Dividend-paying companies are rapidly closing the earnings growth gap with technology stocks and contributing more earnings momentum to the S&P 500. After a significant increase over the past year on this key earnings metric, the trend suggests that dividend stocks may present an even stronger case to investors seeking income and safety in a volatile…
After the Supreme Court struck down a large portion of President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda last month, the possibility of getting tariff dividend checks was seemingly discarded too, experts said. “Tariff dividends were a long shot from the beginning,” certified financial planner Stephen Kates, a financial analyst at Bankrate, told CNBC at the time. Any such broad-based benefit program would…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500’s oversold bounce could not hold on Friday, and the early gains were erased. The reason was oil, which was lower for…
People line up outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Three years ago, JPMorgan Chase executive Doug Petno was at a New York City party celebrating a colleague’s retirement when his boss, Jamie Dimon, called Petno over. It was March…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday warned panicked investors tempted to dump their portfolios due to Iran war-induced market volatility: Don’t follow the crowd off the ledge. “Even if the current situation is terrifying, remember that under almost all circumstances, it makes sense to stick with the market, if only because you’ll have a better chance…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. The Dow plunged more than 500 points on Thursday as oil prices continued to surge after Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said the Strait of Hormuz would stay…
Uber signage on a vehicle at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images For more than a decade, Alvaro Bolainez has ferried passengers around the Los Angeles area in his SUV as a rideshare driver. He’s never seen anything…
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is reducing its exposure to the private credit industry by marking down the value of loans held by the bank as…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks rebounded from early declines and oil tumbled to the low $80s after the International Energy Agency said it met with G7 Energy Ministers in Paris to…
Gas prices at a Shell Station located on Foothill Blvd. Robert Gauthier | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Rising oil prices may not just be a headwind to President Donald Trump’s fight to lower inflation. They could also undermine his signature legislative achievement. Almost all of the economic effect of the individual tax cuts…
