warm. But in Goldman’s defense, its argument is that the potential for an overly cold winter is currently being und

Benjamin Swinburne of Morgan Stanley, one of the top-ranked media analysts on Wall Street, says changes in consumption habits over the past decade have only reinforced his view that Americans will remain big consumers of entertainment content. Consumers haven’t given up television, but instead are watching shows on demand through their tablets and other media devices, he said. And now they are buying services such as Netflix and Hulu on top of their cable subscriptions, the analyst added. During

David Lebovitz, a global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, which oversees $1.8 trillion, said investors may need to rethink how they value stocks during this euphoric market rally on President-elect Donald Trump’s promises of pro-growth economic policies. What I feel like Trump’s election has done is brought out some animal spirits. There was underlying support from the fundamentals as it was, but now we got sentiment on our side,” Lebovitz said. In this in-depth interview, Lebovit

Gold has slumped nearly 12 percent in the fourth quarter, suffering its second-worst quarter in 18 years as a host of catalysts pummel the yellow metal. Stocks have surged following Donald Trump’s surprise victory, and market-based measures of fear like the CBOE volatility index have tumbled. Since gold is (at best) a nonyielding asset, higher rates in the bond market make gold a less attractive holding by comparison. Prior to that, gold last fell by more than 12 percent in the final quarter of

William Priest, chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Epoch Investment Partners, said investors may need to temper expectations for big economic growth under President-elect Donald Trump. Priest, whose firm manages more than $40 billion, told Mike Santoli in an exclusive interview:”You’re going to have a very difficult time getting real growth to be more than 2 percent except, perhaps, through a cyclical phenomenon. Let’s say, for example, you have a huge fiscal program that might r

Apple launched Apple Pay in 2014 with a plan to try to replace your wallet. In the meantime, it has added support for transit passes and loyalty cards, and — as announced tonight — for Square Cash. But what about other things that still require carrying a physical wallet, such as identification cards? Bailey did want to talk about transit, especially in Japan, where the company recently launched Apple Pay support for the country’s native Suica transit and payments system. More than a million cus

The pro-growth agenda of President-elect Donald Trump will spark a revival in active investing, according to UBS equity and derivatives strategist Julian Emanuel, who shared his 2017 investment playbook with CNBC PRO. In 2017 and beyond, however, a resetting of interest rates along with pro-growth economic policies proposed by Trump should result in investment opportunities for stock pickers. The game in our view has changed for the medium term,” Emanuel said. In this in-depth conversation with

One trader sees signs that stocks are set to keep rallying—and he has an interesting maneuver for how to profit off of his prediction. This implies that the market will likely move higher from here, and it has Gordon looking to make a bullish play on the SPY ETF, which tracks the S&P 500. However, given that options prices have risen lately due to increasing expectations of volatility, Gordon instead favors selling put options. Because we’re selling puts that are 80 cents below the market… so we

David Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, spoke at length with CNBC’s Mike Santoli about passive investing, how to value the market and what may be ahead under President-elect Donald Trump. On the other hand, you know, Reagan said he was going to balance the budget. And I don’t think Mr. Trump has said he is going to balance the budget. But it’d be very difficult for anybody to balance the budget today. In this exclusive conversation for PRO subscribers, Blitzer, w