No matter what your main financial goal is — a house , early retirement or just getting out of debt — odds are you'd like to boost your income. As Suze Orman , financial expert and former CNBC host, told the audience at the 2017 eMerge Americas conference, "The biggest problem is when you do make it big and you don't know what to do with your money. Because then, what happens is some financial advisor is going to come by and give you a slick presentation , they're going to give you an elevator speech and a pitch, and you're going to take it.

Legendary global macro trader Paul Tudor Jones is warning that asset prices are too high. And furthermore, he’s concerned about what the next recession might look like. He shared his thoughts on Monday during a conversation with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk just invoked a late tech titan in urging workers to keep an eye out for any funny business after a fire briefly halted car output. In a “strange incident that was hard to explain,” a small fire on a manufacturing line in Tesla’s plant stopped production for several hours, Musk wrote in an email to employees Monday. Tesla can ill afford manufacturing setbacks now.
Shares of Twitter Inc. ( TWTR), Netflix Inc. ( NFLX), Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. ( CMG), Under Armour Inc. ( UAA) and TripAdvisor Inc. ( TRIP) are among some of the best performing U.S. equities in 2018, as the market experiences a level of volatility
Dow Jones futures fell early Monday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures as Asian markets and crude futures retreated. Five notable chip stocks are near buy points: Micron Technology (MU), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (AVGO), ASML (ASML
President Donald Trump is searching for more China-made goods to tax. As the U.S. president threatens tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese imports, he may find it difficult to spare electronic goods, clothing and textiles that account for half of all Chinese exports to the U.S. Last week, Trump’s $50 billion hit list of made-in-China goods largely focused on high-technology industries such as robotics, aerospace and cars. "They will focus on electronics,” said Fielding Chen at Bloomberg Economics.

Sycamore Partners is one of the private equity firms that has expressed interest in GameStop, one of the people said. There is no guarantee the talks will result in GameStop deciding to sell itself, the people cautioned.
Jun.19 -- China vowed to retaliate after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese imports. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East" with Tracy Alloway. ANOTHER $200 BILLION IN CHINESE
With a stock market that's been picking up steam for quite some time, finding reasonable places to invest is challenging. Moreno has several picks he feels are ready to move higher, starting with United States Steel Corp. The steelmaker's stock has been trading sideways despite President Trump's imposition of steel tariffs on imports.
Advanced Micro Devices AMD saw its stock price pop over 5% on Monday to hit a new 11-year high on the back of positive analyst sentiment, which also pointed directly to its ability to compete against chip giant Intel INTC. “Along with recent announcements of new server deals with Cisco CSCO/Tencent TCEHY and the crystallization of our 7nm AMD versus 10nm Intel thesis, we are increasingly confident in upside to AMD shares," analyst Matthew Ramsay wrote in a note to clients last Thursday. Ramsay believes that AMD’s transition to its brand new 7nm AMD Radeon Vega GPU products, which are set to launch at some point in 2018, will be hugely beneficial.

Like Friday, trade-war worries again rattled investors’ confidence on Monday, although they did well to buy the morning weakness. Let’s look at our top stock trades going into Tuesday. Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow #1: Box (BOX) Box Inc (NYSE:BOX) had
Investors and financial planners both suggest that dividend stocks can be a great source of income for those looking to supplement their retirement savings. The blue-chip stock's staying power and brand recognition should be viewed favorably by retiree investors, says Robert Johnson, principal at the Fed Policy Investment Research Group. Demand for Johnson & Johnson's products remains fairly consistent, providing a more stable investment in the event of a stock market decline, Johnson thinks.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taunting those betting against the company's stock. Follow Tesla's stock price in real-time here. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was taunting short-sellers, or those betting the company's stock price will go down, once again over the weekend.
In an effort to attract customers, American Express Co. AXP has launched a new credit card named, American Express Cash Magnet Card. Other benefits on the card include a complimentary ShopRunner membership and Amex Offers rewarding Card Members at places they like to shop, travel and dine. This effort by American Express reflects its strategy to lure new customers and retain the existing base in the persistently highly competitive credit card industry.
2018 is just about over, in the minds of some investors. "We expect investors will soon look past 2018 and focus on 2019 growth," says Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin. "For many years, beginning in July investors would start to value stocks
Michael Bell of JP Morgan Asset Management gives his take on the big market risks.
JP Morgan is out with a bullish note on Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) in which the Wall Street firm not only reiterated its Overweight rating and $82 price target on Micron stock, but also recommended buying shares ahead of the company’s next earnings report. JP Morgan expects the numbers to be quite good given improving fundamentals in the memory market, driven primarily by robust cloud data center spend.
Kraft Heinz Co. is hungry for a big deal, but can it stomach a fight? "Based on how quickly they walked away from Unilever last year," Morningstar analyst Erin Lash told TheStreet on Monday, June 18, "they don't seem to want to be involved in a hostile
Ford Motor Co.'s ( F) stock has gone in reverse in 2018, falling over 4% year to date and nearly 10% from its January high. The index is up nearly 3.5% in 2018 while rival General Motors Co. ( GM) has sped ahead by rising 7.2%. Hitting the company hard was the shutdown of its two plants that produce the Ford F-150 pickup truck, due to a fire at one of its suppliers.
Following months of negotiations, the United States and China are again on the brink of an all-out trade war. The United States has targeted a flurry of Chinese goods, while China has vowed to respond with tariffs of its own, which could hurt U.S. businesses. The White House will impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion Chinese imports, which has increased the chances of a confrontation with China over trade.. The United States has decided to penalize China for stealing American technology and of course trade secrets.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) shares were declining throughout regular trading hours Monday as the company received a downgrade from an analyst over mounting competition. Northland Capital Markets analyst Gus Richard downgraded the stock in a note to investors from market perform to underperform due to CPU competition from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) and other companies developing similar products. “Intel’s process technology leadership is diminished if not evaporated,” wrote Richard.
Evercore ISI analyst C.J. Muse raised his price target on Micron Technology Inc. shares to $100 from $80, ahead of the company's Wednesday afternoon earnings report. "While Micron's stock is up a solid ~90% over the last year, we note EPS has actually grown by ~130% meaning Micron's very low multiple has continued to compress - a clear signal of cyclical concerns," Muse wrote in a Saturday note. Micron's stock is down 0.5% in Monday trading but up 41% so far this year.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) stock is the Taj Mahal of company stocks, long known for its sky-high Class A share price and for its iconic -- and refreshingly unassuming -- chairman, president and CEO, Warren Buffett. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company operates in the financial services sector (particularly insurance) and also operates in the freight transportation, real estate brokerage, energy, utility and diversified manufacturing sectors. The company, founded in 1889, boasts 377,000 employees, and many staffers are likely wondering what a post-Buffett Berkshire Hathaway would look like.
Shares of Wall Street superstar Micron MU opened slightly lower on Monday, just two days before the company is set to release its third-quarter fiscal 2018 financial results. J.P. Morgan JPM analysts reiterated their overweight rating for Micron stock on Monday, pointing directly to strong demand for memory in the cloud computing market. The banking power’s Micron update comes just a few weeks after Micron announced that it is set to produce and ship the “industry's first 4bits/cell 3D NAND technology” along with Intel INTC.
U.S. futures fell on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump requested for $200 billion in Chinese goods be identified for potential additional tariffs. The implied open for the Dow Jones industrial average was more than 220 points to the downside as of 12:03 a.m. ET. U.S. futures fell after U.S. President Donald Trump Monday evening announcement that he had asked for $200 billion worth of Chinese products to be identified and potentially subject to additional tariffs.