Month: April 2020

Fed Ex change of hours and Social Distancing signage due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on March 22, 2020 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Getty Images FedEx, citing the devastating impact of Covid-19, requested that its rent be cut in half at some FedEx Office locations for three months, a move sharply criticized
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In this photo illustration the American biotechnology company Gilead Sciences logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a computer model of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the background. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has been in “sustained and ongoing” discussions with Gilead Sciences to make antiviral drug remdesivir
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Facebook shares rose as much as 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company announced its first-quarter results. Earnings (EPS): $1.71 Revenue: $17.74 billion Daily active users (DAUs): 1.73 billion Monthly active users (MAUs): 2.6 billion Average revenue per user (ARPU): $6.95 Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv expect $1.75 in earnings per share and $17.41
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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during a ceremony at the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla shares rose more than 7% after hours as the company showed its third consecutive quarter with a profit. Here’s how the company did: 
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Tobias Schwarz | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft shares rose 2% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported fiscal third-quarter sales growth of 15%, fueled by its cloud business. The company said in a statement that the coronavirus “had minimal net impact on the total company revenue” in the
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This is Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement after the latest Fed meeting. Given the unprecedented circumstances brought on by the coronavirus crisis, as well as the Fed’s extensive actions to mitigate the pandemic, the central bank has issued statements with more frequency and variance than typical. The Fed issued three statements in March alone.
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Investors should look to sectors that lately have been “completely eviscerated” as the U.S. economy seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson told CNBC on Tuesday.  “We’re bullish overall, and we just think there’s more upside in potentially some of the laggard areas,” Wilson said on “Fast Money.” “That’s not saying anything bad
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General Electric reported Wednesday a steep declines in first-quarter revenue and earnings as the industrial giant took a hit amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The company posted a total revenue of $20.524 billion, which represents a year-over-year decline of 8%. GE Industrial profits fell 46% year over year to $1.096 billion from $2.017 billion. On an
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Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that positive news from Gilead Sciences about a potential treatment for the coronavirus marked a turning point in the fight against Covid-19. “What I regard this as is the beginning of the end of the true nightmare, which is that it’s a death sentence,” Cramer said on
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Getty Images If you received a stimulus check for a deceased relative, you should think twice before spending that money. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told The Wall Street Journal that he expects families who receive those checks to return the money. “You’re not supposed to keep that payment,” Mnuchin told the paper. “We’re checking the
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