Doctors in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — The number of reported coronavirus cases around the world has hit 40 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone of 40,050,902 confirmed cases on Monday comes as various parts of Europe and the U.S.
Month: October 2020
ETFs are traded on exchanges, so they can be bought and sold like stocks through a brokerage. Tetra Images | Getty Images Although exchange-traded funds are growing in popularity, they are not yet making meaningful incursions into the territory of actively-managed funds, according to Refinitive’s Head of Lipper EMEA Research, Detlef Glow. Money market funds
Before building Salesforce into the multibillion-dollar cloud computing behemoth it is today, founder and CEO Marc Benioff experienced his share of ups and downs. One of the most challenging among them came early on, when the company was just a couple of years old, he said during a recent interview for LinkedIn’s “Hello Monday” podcast.
Acorns mobile application Acorns Acorns is expanding into the hiring market. The eight-year-old fintech company announced a partnership with online job market ZipRecruiter on Monday, which allows Acorns clients to browse and apply for jobs within the app. Acorns’ hiring portal is the first of its kind for a financial services company. The launch had
By Erin Flynn Jay, Next Avenue Contributor getty Millions of Americans are struggling to afford their medications during Covid-19, including some with health insurance, the nearly 27 million who lost coverage due to a job loss and those who never had it. But there are quite a few ways to lower your prescription drug costs
Owner and Qualifying Broker at Rhino Realty Property Management and Rhino Realty B&B, entrepreneur, investor, advisor, author and speaker. getty Like it or not, the world revolves around reviews and social media. So much so that many of today’s potential clients or consumers will weigh your review score as much as or more than a direct referral.
Bangladeshi worker works at a garment factory in Gazipur outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 6, 2020. Mehedi Hasan| NurPhoto | Getty Images SINGAPORE — The coronavirus outbreak has left the garment sector in Bangladesh reeling — and thousands of factory workers bore the brunt of it as their livelihoods were abruptly taken from them.
The Ant Group Co. logo and the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logo are displayed behind a reception desk at the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Ant Group has won approval from the Chinese securities regulator for the Hong Kong leg
If you’re on Medicare, it’s time to give your coverage a close look whether you feel like it or not. From now through Dec. 7, you can make changes that take effect Jan. 1. While you are not required to do anything — your 2020 coverage would continue next year, generally speaking, if you take
Zero percent concept icon – 3D Rendered Image getty How does 3 years of 0% returns sound? I saw a popup ad this week, and it said something like “guess which stock is up 350% this year?!” I chuckled to myself and thought, in the perception of some investors, maybe all of them. My point:
Stimulus spending sent both the FY 2020 deficit and the national debt to all time highs. Here are the numbers that show the breathtaking scope of the cost of the stimulus packages to date and the likely cost of the next round of stimulus. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES – 2018/03/23: The National Debt Clock
Corbis via Getty Images In anticipation of Brexit in January, upmarket London homes have been selling in record numbers. Buying more than any other foreign nationality are the French. During the first nine months of this year, the French were the largest foreign buyers of prime central London real estate. Their share of transactions has
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Oct. 9, 2020. Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called on the Trump administration to reconcile remaining disputes on coronavirus stimulus legislation within 48 hours as lawmakers attempt
As if getting in to a top college wasn’t hard enough, Covid-19 adds a new challenge. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many would-be freshmen have decided to postpone college rather than start their education online. As a result, colleges and universities are well below their enrollment numbers for the 2020-2021 academic year, a report shows. Overall,
Four steps to stay on track for s secure retirement. Keep on running so you don’t run out of money … [+] in retirement. AFP via Getty Images Being stuck at home for months and months, thanks to COVID-19, has many people rethinking what their dream retirement looks like. Others, who are out of work
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about what’s possible after suspending a retirement benefit, survivor pensions based on a spouse’s non-covered pension, responding to a notice of overpayment from Social Security and why spousal benefits may not have been available. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder
Robert Clark is Founder and Executive Chairman at Clayco, a design-build company with more than 30 years of experience in the industry. getty A number of large businesses have been helping small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses since the beginning of the pandemic. JP Morgan Chase donated $8 million to small businesses to help them avoid economic
Cans of diet cola Tab brand soft drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company are displayed at a supermarket in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 26, 2011. Ramin Talaie | Corbis Historical | Getty Images Coca-Cola said Friday that Tab, its first diet soda, is among the drinks headed for retirement as it trims
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Samuel Corum | Getty Images Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told CNBC Thursday that she has “no doubt” the U.S. will implement a new economic stimulus package that will help reduce the current uncertainties for the global economy. The IMF boss said that the
Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snap Inc. Adam Galica | CNBC With earnings season gathering pace, now is the time to re-evaluate your portfolio. However, in such an unpredictable environment, investors need to be particularly savvy when making critical investing decisions. “Markets are now hoping for (and trading on) a smooth election, a big
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