Big bargains will dominate the holiday season, but shoppers may not be sold

People walk stores offering sales at a shopping mall in Santa Anita, California on December 20, 2021. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Grocery and energy prices have spiked, and credit card interest rates are climbing, but shoppers can expect some relief as they start holiday shopping. Retailers, desperate to coax inflation-fatigued consumers…

U.S. consumer is soldiering on despite soaring inflation and recession risk, credit card giants say

In this article AXP BAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shoppers carry bags in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. consumers have demonstrated a willingness to continue to pay higher prices in the face of a sluggish economy that could be tipped into…

3 takeaways from our daily meeting: Stocks rally, earnings move Club names, sticking with DHR

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. Stocks rally Earnings move Club names Sticking with DHR 1. Stocks rally Stocks rallied Friday on the back of a Wall Street Journal report suggesting the Federal Reserve could potentially…

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Snap, American Express, Verizon, Twitter and more

S3 Studio | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Snap — Shares of the Snapchat parent company cratered 28.1% after it missed revenue estimates and saw its slowest sales growth since going public as advertising spending slows. The results from Snap hit other ad-reliant stocks, sending shares of Pinterest and…

Mark Cuban says this was always his ‘driving motivation’—and it’s not money

Becoming a billionaire means caring a lot about making money, right? Wrong, says Mark Cuban. As Cuban built the tech companies in the 1990s that would eventually make him exorbitantly wealthy, he never prioritized personal riches, he told GQ on Wednesday. “I never, ever thought in terms of money,” he said. Instead, Cuban said his…

Investors will be able to contribute up to $22,500 in 401(k) plans and $6,500 in IRAs in 2023

Getty Images If you’re eager to save more for retirement in 2023, there’s good news from the IRS, which just announced higher limits for your annual 401(k) plan and individual retirement account contributions. The employee contribution limit for 401(k) plans is increasing to $22,500 in 2023, up from $20,500, and catch-up deposits for savers age…

Here’s why a new $40,000 electric vehicle tax credit for business owners may be relatively easy to get

Electric buses at a charging station. Koiguo | Moment | Getty Images Business owners will be able to avail themselves of a new tax credit for electric vehicles starting next year — and it should be easier to get than a similar tax break for consumer households buying “new clean” passenger cars, according to tax…

Social Security benefits are set to rise by more than $140 per month in 2023. Here’s how to find out how much more money you may receive

Xavierarnau | E+ | Getty Images Social Security benefits will go up by more than $140 per month on average in 2023, as a record 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment kicks in. Exactly how much of an increase the approximately 70 million Americans who rely on the program for income will see will vary. More than 65…

International Tax Competitiveness Index 2022

Table of Contents Note: Each year we review and improve the methodology of the Index. For that reason, prior editions are not comparable to the results in this 2022 edition. All data and methodological notes are accessible in our GitHub repository. Below is a preview of the 2022 Index. To access the full report, click the download…