Month: June 2020

LeoPatrizi The Paycheck Protection Program may have been an exercise in frustration for small-business owners, but here’s the silver lining: They might be better equipped to weather the next crisis. The federal government rolled out the so-called PPP in April as coronavirus and the ensuing stay-at-home orders took their toll on small businesses. The forgivable
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, smiles as he speaks during the Economic Club of Washington’s Milestone Celebration event in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2018. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is introducing a new digital credit line for U.S.-based merchants with partner bank Goldman Sachs, CNBC has learned exclusively. Small
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Slowly but surely, small businesses are rehiring workers as plans to reopen from the coronavirus lockdown progress across the country. Employee headcount increased by 3.2% in May, although it remains below pre-pandemic levels overall, according to exclusive data compiled by human resource provider Gusto and based on more than 100,000 small businesses nationwide. In addition,
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Photo: Getty Ten years into the longest economic expansion in modern U.S. history, concerns over an imminent recession are mounting. Corporate leaders surveyed around the world agree that a recession is the biggest business risk in 2020. Recessions are identified by two consecutive quarters of decreasing gross domestic product and tend to lead to increased
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New federal aid is targeted toward communities with high homeless populations or individuals at risk … [+] of becoming homeless. Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it will provide $2.96 billion in the remaining Emergency Solutions Grants funding to aid homeless Americans and people at risk
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Huntington Beach, CA Getty Here are the top 25 cities with the highest rent decreases. Though rents increased an average of 3 percent nationally last year, Apartmentguide.com found the top 25 cities where annual rents have declined. What surprised Brian Carberry, Apartmentguide’s managing editor who crunched the numbers was, “some of the areas with significant
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Nikola Motor’s Tre semi-truck. Nikola Motor Company Speculative traders are betting big that Tesla won’t be the only successful company of the future named for inventor Nikola Tesla. Shares of Nikola Corporation, which makes battery-electric and hydrogen-electric trucks, advanced more than 20% on Tuesday, after more than doubling on Monday. The company began trading on June 4
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General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra addresses the gathering Wednesday, June 3, 2020 during a press conference of corporate leaders speaking out against racism and injustice at City Hall in Detroit, Michigan. GM General Motors CEO and Chairman Mary Barra put the responsibility on herself to ensure the company continues to focus on diversity
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With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5 trillion, the student debt crisis in the United States has exploded in recent years. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) ROBYN BECK Unless Congress passes more relief measures for student loan borrowers, they will be required to resume their monthly payments on Oct. 1. And new graduates, entering one of
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