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Fears of an impending U.S. recession sent the Dow Jones Industrial Index tumbling more than 1,000 points in early trading Monday and triggered a panic sell-off in financial markets around the world.Wall Street went into meltdown with the S&P 500 down 4 percent and Nasdaq dropping 5.5 percent. The Dow Jones slipped 3 percent, or 1,197 points by 9.35 a.m. Eastern.Earlier, the FTSE 100 index in London fell by 2.1 percent, and it was followed by the Nikkei 225 in Japan plunging by 12.4 percent, or 4,451 points, the biggest one-day points drop in history.In Paris, the CAC-40 fell by...

Stock Markets Crash Worldwide Over Fears of U.S. Recession

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Fear, long absent in financial markets as investors bet on a "soft landing" for the U.S. economy, is back in the air on Wall Street.Stocks tumbled Friday after new government data showed a steep decline in hiring in July, spurring concerns that economic activity is slowing faster than economists expected. Two hours into the session, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 984 points, or 2.4%, to 39,415. The broader S&P 500 sank 2.5%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost nearly 3%, fueled by disappointing quarterly earnings from bellwethers such as Amazon and Intel. Market analyst Adam Crisafulli of Vital Knowledge...

Dow plunges nearly 1,000 points amid sharp drop in U.S. hiring

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Markets end lower as investor seem to think the Fed has waited too long to cut rates. And they sold stocks hard in response.

Stock Market Today: Stocks crushed as markets see Fed rate error

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With over a year of interest rates continuing to remain above 5%, many investors appear to be taking a more defensive approach to portfolio construction. That’s not to say that capital is increasingly flowing into mega-cap companies that are generally considered to be safer due to their size. In fact, a rotation has been building […]
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3 Stocks That Will Pop From a Big Interest Rate Cut

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The tech-centric index is taking a break from its relentless run, but some stocks in the Nasdaq have much further to climb, according to Wall Street.

2 Nasdaq Stocks to Buy Before They Soar as Much as 226% According to Select Wall Street Analysts

Capital One is one of the few bank stocks left in Berkshire’s portfolio, and it trades below book value. NVR has been a beneficiary of a strong environment for homebuilders and could be a big winner as the housing market normalizes. Berkshire Hathaway itself could still be an excellent...

The Best Warren Buffett Stocks to Buy With $1,000 Right Now

Her flagship Ark Innovation ETF has sunk 21% year to date.

Cathie Wood buys $59 million of pummeled tech stocks

Walmart said inflation was flat in its latest quarter, and revenue growth came from selling more items and drawing more visits to its stores and website, rather than higher prices. Yet prices have remained high in some parts of the store, such as dry groceries and processed foods. Prices at...

Walmart says prices are coming down — except in one key area

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a recent talk at Stanford that tech giants are planning for increasingly large investments into Nvidia-based AI data centers. "I'm talking to the big companies, and the big companies are telling me they need $20 billion, $50 billion, $100 billion" in AI infrastructure, Schmidt said.

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt sees Nvidia as big AI winner: 'You know what to do in the stock market'

'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer weighs in on stock including: Global Foundries, Sentinel One, Clorox, Google, and Ferrari.

Lightning Round: I'm a buyer of Clorox, says Jim Cramer

My family is from the Greek island of Ikaria, a Blue Zone renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants. To us, garlic has long been more than "just" an ingredient. Garlic is one of the defining components of the Mediterranean diet. I use it every day at almost every meal when I cook for myself or my family. During the weeks I run my cooking classes on the island, we use so much of it that one of my kitchen assistants takes half a dozen or so heads of garlic home with her each night to peel and store in water for the following day.

On the Greek island of longevity, where people often live to 100, we swear by this ingredient: 'I use it every day'

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. Jewells Chambers doesn't look like a typical Icelander. In a country where 94% of people identify as native Icelandic, Chambers, a Black American woman, is among the other 6%.

38-year-old American expat lives on $73,000 in one of the world's most expensive countries: 'I feel safe, I feel at home'

As tech stocks continue to surge higher, John Stoltzfus of Oppenheimer Asset Management discusses what's driving that run-up, and compares it to rallies in the past.

Stoltzfus: Tech run-up is a watershed event

When you're interviewing for a job, "asking great questions is such an underrated way to differentiate yourself from everyone else," says Nolan Church, former Google recruiter and current CEO of salary data company FairComp. Good questions can help make the case for why you're a rockstar at work. But asking...

Always ask these 4 questions when you're interviewing for a job, says ex-Google recruiter

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Brad Conger of Hirtle Callaghan expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to signal a 25 basis point rate cut at its Jackson Hole meeting and says the European market has "better value" than the U.S. one.

European markets offer an 'extremely good bargain': Hirtle Callaghan

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck areas near Las Vegas on Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS). The quake, which occurred at 8:06 p.m., was centered approximately 45 minutes from Las Vegas, near Indian Springs.

Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Shakes Areas Near Las Vegas

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday offered his thinking on five stocks outside the Investing Club portfolio.

Tuesday's rapid fire: Home Depot, On Holding, Baxter, Hormel Foods and Micron

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

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Europe stocks higher to round off winning week; Sterling gains after slew of UK data

The regional benchmark is up more than 2% so far this week, putting it on course for its best performance since May 10. U.S. stocks have...

Europe stocks higher to round off winning week; Sterling gains after slew of UK data

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