Month: May 2020

Lloyd Blankfein, the ex-Goldman Sachs CEO whose bank accepted bailout funds during the financial crisis, said that large companies should be “very reluctant” to take taxpayer money amid the coronavirus pandemic.  “Big companies should be very reluctant to take government money,” Blankfein said Thursday on CNBC’s Squawk Box in response to a question about how
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic shut down many parts of the U.S. and put millions out of work, Americans held an average of $26,621 in personal debt, excluding mortgages. That’s according to Northwestern Mutual’s 2020 Planning & Progress Study, which surveyed over 2,600 U.S. adults in mid-February. While that’s a staggering amount of debt, it’s
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A Boeing 747 cargo freighter belonging to the Atlas Air flies into the clouds after lifting off from Hong Kong International Airport, on 23 October 2017, in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. S3studio | Getty Images Not all airlines are reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. Cargo airlines are cashing in on rush for medical supplies and
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New Yorkers giving thanks to all the frontline workers on April 4th, 2020. Adam Jeffery | CNBC New York residents struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic can’t be evicted by their landlords until at least Aug. 20, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.  Cuomo’s announcement extends the state’s previous moratorium on evictions, which lasted only through June.   “I don’t
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General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on April 1, 2020 tours one of the company’s facilities in Warren, Michigan that will produce Level 1 face masks. GM General Motors is set to report its first-quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday as the company grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that’s shuttered
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boonchai wedmakawand Coronavirus scams are on the rise — and thieves are targeting your financial relief from the government.  Federal agencies like the IRS, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security Administration and FBI have warned consumers and business owners in recent weeks to be vigilant as fraudsters try to take advantage of them during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Flight attendants talk in a nearly empty cabin on a Delta Airlines flight operated by SkyWest Airlines as travel has cutback, amid concerns of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a flight departing from Salt Lake City, Utah, April 11, 2020. Jim Urquhart | Reuters A lobbying group representing U.S. airlines on Wednesday said federally mandated
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One of the world’s leading authorities on Asia is worried Wall Street is miscalculating China’s efforts to reopen its economy. While it’s going relatively smoothly on the supply side, Yale University senior fellow Stephen Roach warns the demand side is struggling, and that’s a bad sign for the U.S. economy as it begins reopening. “Chinese consumers
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Chicago-based millennial Alex Sanchez earned more than $230,000 last year. The bulk of his income came from his day job: He works about 60 hours a week as an overhead lineman for an electrical utilities company. Between his $120,000 base salary, $10,000 annual bonus and overtime pay, he makes more than $200,000. The 25-year-old also brings
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Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett made a lot of news at Berkshire Hathaway‘s first virtual annual meeting on Saturday, including revealing that he sold all his airline stocks and didn’t see any value in any major acquisitions amid the coronavirus pullback in stocks. The 89-year-old
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