Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Will the Nasdaq Surge End in Another Tech Wreck?
It's feeling like 1999 again. The Clintons are in the headlines. Everyone is enamored with new technologies (VR, autonomous vehicles, robotics). And the sluggish pace of rate hikes from the Federal...
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How Apple Could Put Your Favorite Website Out of Business
By Andrew LumbyFor media companies and other businesses that rely on web advertising for income, ad-blocking has long been a scourge that threatens their livelihood. Thankfully for them, though, ad-blockers such as...
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Here’s What Will Rock the Stock Market Next
By Patti Domm, CNBCEarnings season may not give investors that warm and fuzzy feeling this quarter. For the first time in six years, earnings are in a real decline, expected to be negative with a 2.9 percent drop in S...
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The Pros and Cons of Holding Large Stakes in Apple
By David Randall, ReutersAt more than 15 percent of his fund's assets, John Burnham, manager of the $136 million Burnham Fund, has a larger stake in Apple Inc than any other diversified fund. "I think they are doing...
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Apple’s App Store Bigger Than Hollywood Box Office
By Amey StoneOn Tuesday, Apple posted the largest quarterly profit of any company in history. Its $18 billion net income, up from $13 billion a year ago, is mainly due to selling 74.5 million iPhones in the...
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Apple’s App Store Bigger Than Hollywood Box Office
By Amey StoneOn Tuesday, Apple posted the largest quarterly profit of any company in history. Its $18 billion net income, up from $13 billion a year ago, is mainly due to selling 74.5 million iPhones in the...
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Why Google Keeps Struggling Against Facebook
By John Melloy, CNBCShares of Google may struggle in coming years as the company faces a maturing search business, lower margins in other products and increased competition from Facebook , according to a Wall Street...
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CES 2015: Prepare for 3D Printers and VR
By Cnbc Staff, CNBCDon't hold your breath for any completely brand new technologies coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show this year, as the focus among the 3,500 vendors will be more on improving—...
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Why 2015 May Be the Year of the Ear for Wearables
By Nyshka Chandran, CNBCForget smartwatches and the Google Glass - 2015 may be the year of the ear for wearable technology. "There's some interesting information you can capture through the ear. We've been looking at things...
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How Apple Won Christmas 2014 — and the Year in Mobile
Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through...
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Why Apple, with $145 Billion in Cash, Wants to Borrow Money
The answer is simple: to avoid paying taxes. By paying low interest rates on its debt and being able to deduct that interest from its U.S. tax bill, Apple will reduce its overall cost of capital.
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Why Bill Miller Turned Bullish on Apple
By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal TimesA year ago, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the biggest, brightest, shiniest stock in the market, with analysts competing to boost their price targets to $700 a share and even higher, forming what some Wall...
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 Fails to Reboot PC Business
The latest report on personal computer shipments included a double dose of bad news for Microsoft. Not only are PC sales flagging in the face of competition from smartphones and tablets – areas in...
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States Eye $11 Billion Windfall from Online Sales Tax
By Daniel Vock, StatelineThe days of shopping online without paying sales taxes may be ending. States are cracking down and a nationwide system for collecting sales tax on online sales may be coming soon.
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Analysts See Potential for More Gains in Stock Market
By Ryan Vlastelica, ReutersAnalysts see potential for more gains in the U.S. stock market, based on metrics like earnings prospects and valuation. The forward 12-month price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is currently...