Pekic | E+ | Getty Images The $1.7 trillion outstanding federal student loan market tends to get most of the headlines, but another type of education debt has also been on the rise: private student loans. Many college students have likely heard about the financing option. “Private lenders advertise all over, including on TV, radio
            
          In this article SNAP AMZN CLX PINS F RIVN The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Amazon — Shares of Amazon popped more than 18% after hours following a strong quarterly report. The company reported
            
          Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that the chipmaker views the so-called metaverse as much more than just the next frontier for social media. “The metaverse is going to develop as a number of different opportunities,” Amon said in an interview on “Mad Money,” appearing one day after the company’s posted
            
          In this article F Ford Motor Co. signage at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor‘s shares slid after it reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that significantly missed Wall Street’s earnings expectations and slightly missed on revenue. The company’s shares tumbled by
            
          It’s time to let the young, healthy and “anyone who wants to move on” from the pandemic do so, said Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor at Harvard Medical School. In a paper posted on LinkedIn last month, Kales said that for the majority of children and adults, “Covid-19 is not a serious threat, only a
            
          CEO Rafal Modrzewski inspects some of the company’s satellite hardware. ICEYE Finnish satellite imagery venture ICEYE brought in new funds, the company announced on Thursday, as it looks to add to its spacecraft fleet in orbit and build out its growing natural catastrophe detection product line. ICEYE closed an $136 million round of venture capital
            
          Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Used-car prices may be starting to soften, research suggests. After surging through the pandemic by as much as 50%, prices in the used-car market showed some easing in the last three weeks of January, according to car-shopping app CoPilot, which tracks daily prices at dealerships across the country.
            
          A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures rose in overnight trading Thursday as investors digested a slew of corporate earnings reports after the Nasdaq Composite posted its worst day in more than a year. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained about 200 points, or 0.6%.
            
          Earlier this month, JAMA Internal Medicine published a study about the impact of banning flavored tobacco products in Massachusetts. The study found, not surprisingly, that the sale of flavored tobacco decreased following the ban. By comparing sales in Massachusetts with sales across 27 other states, the authors observed that sales had decreased more in Massachusetts
            
          In this article ABNB (Left to right) Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia, co-founders of Airbnb Source: Airbnb In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. It’s hard to think of a more quintessential story in disruption than Airbnb — the company
            
          Rattler Midstream: “That group is red hot. The mastere limited partners. This thing yields 8%. I think it’s money good. I think it’s great. … Buy.” Nextdoor: “It’s a great advertising vehicle, but it was a SPAC. It was a SPAC and therefore, it’s no good. I mean, honest to God. If it’s a SPAC,
            
          In this article AMZN Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon will report its fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings per share: $3.57, according to
            
          Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Mike Blake | Reuters Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s hedge funds crushed the market in January as a spike in volatility and a steep sell-off in growth stocks created an ideal environment for fast-money traders. Citadel’s multistrategy flagship fund Wellington gained 4.71% last month, according to a person familiar with
            
          Getty Images The roughly 50 million American consumers who either don’t have credit history or have a limited record are in luck.   In recent years, many financial services companies have come out with programs to establish and build credit for those who have struggled to access the traditional banking system. There are even ways
            
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          Chile requires visitors furnish proof of insurance coverage for Covid-19 and related conditions. Pictured, capital city Santiago. Oleh_Slobodeniuk | E+ | Getty Images Are you planning a trip abroad? You may need to buy travel insurance to visit your destination country. Many countries had insurance requirements even before the pandemic. But about a dozen more
            
          Key Findings Forty-five states and the District of Columbia collect statewide sales taxes. Local sales taxes are collected in 38 states. In some cases, they can rival or even exceed state rates. The five states with the highest average combined state and local sales tax rates are Louisiana (9.55 percent), Tennessee (9.547 percent), Arkansas (9.48
            
          In this article BKI A house for sale in Scituate, Massachusetts. Matt Stone | MediaNews Group | Getty Images The stunning jump in home values over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic has given U.S. homeowners record amounts of housing wealth. What they choose to do with it could have impacts on the broader economy. 
            
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          In this article DGE-GB ABI-BE Anna Elias | Moment | Getty Images Premixed cocktails were the fastest-growing spirits category in 2021, stealing share from beer and hard seltzer. Sales of premixed cocktails surged 42.3% to $1.6 billion compared with a year earlier, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. Ready-to-drink cocktails were second