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☆ Best way to make regular income from stocks — plus, how to use our trade alerts
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

1: What is the best, most efficient way to make a regular monthly income in stocks? The Club does not own any Treasurys but loves dividend stocks and strives to own them. Tracking the dividend yield on a stock is a way to look at the payout as a percentage like a bond yield. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. 1: What is the best, most efficient way to make a regular monthly income in stocks?

Persons: Jim Cramer, Chris, Jim, Tom, Nelson Peltz Organizations: Big Tech, Investment Club, Tom Trade, CNBC, Disney

☆ Early recruitment for investment-banking internships left students scrambling this year. Here are 15 ways to get ahead of the ultra-competitive process.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

But never had one come this early — one year and eight months ahead of said internship’s start date. While it has always been competitive, the investment banking summer internship process has gotten increasingly premature. As a result, wannabe financiers may want to start getting ready for the process as early as their freshman year. The Internship movieNetwork with upperclassmen firstNetworking is one of the most important aspects of getting a competitive investment banking internship. “A lot of kids don't realize they don't want to do it until they’ve done it for 10 weeks after the internship,” Sibley said.

Persons: Steve Sibley, ” Sibley, Goldman Sachs, Sibley, ”, —, they’re, it’s, you’ll, “, ’ inboxes, You’ll, ‘, ’, Goldman, Don’t, Carlo Allegri, don’t, there's, might’ve, “ I’m, Sturti, you’re, It’s, you'll, would've Organizations: Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, Business, “, Finance, Bank of America, Citi, BI, Investment, Excel, IB, LinkedIn, Goldman, Getty, Lazard, Reuters, I’m Locations: “, New York City, Manhattan, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston, New York

☆ I made about $500,000 in 12 months from the free Substack I started in college. Here's how I scaled it into paid content in 6 months.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I started an investigation into a companyIn my spare time, I started an investigation into a publicly traded company called Care.com, an online babysitting platform. I started my newsletter to get employers' attentionAfter the Care.com story, I decided to start a free newsletter in February 2020, when I was a senior, as a way to get attention from employers. Every Sunday, I'd recap news about short selling in my free newsletter called The Bear Cave. One month into launching the paid newsletter, I saw the business model worked and it could be a full-time job. The Bear Cave now has 53,000 free readers and 1,000 paid subscribers, and I made about $500,000 in revenue over 12 months.

Persons: Edwin Dorsey, Harvey Weinstein, It's Organizations: Street, SEC, YouTube Locations: New York

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock Thursday
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Dow stock Walmart (WMT) delivers a big quarterly beat. We increased our Club price target to $100 per share from $88 . As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

Persons: Chuck Robbins, Mark Cuban's CostPlus, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim Organizations: Dow, Nasdaq, Investment, Walmart, Walmart U.S, Target, Wall Street, TJX Companies, Marshalls, Cisco, Disney, ESPN, Apple, Amazon Pharmacy, Bank of America, Adobe, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC Locations: HomeGoods, TJX's, California

☆ Price targets, stocks to watch, profit-taking strategies — answers to questions about all three
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

We will only consider more general questions about the investment process or stocks in the portfolio or related industries. A stock's multiple (and we like looking at the forward multiple) is calculated by dividing the current shares price by earnings estimates for the next 12 months. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

Persons: Jim Cramer, Marc M, Price, It's, Brian The, Donna M, you've, Jim Cramer's, Jim Organizations: Natural Resources, Coterra, Microsoft, CTRA, MSFT, Investment, Club, Charitable, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC Locations: PXD

☆ Subomi Plumptre: A woman on a mission to build prosperity in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Susan Williams For Cnn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

However, one woman says she has made it her life’s mission to empower Africa’s squeezed middle class. She is the co-founder of Volition Cap, an investment cooperative that aims to help Africans build wealth and financial stability. But the middle class are the ones that create the most small and medium scale enterprises. So my focus on the middle class is actually very deliberate, because I realize that the middle class is the economic destiny of Africa,” Plumptre told CNN. That was what happened to my parents.”This tragedy made Subomi realize that she, like many middle class individuals, lacked a safety net when faced with critical emergencies.

Persons: Africa’s, Cap, Plumptre, ” Plumptre, “, ” Organizations: CNN, African Development Bank Group, International Labour Office, World Bank, SEC Locations: Nigeria, Africa, Europe, America

☆ First investment, cost basis, selling 'dogs' — we answer 3 questions from members
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

We will only consider more general questions about the investment process or stocks in the portfolio or related industries. However, it's important to also consider a company's underlying fundamentals and not just the stock price. After all, price is what you pay and value is what you get, so it's important to consider whether the stock price reflects the business fundamentals. For us, that might be Apple (AAPL) and Nvidia (NVDA) as we've designated these "own, don't trade" stocks. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: Jim Cramer, — Sandi D, — Scott K, you've, —, whittle, Jim, NVDA, — Keith, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer Rob Kim Organizations: investingclubmailbag, Investment Club, New Orleans, Apple, Nvidia, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC

☆ A healthtech startup is using AI to treat obesity. See the 10-slide presentation Alfie Health used to get funding from Y Combinator.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Alfie Health built an algorithm to create personalized treatment plans for obesity. Alfie Health is jumping in the ring with perhaps the only selling point in healthcare right now that's hotter than weight-loss medications — artificial intelligence. Alfie Health runs as a virtual obesity-care clinic to provide video visits with doctors and health coaches, with individual treatment plans developed using ObesityRx. In June, Alfie Health raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Y Combinator and Nina Capital. Here's the presentation Alfie Health used to raise $2.1 million.

Persons: Alfie Health, Combinator, Alfie Health's, Alexander Singh, Y Combinator, Nina Capital, Alfie, Singh, Wegovy Organizations: Nina, Goodwater, Phoenix Investment Club Locations: GLP

CNBC's annual Stock Draft kicked off Thursday on "Power Lunch," with candidates opting for a wide range of stocks from AI to consumer plays. Nvidia WWE wrestler Charlotte Flair bet on artificial intelligence with her first pick: Nvidia. Amazon Olympic swimmer Erica Sullivan picked Amazon, saying she likes the e-commerce giant's service and uses it regularly. General Electric Sullivan chose General Electric for her second pick. General Electric shares are higher by more than 49% in 2023.

☆ A D.E. Shaw internship could land a dream gig at the secretive hedge fund. Here's what it takes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Michelle Abrego | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Shaw's recruiting head, took us inside the firm's process for finding talent. Shaw Group is one of the highest-grossing, and most secretive, hedge funds on Wall Street, with $60 billion under management. Launched by former Columbia University computer-science professor David Shaw above a small left-wing bookshop in lower Manhattan in 1988, D.E. The interview process includes an initial video interview, a case study or coding test (depending on the internship), a second round of video interviews, and a reference check. At any point in the process, candidates might even be steered toward an internship other than the one they applied to that could better align with the candidate's skills and interests.

☆ A summer internship at D.E. Shaw can pay up to $20,000 a month. Here's what it takes to land a coveted spot.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Michelle Abrego | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

☆ Inside Citadel's internship program for aspiring traders that paves the way for a six-figure salary at the elite hedge fund after college
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds, accepts just 1% of applicants to its associate program. Few college students know what a hedge fund is, let alone that they want to work for one. Its associate program lets aspiring fund managers skip the traditional two-year investment banking program that is usually a prerequisite for a hedge fund job. The associate program is different from Citadel's broader internship program. But the accelerated nature of the CAP program appealed to him over other opportunities, he said.

☆ Investing Club mailbag: Why kill jobs and wreck portfolios to beat inflation?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

It's certainly an important question, and one many investors are likely asking after a year of rate hikes and falling stock prices. The major fear is not only that inflation stays high if the Fed fails to act decisively; it could also accelerate. Rather than taking steps to combat inflation — which have in turn crushed equity prices — we allow inflation to run hot. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

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