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☆ ESPN stands by report that NFL planned to restart game after Hamlin collapsed
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —ESPN is sticking by its reporting that the NFL had initially planned to resume Monday’s football game after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field – a claim the NFL vehemently denies. The NFL postponed Monday’s game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals following the on-field injury. But whether the NFL had at any point after Hamlin’s devastating injury planned to resume the game remains a subject of dispute and controversy. “There was constant communication in real time between ESPN and league and game officials,” the network said in a statement. All night long, we refrained from speculation.”Joe Buck, ESPN’s Monday Night Football announcer, told the New York Times in an interview Tuesday that he received reporting from John Parry, ESPN’s officiating analyst.

☆ How to make extra money as a reseller in 2023, from 3 people who turned their Poshmark and Facebook Marketplace side hustles into valuable income
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Many Americans are looking for ways to make extra income, and online reselling platforms have helped. Insider spoke with three women who have found success as resellers. They shared their stories, as well as advice they have for others looking to get started. As inflation continues to erode bank accounts, many Americans have explored work outside the traditional 9-to-5 to generate income. And some have embraced reseller platforms like Poshmark or Facebook Marketplace to earn extra cash or become full-time resellers.

☆ A 44-year-old who moved from California to Indiana saves $3,210 a month and thinks more people should consider living in the Midwest: 'LA is the glitz and glamour, but when you take that aside, are yo
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Vanessa Hughes recently moved to West Lafayette, Indiana, a city of 45,000 and a major university. In West Lafayette, she's paying half the amount for a significantly bigger space with a yard for their two dogs. In 2023, the search for affordable housing could pull more homebuyers towards Midwestern spots like West Lafayette. Michael Hickey/Getty ImagesBy the end of November, they had made the move to West Lafayette. West Lafayette is just one place that offers people incentives to move there.

☆ Soccer giants’ new owners may get tiny returns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Streisand Neto | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Financial Times reported that PSG’s Qatari owners wanted to offload 15% of the French champions. Recent deals valued the National Football League’s Denver Broncos and basketball’s Utah Jazz at over 9 times revenue, according to Forbes. Possible Man United, Liverpool and PSG owners might hope that the teams will eventually reach such valuation heights. Fenway Sports Group would consider new shareholders for Liverpool, having frequently received expressions of interest from third parties, the English Premier League club’s owners said on Nov. 7. The Financial Times reported on Nov. 28 that Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari owners were considering selling 15% of the club.

☆ If your raise this year was less than 7.1%, it didn't keep up with inflation — and you effectively got a pay cut
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wages have been going up this year, but so have prices — and prices are growing faster. Skyrocketing inflation has meant that a pay raise of 7.1% or below is essentially a pay cut. It's the time of year when annual raises come in, but if you didn't see a pay hike of at least 7.1%, you're effectively making less. But many workers haven't seen their real wages outpace inflation since 2021, even as they have more bargaining power than they've seen in decades. "If there are 100 chairs and 50 workers, workers are cool, man!"

☆ Crumbling tech stocks and recession fears have cratered the fortunes of the wealthiest Americans including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images; Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Getty Images; KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/Getty Images; Mike Cohen/Getty Images; Yuqing Liu/Business Insider1. Besides the fallen crypto king, many of these shrinking fortunes can be chalked up to this year's bloodbath in the tech stocks. How has Elon Musk's involvement with Twitter impacted your outlook for Tesla stock? Tesla stock price on December, 29, 2022 Markets Insider10. Tesla stock climbed Wednesday as dip-buyers poured into the EV maker.

☆ 3 tips for when your team is stuck and needs to think outside the box
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Cari Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Using mindfulness and noticing when your team is stuck can help activate expansive thinking. Expansive thinking encourages us to be more creativePolarity-driven thinking keeps us stuck. The simple theory of the Drama Triangle is that each of us plays two of three archetypes that provoke conflict, problems, and anxiety. Encourage them to let go of their "fixed" mindset and ask what archetype they might be playing in the drama triangle. Do it with expansive thinking to guide your way and move out of the contraction most of us live with daily.

☆ Use this calculation to find the best used car for your money — plus 10 models that come out on top
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The report then ranked those models based on the cost per remaining mile calculation to determine which used cars are the best deal. The 10 best used cars for the moneyIn the No. Overall, five Toyotas made the top 10 list of best 5-year-old used cars for the money, also including the Camry, Corolla and Avalon. He offered these five tips for anyone in the market for a used car. Being "basic" has its benefits: Going with widely popular models has an added advantage when it comes to buying a used car, Drury said.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried may have trouble getting a plea bargain as 'the buck presumably stopped with him,' former federal prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A plea bargain may be out of reach for Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a former federal prosecutor. The buck presumably stopped with him. But it's unclear if Bankman-Fried can point the finger at others. He could still offer a quick guilty plea, similar to what Bernie Madoff did in 2009 after his Ponzi scheme was exposed. But Madoff got a substantial sentence anyway, McGinley noted, so "the options here are very limited" for Bankman-Fried.

I can often get Disney gift cards at a discountBuying gift cards at a discount means paying less for the gift card than the face value of the card. If you pay any amount less than $50 for a $50 gift card, then that's a discounted gift card. If I buy a $100 Disney gift card at Target each month, I'll have $1,200 after a year. However, if a customer does not have a Cash App Card, they can instead convert their gift card to cash in the app. While Costco doesn't sell Disney gift cards, they sometimes have Landry's gift cards, which can be used at the Rainforest Café and T-Rex Café at Disney World.

☆ Here’s our third-quarter earnings report card for all the stocks in our portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +17 min

Third-quarter earnings season is finally behind us — and like the prior quarter, results were solid overall compared to analyst forecasts. Danaher (DHR) reported sales and earnings beats on the back of better-than-expected results in all three segments of the health technology company. While U.S. customer traffic was down in the quarter, management noted that it improved sequentially and improved throughout the quarter. Still the luxury hotel and casino company reported solid third-quarter results boosted by its U.S. properties. Amazon (AMZN) reported results that were disappointing, to say the least, and compounded by guidance that was even worse.

☆ What's next after a brutal year for tech? Market watchers share their views — and top stock picks
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

If you invested in tech stocks in 2022, chances are you're sitting on a loss right now. As they head into 2023, investors could be forgiven for thinking that the worst of the tech rout is over. Big Tech is 'not dead' Michael Yoshikami, founder and CEO of Destination Wealth Management, said Big Tech is "not dead," though it will take time to recover. Goldman Sachs and Citi also see pockets of opportunities within Big Tech, with both naming Amazon and Meta Platforms as their top picks for 2023. The sector has traditionally been viewed as a growth sector, but some analysts say tech stocks are now value stocks instead.

☆ Mike Sievert of T-Mobile is the CNN Business CEO of the Year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

T-Mobile’s solid performance on Wall Street was one big reason why CEO Mike Sievert is the CNN Business pick for CEO of the Year. CNN Business spoke to Sievert about how T-Mobile has continued to perform well in a super competitive business. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert talks to employees at a 2022 company event. That has led to higher expenses, but Sievert said T-Mobile is less worried about inflation than other consumer firms. Prepared for more competitionSievert, who has been with T-Mobile since 2012, took over as CEO in 2020 from long-time CEO John Legere.

☆ Pat Boone Is the Last of the Hollywood Squares
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Matthew Hennessey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HollywoodIf you’re under 50, you may not recognize the name Pat Boone . Consider this: For most of the latter half of the 20th century, there wasn’t a person in America who didn’t know who Mr. Boone was and what he stood for. He was the All-American; the kid in the white buck shoes; the clean-cut alternative to early rock-’n’-rollers like Elvis Presley , Little Richard and Chuck Berry; the star of a dozen Hollywood movies, none of which contained anything resembling profanity, social subversion or a love scene. Life magazine put Mr. Boone on its cover in February 1959, dubbing him “The Million-Dollar Idol of U.S. Teen-Agers.”

☆ Meet the little-known Google exec steering the company's $209 billion ad business through an uncertain economy and the minefield of privacy concerns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Ryan Joe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Jerry Dischler is steering Google's $209 billion ads business through major challenges. It falls to him to reinvent digital advertising to keep its $209 billion ad business going. At the same time, he has to keep growing Google's ad business amid increasingly dour spend forecasts. He went on to search ads in 2008, and by 2009, he was overseeing Google's team that developed new ad formats. Even when some parts of Google's ad business slows, as YouTube and Google network ads did last quarter, it gains strength in other areas, such as search.

☆ YouTube's NFL 'Sunday Ticket' deal is a win for traditional TV networks, too – here's why
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Traditional TV networks got what they wanted out of it, too. Google's YouTube TV bundle includes broadcast stations like CBS, Fox and NBC. Sports, and particularly the NFL, have long been considered the glue holding the traditional TV bundle together. YouTube TV had more than 5.3 million subscribers as of the third quarter, putting it above its competitors like Disney's Hulu Live TV+, Fubo TV and Dish's Sling, according to data from MoffettNathanson. "This is a win for YouTube TV as it serves a larger goal for them getting more subscribers.

☆ Japan govt revises up fiscal 2023 growth forecast on higher capex, wages
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Kantaro Komiya | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Private sector demands will drive growth in fiscal 2023," the government said in a statement, although warning of downside risks from an overseas economic slowdown, inflation, supply bottlenecks and market fluctuations. The official forecast was much higher than economists' median estimate of a 1.1% expansion in a recent Reuters poll. The government and the BOJ have repeatedly called for higher pay hikes as a key to Japan's post-pandemic economic growth with sustainable price inflation. Meanwhile, it raised its consumer inflation forecast to a 3.0% increase from 2.6% seen in July. Higher wage growth and a sustained solid economic recovery are crucial to how quickly the BOJ can unwind its massive monetary stimulus.

Dec 22 (Reuters) - Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer at investment and advisory firm Guggenheim Partners and a prominent Wall Street bond investor, has died, his firm said on Thursday. During his 25-year stint with Guggenheim, Minerd became a prolific commentator on financial markets and was often quoted by the media. He will be greatly missed by all," Mark Walter, chief executive and a founder of Guggenheim Partners, said in the firm's statement. Guggenheim said it had implemented a succession plan, with Anne Walsh, managing partner and CIO of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, assuming many of Minerd's responsibilities on an interim basis. Minerd was regarded in the past few years as one of the U.S. "bond kings," along with Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine, and Dan Ivascyn, chief investment officer of bond giant PIMCO.

☆ Cramer's lightning round: Teladoc Health is not a good situation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Loading chart...PagSeguro Digital Ltd : "We have to remember it's from Brazil, so therefore it's politically unstable. Loading chart...ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd : "These dividends are variable and can go down, and I don't want you to touch it." Loading chart...Teladoc Health Inc : "I've used the product, I like it very much, but it is not a good situation." Loading chart...ProPetro Holding Corp : "We like the oils that pay big yields because they have variable dividends, and I'm going to suggest that you buy Pioneer ." Loading chart...Kirby Corp : "It's a great idea, but you can buy that stock more cheaply if you just wait."

Your personal credit card data could be used for customized credit card rewards. What if your credit card started offering you enhanced rewards in personalized spending categories based on your past purchases? The future of personalized credit card rewardsYou're likely no stranger to having your personal data re-targeted to you. Personalized content and products already exist, so it makes sense for credit card programs to move in that direction too. For example, charity donations are becoming a more popular way for Gen Zers to redeem credit card rewards, but not all credit cards offer that as an option.

☆ Trump's tax returns were wheeled through the Capitol in a blue wagon ahead of a Ways and Means Committee hearing on their possible release
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Dem-controlled House Ways & Means Committee will decide whether to release Trump's tax returns. Democrats have been working since 2015 to gain access to the former president's financial documents. Lawmakers on the committee are set to vote Tuesday whether to publicly release Trump's returns, which he kept confidential during his campaign and presidency in a buck of recent tradition. It was unclear when exactly the returns would be released if the committee decides to make them public. Democrats on the committee have long been working to gain access to the former president's financial documents spanning from 2015 to 2020, while Republicans have framed the Democrats' fight as politically-motivated.

☆ Disney+ and Apple TV+ recently raised prices. Here are the streaming services that get you the most bang for your buck.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Streaming services are getting expensive. Netflix recently raised prices, as did Disney+. ReelgoodCombined, the nine major streaming services would cost consumers about $95 per month for the all-access, ad-free plans. Apple TV+ recently raised its price, but it's still one of the least-expensive major streaming services, as far as ad-free plans go (along with Discovery+). Disney+ recently raised the price of its ad-free plan after launching an ad-supported membership, making it more expensive than Paramount+ and Peacock, but still less expensive than HBO Max.

☆ How to create some financial freedom to do what matters most to you
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Maybe you want to step out of the workforce for a few years to be home with your kids. “For a lot of people [saving to buy] a first house is a catalyst for getting their whole financial life in order. Setting up your finances to support that goal can transform saving and investing from fulfilling an obligation to creating a financial freedom fund for yourself. Are you making smart decisions to deploy that capital across your financial opportunities?” Benz said. Or do you get satisfaction from cleaning and saving money?

☆ The best bang for your buck: These 10-year-old used cars cost less than $16,000 and could go for another 100,000 miles
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

When it comes to car buying, there may be fewer deals out there, but there is still plenty of value to be had. To that end, cost-conscious car shoppers are increasingly seeking out used vehicles in good condition. A certified pre-owned vehicle, usually one coming off a lease, often includes warranty coverage, which greatly reduces the worry that can also come with buying a used car. However, a limited supply of new cars and trucks due to the ongoing chip shortage caused demand for used cars to skyrocket, pushing prices much higher and reducing the value of buying pre-owned. Now, used cars are one of the few categories with prices that are finally lower than they were a year ago, according to the latest inflation reading.

☆ Jim Cramer says he likes Corteva and Nucor for 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday offered investors two stocks they should consider adding to their portfolios. Stocks in the materials sector tend to be highly cyclical, meaning they could get hammered if the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes tip the economy into a recession, he explained. And while it's far from the best-performing sector in the S&P 500, "even the weakest of these groups have some winners that managed to buck the overall trend and it's important to figure out if they can keep doing what they did [this year] in 2023," Cramer said. Here are his thoughts on his two stock picks:Corteva

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