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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’Even before making its way to theaters, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — the long-awaited sequel to the 2018 film starring Chadwick Boseman — has birthed some of this fall’s biggest pop culture moments, including a Rihanna song drop. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 11. “The Inspection” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 18. “Bones and All” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 23. “Strange World” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 23.

☆ Goldman Sachs shares exactly how to position your stock portfolio as a make-or-break Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Goldman Sachs shared the investing playbook it recommends following right now. Since 1974, those three groups have had the best relative performance to the S&P 500 during periods of weak economic growth, Kostin wrote. "Our economists expect GDP to decelerate further, and risks to their forecast are tilted downward," Kostin wrote in the note. Goldman SachsFinally, Goldman Sachs recommends that investors avoid the following sectors and industries: technology hardware, industrials, media & entertainment, semiconductors, automobiles & components, and materials. Those parts of the market are economically sensitive and will be disproportionately hurt if the economic slowdown worsens, Kostin wrote.

☆ ‘Africa on its own’: Little help in epidemics, says official
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Africa must plan to respond effectively to disease outbreaks without international help, a top public health official said Wednesday, warning that the continent of 1.3 billion people is “on its own” during pandemics. “This is not the first outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola virus here in Africa and particularly here in Uganda,” he said. He said no help has come to Africa, where more monkeypox deaths have been reported this year than anywhere in the world. “Recently, during the pandemic, when we saw the number of monkeypox cases growing here in Africa, we issued a global alert but no help came to Africa,” he said. “In fact, today, as we see the tail end of the pandemic, there’s still no help coming to Africa for monkeypox.

☆ Here’s our October rapid-fire update on all 34 stocks in Cramer’s Charitable Trust portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Here's a rapid-fire update on every stock in the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. For Club members who are seeking income, we think a stock like Devon represents a better option than, say, AbbVie. (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

☆ Stock market inflows hit near-records last week suggesting that investors think the bottom is in, Bank of America says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Investors are acting like they think the bottom is in for stocks, Bank of America said in a Tuesday note. BofA clients poured $6.1 billion into US stocks last week, representing the third largest inflow since 2008. The bank tracks the trading activity of its clients, which include hedge funds, institutional, and private investors. The stock buying was broad-based by BofA's clients, with inflows into both individual stocks and ETFs across various sectors and styles. One group of BofA's clients that could drive further buying into year-end is corporations with stock buyback programs.

☆ EXCLUSIVE Chevron offering minority stakes in three Alaskan oilfields
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Shariq Khan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The company is offering stakes in three oilfields, it confirmed. It holds around 10% in Alaska's Endicott field, 5% in Kuparuk field and 1.2% in Prudhoe Bay. However, at current oil prices, a sale would likely fetch between $450 million and $550 million, according to a Rystad Energy analyst using comparable transactions. The properties offered include interests in pipelines in the Kuparuk and Endicott fields, according to the marketing document. The oilfields that Chevron is offering produce around 9,400 barrels of oil and gas per day.

☆ Jim Cramer's Guide to Investing: Principles to help you manage your portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-06 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +40 min

At the CNBC Investing Club, we strive to help members manage their own portfolios by showing them how we do it. Principles 1-5 Principles 6-10 Principles 11-15 Principles 16-20 Principles 21-25 1. The reality is, you want to buy stocks that you believe will go higher, and sell those you believe will go lower. Don’t buy all at once; arrogance is a sin Accept that you will never be correct 100% of the time and use that knowledge to your advantage. Expect corrections; don’t be afraid of them When it comes to the stock market, eventually a correction will happen.

☆ A Yale professor's new book sheds light on a seemingly obvious way to negotiate
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-13 | by ( Jonathan A. Knee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Barry Nalebuff's lively and elegant new book, "Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate," feels particularly timely. This makes the publication of Barry Nalebuff's lively and elegant new book, "Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate," particularly timely. Despite the provocative subtitle, Nalebuff's approach is neither radical nor new. This is the real value of Nalebuff's approach. "Split the Pie" makes a similar point when it highlights that "reputational concerns reinforce the incentive to split the pie."

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