Keep buying S&P 500 as US exceptionalism goes 'from strength to strength' - SocGen© Reuters

Analysts at SocGen told investors in a note Thursday to keep buying the S&P 500 as “US exceptionalism is going from strength to strength.”

The bank’s comments follow the Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, which saw the US central bank hold steady on interest rates and stick with its forecast for three interest rate cuts this year

Fed Chair Jerome Powell still projected some caution over sticky i...

Bitcoin Consolidation A Case Of 'Peaking Pre-Halving:' Analyst Says King Crypto Has A 'Long, Massive Bull Market Ahead'© Provided by Benzinga

King Crypto Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has experienced a nearly 7% drop over the past week. However, a prominent crypto analyst suggests that this correction is part of a larger cycle.

What Happened: Michaël van de Poppe, a well-known cryptocurrency analyst, has shared his insights on Bitcoin’s recent price movements.

Van de Poppe believes that the recent d...

        

Jenny Woo's side hustle, a card game business called Mind Brain Emotion, brought in $1.71 million on Amazon last year.© Provided by CNBC

Jenny Woo's four streams of income have taught her a few important lessons: how to start side hustles, sustain them and make them more lucrative.

Woo is a 42-year-old ex-corporate consultant and Montessori school administrative director who lectures at the University of California, Irvine, runs an online emotional intelligence course and freelances as...

When I started my side hustle, I didn't have a mentor, a big social media following, or any startup capital. I just had a drive to help people find great careers, and advice from some of my favorite books. 

In 2022, I quit my six-figure recruiting job at Amazon to grow my YouTube channel and launch my business, PayBump. I make videos about remote work and unique income streams, and create kits to help people make their resumes and cover letters shine.

Today, my business brings in $143,000 a mon...

Looking to supplement your income with The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) dividends? Aiming for $500 monthly? Here’s how much you need to invest.

Coca-Cola's Financial Snapshot

As of Jan 18, Coca-Cola's shares were trading at $59.70. The company, with a market cap of $258 billion experienced a 52-week range between $64.99 and $51.55.

Analyzing Coca-Cola's Dividend Payouts

During the third quarter of 2023, Coca-Cola announced a dividend of $0.46 per share, a slight increase from $0.44 in the same p...

A couple of small-cap stocks that have the potential to achieve significant gains next year are InMode (NASDAQ: INMD) and Bitfarms (NASDAQ: BITF). Here's why t...

There are several factors that contribute to making the road to riches more difficult for women, one of them being the gender pay gap. Overall, women working full-time earn 83 cents for every $1 that men working full-time earn, and the gap is wider for women of color, a TIAA study found.

Ye...

At first, Kelly Ifill had no interest in following in her family's footsteps.

Her father has a long-running contracting business. Her grandmother ran a cleaning service. Her aunt, uncle and even some cousins have experienced the highs and lows of running a small business.

"I had no interest in being an entrepreneur," Ifill, 37, tells CNBC Make It with a chuckle. "I was like, 'I don't want that. It looks hard!'" Instead, she was a schoolteacher, then an MBA candidate and a staffer for seed-stage...

on't miss CoinDesk's Consensus 2022, the must-attend crypto & blockchain festival experience of the year in Austin, TX this June 9-12.

Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) lost pivotal support levels in the past 24 hours amid weakening sentiment for the broader crypto market – a move that caused over $520 million in liquidations, data shows.

Ether-tracked futures lost upwards of $236 million, nearly double those of $125 million on bitcoin futures. The losses were unusual for ether, which mostly sees...

The real estate investment platform Arrived Homes had its latest batch of rental properties scheduled to be released at 11:00 AM EDT today, but the rush of new investors eager to buy shares of the new properties caused the website to crash just minutes after the launch.

The company launched 13 new properties, ...

Rick Ross has some questions for crypto-millionaires.

“That’s the thing about Rick Ross — that’s the thing about the bawse,” he said in a recent Instagram story. “The metaverse. Crypto. Y’all gettin’ so much money, where you at? Where you at? Show us! And I don’t mean ‘I’m tryna get money.’ Yo, man, I got a lot of money … But show us. Show my homies what the metaverse [is] about. Y’all big boy crypto dudes! … All that fake rich money, where it’s at?”

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Teladoc stock imploded by 48% on Thursday after the tele-health company reported first-quarter results that included a massive loss and weaker 2022 guidance.

The company reported a loss of $41.58 per sha...

Despite being worth $26.7 billion, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of crypto exchange FTX, drives a Toyota Corolla, slee...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren’t just for adults; they’re for the youth, too!

According to The Advocate, NFTs came to Mya Parker’s rescue as she started creating them while recovering from a torn ACL. What was initially a newfound hobby that focused on her interests in art and investing has transformed the 15-year-old into a full-blown businesswoman. The outlet reports that Parker has made more than $10,000 from selling her NFTs.

“I would never have had the time to do all this before I...

Major coins traded higher over 24 hours as the global cryptocurrency market cap rose 1.9% to $1.8 trillion.

© Provided by BenzingaBitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin On The Rise — Sorry To Play Debbie Downer But Here's Why These Analysts Refuse To Sound The All-Clear Alarm

Metaverse play Decentraland (MANA) was the top 24-hour gainer, accor...

Major coins traded higher over 24 hours as the global cryptocurrency market cap rose 1.9% to $1.8 trillion.

© Provided by BenzingaBitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin On The Rise — Sorry To Play Debbie Downer But Here's Why These Analysts Refuse To Sound The All-Clear Alarm

Metaverse play Decentraland (MANA) was the top 24-hour gainer, accor...

In 2021, Brittany Pierre made over $109,000 selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, of her photography and flipping other NFTs she bought for a profit.

But before that, Pierre was struggling to pay rent on her Chicago apartment or afford groceries and bus fare, she tells CNBC Make It.

Her financial situation was very “touch and go,” Pierre, 36, says. She lived paycheck to paycheck and “got pretty depressed.”

In March, Pierre learned about nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Her friend and fellow a...

A Black woman is bringing a boutique hotel made of shipping containers to Indianapolis in the summer of 2022. 

© Provided by TravelNoireA Black-Owned Boutique Hotel Made Of Shipping Containers Opens In Indianapolis This Summer

Robin Staten, an Indy native, is the owner of Tiny Urban Escapes – a one-of-a-kind experience that’s transforming up-cycled shipping containers into micro semi-glass private suites. 

“This goes beyond hospitality,” Staten told the Indy Star.  “The intent is to t...

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It was an outcome that anyone familiar with the terms "tulip trading" or "Beanie Babies" could see coming: Cryptocurrency is crashing. Prices for cryptocurrencies "have cratered since reaching all-time highs in early November, wiping out an astonishing $1.35 trillion in value globally, nearly half of the total market," the Washington Post reports.

The whole thing had an air of a pyramid scheme to it. Media hype...

We’ve all heard the stories about Black millionaires making their dreams come true through impossible odds. But Jherrod Thomas of the Tomco Service Group has a very different story.

The 32-year-old engineer from Mississippi is a walking testament that success can be achieved through hard work, dedication, and a 9-to-5 job.

Yes, you read that correctly: a 9-to-5 job. That’s not something the Instagram hustling crowd necessarily wants you to hear or see, but it still is quite relevant — and...

China’s enhanced crackdown on crypto has forced the world’s second-largest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) mining pool to suspend operations.

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What Happened: Sparkpool, the second-largest Ethereum mining pool by hash rate, announced Monday it would be suspending all services in an effort to comply with regulatory requirements.

The Hangzhou-based mining pool had already suspended mining services for new China-based miners as of Friday but now plans to extend its ban to existing ...

Dog-themed cryptocurrencies continued to widen losses, while so-called Ethereum (ETH) killers and non-fungible token or NFT oriented coins were buoyant in the early hours of Thursday at press time.

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What Happened: SHIBA INU (SHIBA) was down 12.88% at $0.0000089 at press time in a span of 24 hours. In the same period, the meme cryptocurrency fell 9.4% and 9.16% against Bitcoin (BTC) and ETH, respectively.

Dogecoin (DOGE) too traded in the red, down 5.67% in a 24-hour period...