Holiday Inn-owner InterContinental Hotels Group blamed lower business bookings in China and Hong Kong protests for a 0.8% fall in third-quarter revenue per room on Friday, the latest company to be pinched by weaker global travel. The hotel industry, in general, is feeling the impact of slowing global growth, which is denting business travel. Rival
Month: October 2019
Couple getting financial advice Getty Images Financial advisors are experts at helping clients plan for their futures. It turns out that many of these professionals often fall short when it comes to their own businesses. That’s according to a study from the Financial Planning Association, a professional membership organization, and SEI, a provider of wealth
Petri Artturi Asikainen | Getty Images Financial advisors do their best to counsel clients on sound approaches to financial decision making, yet no good wealth manager would claim to have a crystal ball. The only certainty is that no one can predict the future or time the market. Any advisor worth his or her salt
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 2, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Investors are preparing for more cautious capital investment outlooks from U.S. companies as worries mount heading into earnings season about the possibility of an
The Honeywell International sign sits outside of the company’s former global headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2007. (Photo by Daniel Barry/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International fell short of Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and cut its full-year sales forecast,
Co-founder and CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings Albert Llop | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him your friend. Netflix said today in its third-quarter earnings letter to shareholders that it welcomes upcoming competition from Apple, Disney, Comcast‘s NBC Universal, AT&T‘s WarnerMedia and others set to
Kenneth Fisher, chief executive officer of Fisher Investments, speaks at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Gillianne Tedder | Bloomberg | Getty Images The City of Boston is ending its relationship with Fisher Investments, pulling $248 million in pension assets from the firm. Mayor Martin Walsh announced on
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. Win McNamee | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren may have a new slogan: “Where’s the beef?” During
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images There are 618,000 millennial millionaires in the U.S. and their wealth is only expected to grow. Millennials are expected to be five times wealthier in the next decade than they are
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman slammed Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on their proposals to put an additional tax on the richest Americans. “Stop portraying billionaires as criminals,” Cooperman said on CNBC on Wednesday, the morning after Warren and Sanders in the latest Democratic debate cast themselves as the hardliners on tacking wealth
Peter Dazeley | Photographer’s Choice | Getty Images Here’s an awkward question for your spouse: Would you be willing to get divorced to save a few dollars? Proposed wealth taxes from presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are stirring up chatter around so-called strategic divorce to avoid the levy. The Tax Cuts and
An ATM is shown at company headquarters for the PNC Financial Services at One PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Getty Images PNC Financial Services posted a better-than-expected third-quarter profit on Wednesday, boosted by higher loan growth. The U.S. regional bank’s loan portfolio grew 6.5% to $237.4 billion, with commercial lending accounting for about 67% of total
The Bank of New York Mellon on Wall Street, New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Bank of New York Mellon reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, as the world’s largest custodian bank cut costs to counter weakness in its investment management business and lower interest rates. Fee revenue fell 1%, hurt by outflows since
The ideal tax rate for the richest 1% of Americans is about 75% — more than twice the current rates, according to the economist advising Sen. Elizabeth Warren on her tax plans. Gabriel Zucman, the University of California at Berkeley economist who is advising Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders on their wealth tax proposals, told
A United Airlines airplane takes off at Newark Liberty Airport. Gary Hershorn | Getty Images United Airlines Holdings on Tuesday raised its earnings forecast for the year as travel demand continued to climb, boosting shares in after-hours trading. The airline’s performance puts it “ahead of pace” to meet its per-share earnings goal of $11 to $13
Call it a financial frenzy. Big banks J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs kicked off earnings season with their reports Tuesday, with J.P. Morgan leading the pack and the broader market higher after surprising Wall Street to the upside. Experts, including Wells Fargo’s former CEO, were impressed by J.P. Morgan’s record revenue,
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Philippe Huguen | AFP | Getty Images This quarter is Netflix‘s calm before the storm. The streaming video giant will report its third-quarter earnings Wednesday for the last time before a slew of competitors debut services that could derail customer growth both in the U.S. and abroad. Netflix estimates it will
NEW YORK — Any average millionaire or billionaire can buy a Ferrari. But only a select group gets the privilege of buying a fully customized one — an honor that is becoming big business for the Italian carmaker. Ferrari this month opened its third “tailor-made center” in the world, a 6,600-square-foot showroom on Manhattan’s Park
John Hope Bryant, an advocate of economic empowerment through Operation Hope, wants Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to know that he would not have been successful without capitalism. “I think Bernie and Elizabeth mean well,” Bryant said on CNBC on Monday, regarding their criticism of how capitalism has led to
Towfiqu Photography | Moment | Getty Images If you can find your husband or wife online, why not your financial advisor? That’s why Andres Garcia-Amaya launched Zoe Financial, an online matchmaking engine that hooks up investors with registered investment advisors. A recent Stanford University study found that 39% of people surveyed met their spouse through
The state of Michigan has pulled $600 million of its pension fund from wealth management company Fisher Investments after the company’s founder and CEO Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a summit in San Francisco this week. At the Tiburon conference, Fisher compared his wealth management strategy to picking up women for sex, made explicit
Ken Fisher Crystal Mercedes | CNBC After a rough week, billionaire money manger Ken Fisher is apologizing. Fisher, who is best known to a broad audience for his distinctive TV ads, was accused in a viral tweet (well, as viral as a tweet in the financial advisor community can go) of making sexist comments while
Certified financial planner Ken Waltzer has an older female client who suffers from congestive heart failure. Given the high cost of her prescriptions, Waltzer recently became concerned by how much money she and her husband were spending. “I suggested that maybe I should talk to her doctor about her medications,” said Waltzer, co-founder and managing
The Royal Mint’s Raris payment card is made from 18-karat gold. The Royal Mint Britain’s Royal Mint has produced a solid gold payment card — and you’ll need to fork out £18,750 ($23,460) to buy one. The government-owned company, responsible for minting coins for the U.K., said it partnered up with Mastercard and payments technology
For all the worries that seem to plague the advisory business, one thing suggests it will continue to thrive: The demand for financial advice is, and will remain, strong. “I’m very bullish on the long-term success of the financial advice business,” said certified financial planner Evelyn Zohlen, head of Inspired Financial in Huntington Beach, California,
It’s evident that the financial advice business has evolved over the years. The industry continues to mature, and financial advisors are always finding ways to address and meet the demands of today’s investors. In fact, given the increased complexity of everyone’s financial lives, investors are eager to seek some help and education regarding income investment
Finding the right advisor to help with your financial needs and goals can be complicated. There are so many factors to assess. Many advisors will use a high asset under management as a selling point metric when marketing themselves to potential investors. However, AUM isn’t the whole story when a potential client is determining which
David Rea, president of No. 1-rated financial advisor firm Salem Investment Counselors, attributes his start in the business to excellent professors at Indiana University while he was pursuing an MBA. Salem Investment Counselors Everyone loves a good origin story, whether it’s fictional, like Superman’s, or real life — think Warren Buffett or Steve Jobs —
Strong travel demand, particularly from high-paying passengers, boosted Delta Air Lines‘ revenue and profits in the third quarter, but costs are on the rise, pressuring the carrier’s stock on Thursday. Delta shares were down close to 3% in midday trading after Delta forecast per-share earnings of $1.20 to $1.50 in the last three months of
Richard Allison, CEO of Domino’s Pizza, speaks at CNBC’s Evolve conference in Chicago on Sept. 24, 2019. Jeff Schear | CNBC Amid growing competition from third-party delivery apps, Domino’s Pizza slashed its long-term sales outlook and reported quarterly earnings and revenue that fell short of estimates. CEO Ritch Allison told investors that the company changed