(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Venture capital funding for clean energy technology companies has declined after years of lackluster performance drove investors to other sectors. But a new fund is making a …

CNBC’s Jim Cramer takes a look at the week ahead in stock market news as Wall Street prepares for a short week of trading with Thanksgiving on Thursday. The “Mad Money” host sits down for interviews with Clorox CEO Benno Dorer and SoFi CEO Anthony Noto. Noto says he expects …

Wall Street is counting on a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade negotiations, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer isn’t banking on it. President Donald Trump, again, on Friday teased that the U.S. was nearing a trade agreement with China, while Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that Beijing also wants to land a deal …

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who is facing a House ethics probe for engaging in a relationship with a subordinate staff member, has been paying his girlfriend the highest salary among his staffers for nearly a decade, according to House disbursement records. Patricia Williams, Hastings’ girlfriend of at least 25 years, …

President Donald Trump employs several of his family members to work within his White House administration and help him run his business. His daughter Ivanka Trump serves as an advisor, and her husband, Jared Kushner, serves as assistant to the president and senior advisor. Trump’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric …

Daniel Leal-Olivas | AFP | Getty Images Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has launched a $5 million TV ad campaign as he prepares to enter the Democratic primary for president, an advertising monitoring group said Friday. Data compiled by Advertising Analytics, which tracks ad buys throughout the 2020 election, shows that the …

If someone asked you when the holiday shopping season starts, you’d likely point to Black Friday, when flocks of people will rush to stores after a hearty turkey dinner to pick through the hottest deals. But for more people in 2019, holiday shopping started in July. Why? Amazon. Amazon’s annual …

People shop during a Black Friday sales event at Macy’s flagship store on 34th St. in New York City,  November 22, 2018. Stephanie Keith | Reuters Although some retailers have already started marking down items and cueing the holiday music, the season will kick off in earnest next week.  Retailers …

Tom Werner | DigitalVision | Getty Images If you were diligently saving money for medical expenses all year, you may be about to lose it. A health-care flexible spending account, which you may have access to at work, allows you to save pretax dollars in a savings account. You can …

Starbucks’ burning-hot rally turned ice-cold over the past three months. The coffee chain has tumbled 14% since the end of August, missing out on the broader markets’ 7% surge. The stock’s rally cooled off after peaking in July. Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com, has tried to time the bottom twice, …