Month: May 2020

Niraj Shah, CEO, Wayfair Ashlee Espinal | CNBC Online furniture retailer Wayfair‘s net loss widened in the first quarter as its sales surged nearly 20%, with more people flocking to its website to furnish their home offices and bedrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.  Its shares were down more than 3% in premarket trading following the announcement.  Here’s
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Over the course of my eight-year teaching career, I’ve taught students of all grades, from elementary school to college — in classrooms, online and through private in-person tutoring sessions.  Teaching isn’t easy, and different kids learn best in different ways. Some perform better with a more hands-on approach, while others do well with minimal supervision and
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Many companies are being hurt by social distancing safety rules due to the coronavirus and investors may want to reevaluate whether to own their stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “Social distancing is going to be the answer why you have to sell certain stocks,” Cramer said. For companies that need to invest heavily to help
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has sold all its airline stocks, but retail investors at TD Ameritrade were buying them in April, according to JJ Kinahan, the firm’s chief market strategist.  “Nobody in their right mind normally fades Mr. Buffett, but with that being said, I think people are buying these and saying, ‘OK, this has to be a longer-time-frame
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Pharmaceutical companies continue to make headlines as governments and investors hang their hopes on a steady recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel O’Day said Sunday the company would be donating its entire supply of remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients. Roche Chairman Christoph Franz said the drugmaker will invest more than $437 million in a
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Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday posted a record net loss of nearly $50 billion as the coronavirus pandemic pummeled its common stock investments, but operating profit rose even as COVID-19 hurt its businesses. Berkshire’s first-quarter net loss totaled $49.75 billion, or $30,653 per Class A share, reflecting $54.52
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that legendary investor Warren Buffett gave “no hope near term” in his annual shareholders meeting on Saturday with his sale of airline stocks. “Buffett’s overview on airlines really does make me very concerned about the near term,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”  The billionaire investor said Saturday that
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Fertnig | E+ | Getty Images People who receive Supplemental Security Income or Department of Veterans Affairs benefits have just one more day to supply the federal government with information on any qualifying dependents who should be included in their stimulus payments. Millions of stimulus payments are in the process of being deployed to Americans.
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