Brian Belski, Chief Investment Strategist at BMO Capital Markets, joins 'Halftime Report' to explain why he'd rather be in Visa over Mastercard.

Trade Tracker: Brian Belski sells Mastercard

Many Buffett followers made the curious observation after a regulatory "13-F" filing Wednesday night revealed. 's equity holdings at the end of the second quarter. It showed an identical 400 million share count in Apple and Coca-Cola, Buffett's oldest and longest stock position. It's prompted some to believe that the...

Warren Buffett did something curious with his Apple stock holding

Jim Lebenthal, Chief Equity Strategist at Cerity Partners, joins CNBC's "Halftime Report" to explain his recent buy in the industrial sector.

Trade Tracker: Jim Lebenthal buys CRH

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According to cruise industry reports, the world's largest cruise ship is sailing well above 100% capacity, thanks to more beds being filled on recent sailings. Royal Caribbean’s newest flagship, the Icon of the Seas, is proving to be an unprecedented success, with occupancy rates far exceeding expectations.

The Largest Cruise Ship in the World is Sailing at 132% Capacity: How This is Even Possible

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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

As new government data shows inflation subsiding, Social Security beneficiaries may expect a lower cost-of-living adjustment in 2025. The prospective Social Security COLA for 2025 could be the lowest since 2021, according to a new estimate. Even as new government inflation data shows inflation subsiding, many retirees are still struggling...

Social Security cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.6% in 2025, new estimate finds

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

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'

Gold prices pared gains on Thursday as the dollar and Treasury yields rose after stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data that could influence the size of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Spot gold inched higher 0.6% at $2,461.36, after rising as much as 0.9% earlier in the session. U.S. gold...

Gold pares gains as dollar, bond yields climb after strong U.S. data

Jeff deGraaf, Renaissance Macro Research, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss under-the-surface market moves.

Renaissance's Jeff deGraaf breaks down what he's seeing in the charts for under-the-surface stocks

Shares of Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic jumped as much as 17% Thursday amid a wider rally for associated healthcare stocks. It comes after the World Health Organization declared an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa as a public health emergency. Medical tools supplier Precision System Science Co soared 40% in...

Health stocks jump as WHO declares mpox global health emergency

When Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer interviews job applicants, he likes to ask a couple of his favorite questions. First: What's the biggest misperception other people have of you? You can't respond "unless you're willing to share the real you," the restaurateur told organizational psychologist Adam Grant during a March talk at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was released as an episode on Grant's "WorkLife" podcast last week.

Shake Shack founder shares the 2 interview questions he likes asking job candidates: They make you ‘share the real you’

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Nevada is surging in popularity as a global center of family trusts and a friendly home to the world's biggest fortunes. The Western state's advantage puts it at the forefront of a massive wealth surge pouring into the asset-protection trusts. At the center of the Murdoch case is the Murdoch...

Murdoch family battle highlights Nevada’s secret trust boom

In 2020, Kristina Knighten, 38, and her husband, Paul Cordier, 46, closed on their dream home in Lago d'Iseo, Italy. They bought the two-bedroom house for 23,000 euros, or $24,973, at the time. "It looked like a house you drew when you were a kid with the pitched roof, the...

This couple lives in an apartment in Italy that sat mostly abandoned for 22 years—take a look inside

A "record-breaking backlog" of pending actions has led to an estimated $1.1 billion in improper beneficiary payments, according to a new report. Experts say the Social Security Administration needs more funding in its budget to properly address a "customer service crisis." The Social Security Administration faces a "record-breaking backlog" of...

'Record-breaking backlog' leads to $1.1 billion in improper Social Security payments, report finds

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CAMDEN, N.J. – Lisa Smith, 61, of Cornelius, North Carolina, has admitted to her role in a fraudulent scheme involving over $3.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today that Smith pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Karen M. Williams in Camden federal court on July 17, 2024, to a charge of bank fraud conspiracy.

Woman Pleads Guilty to $3.5M COVID Relief Scam

Mark Carnegie, founding partner of M.H. Carnegie & Co, told CNBC that Japanese regional banks could face a situation worse than the 2023 U.S. banking crisis.

The 'carry trade' unwind has barely begun, investor says

People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anemic, government statistics show. Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Tuesday showed that 131,200 people departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2024, provisionally the highest on record for an annual period. Around a third of these were headed to Australia.

People leave New Zealand in record numbers as economy bites

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If you prefer hiking the Appalachian Mountains over lounging on coastal beaches, this year's least-expensive state to retire may be a good fit for you. For the second year in a row, West Virginia is the most affordable state for retirement in the U.S., according to financial services company Bankrate's best and worst states for retirement report, which published last month.

The 10 most affordable U.S. states for retirement in 2024: Half are in the South

Vice President Kamala Harris will propose the first-ever federal ban on "corporate price-gouging" in the food industry, her campaign announced. Harris will also pledge that if elected, she will direct the Justice Department to increase scrutiny of potential mergers between grocers and food producers. The ban is part of a...

Final Trades: Deckers, Goldman Sachs, Fiverr and Cheniere Energy

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