Month: March 2020

A man runs past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Bloomberg Hundreds of Wall Street traders are about to change their commute starting Monday. Citigroup is traders and salespeople from its headquarters in downtown Manhattan to a backup facility in Rutherford, New Jersey next week in contingency plans tied to the coronavirus, according to a
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Robinhood co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt New York event on May 10, 2016. Noam Galai | Getty Images for TechCrunch Rivals to popular investing app Robinhood aren’t jumping at the opportunity to celebrate the company’s recent outage. The U.S. commission-free trading platform experienced a massive outage that began on
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My first experience with the small, but rapidly growing movement to eliminate handshaking was in a chiropractic office in Singapore two weeks ago.   “Are you shaking hands? Some people aren’t these days,” the chiro said, extending his hand before awkwardly retracting it. I did — to break the oddness of the moment — but
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Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport. Source: Orlando International Airport Hyatt Hotels said on Monday it was withdrawing its 2020 earnings outlook, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the globe hurting travel demand. The company had previously forecast adjusted profit for 2020 between $760 million and $780 million. Greater China revenue per available room (RevPAR) has been
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A visitor holding a revolver by US manufacturer Smith & Wesson (S&W) at the IWA OutdoorClassics trade show for hunting, shooting sports, equipment for outdoor activities and for civilian and official security applications. Daniel Karmann | picture alliance | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. American Outdoor Brands — The gun
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Greycroft chairman Alan Patricof said Thursday the recent market pullback was a “blip” and that investors should remain calm. “This is a blip, and we’ve seen a lot of blips in the last 20 years,” Patricof said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Stocks sold off dramatically again on Thursday, continuing a volatile period of trading that
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The “Fast Money” traders share their first moves for the market open. Tim Seymour was a buyer of Home Depot. Steve Grasso was a buyer of Snap. Dan Nathan was a buyer of JetBlue. Guy Adami was a buyer of Occidental Petroleum.  Disclaimer Trader disclosure: Tim Seymour is long AMZA, AMZN, AAPL, ACBFF, ACRGF, ALEF, ACB,
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Wall Street Democrat Roger Altman told CNBC on Thursday that the stock market’s reaction to Joe Biden‘s resurgence in the Democratic presidential primary is because his chief rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is viewed as unelectable.  “The greater the extent that Biden is seen as the Democratic nominee, I think investors will be comforted,” Altman said
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Sam Zell, who made his fortune scooping up distressed assets, told CNBC on Thursday that he’s been taking advantage of the stock market’s volatility. The billionaire founder of Equity Group Investments said in a “Squawk Box” interview, “We’ve been buying some stuff that we thought was ridiculously low” in the recent coronavirus-driven sell-offs on Wall
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