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President Joe Biden speaks delivers a foreign policy address during a visit to the State Department in Washington, February 4, 2021. Tom Brenner | Reuters President Joe Biden said this weekend that it is unlikely a $15 federal minimum wage provision makes it into the next Covid-19 relief package, hitting pause on a key campaign

Dan and Grace Porte lost their jobs at Target when the Covid pandemic began. The couple, in their mid-80s, had used the income to supplement Social Security. Dan and Grace Porte Dan and Grace Porte worked together for decades. In the 1970s, they started a paint and wallpaper business. Then, after the housing bubble burst

Attendees play the Activision Blizzard Inc. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 video game at the company’s booth during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Troy Harvey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ford — The legacy automaker’s

Cars line up to pick up food boxes at the Athens County Fairgrounds in Athens, Ohio on Dec. 19, 2020. BRAD LEE | AFP | Getty Images Long-term unemployment is edging toward a historical peak, almost a year into the pandemic-fueled downturn. Workers are deemed to be “long-term unemployed” when their jobless spell is longer

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Peloton (PTON) – Peloton doubled consensus estimates in reporting quarterly profit of 18 cents per share, and the fitness equipment maker’s revenue came in above estimates as well. Peloton will be incurring extra costs in the near term, however, to reduce shipping delays

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures were flat in overnight trading on Thursday, following a four-day winning streak on Wall Street as investors awaited a closely-watched January jobs report. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just 20 points. S&P 500 futures were flat and Nasdaq

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images GameStop’s stock is tanking again on Thursday, as the Reddit-fueled trade continues to unravel. Shares of GameStop are down more than 25% on Thursday, brining the brick-and-mortar video game retailer’s weekly losses to nearly 80%. The drop in price comes despite the rollback of trading limits from stock trading app

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Canada Goose (GOOS) – Canada Goose shares surged more than 15% in the premarket after the outerwear maker beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines. Results were helped by strong growth in China sales as well as a surge in online

The economic report to watch this week may disappoint Wall Street. According to MKM Partners’ Michael Darda, the January jobs report out Friday will likely show the labor market needs more time to recover from coronavirus case spikes and closures. “We have a slight chance of a beat, but it’s uncertain,” the firm’s chief economist

Capitol dome Congress Mark Makela | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are hoping to pass $1.9 trillion of additional pandemic relief, including extra jobless benefits. Still, many unemployed workers haven’t yet gotten benefit payments from the last stimulus package, which former President Trump signed more than a month

Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer sees a market setback ahead. Even though stocks are kicking off February in rally mode as the Reddit frenzy collapses, he believes a 5% to 10% pullback is already underway. “We’ve been looking for a correction,” the firm’s chief market strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “We’re in a slow

Signage for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. covers the front facade of the New York Stock Exchange November 11, 2015. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Alibaba will be taking advantage of the low interest rate environment in the U.S. right now by issuing the bonds. The company said the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes,

Dominik Osswald/Bloomberg via Getty Images Is silver the new GameStop? The question lingered Monday as the metal rallied, suggesting it was the market’s next hot-ticket item. The answer is both yes and no — and they both signal investors should tread cautiously.   Silver prices hit an 8-year high on Monday, jumping to $29 an

Cameron (L) and Tyler (R) Winklevoss. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is launching a savings scheme for its U.S. users. From Tuesday, the Gemini app will add a new service called “Earn” that lets clients move their holdings in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether and litecoin into

Bin Li, CEO of Chinese electric vehicle start-up NIO Inc., celebrates after ringing a bell as NIO stock begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the NYSE in New York, September 12, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up

In this photo illustration, the Robinhood application is displayed on an iPhone on December 17, 2020 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Small investors don’t appear to be punishing Robinhood too badly for the controversy surrounding GameStop last week, as the app remains the go-to place for retail clients to trade stocks.

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk came out as a believer in bitcoin on Friday — and now he’s doubling down. The billionaire Tesla boss

Workers stand at the port of Qingdao, Shandong province, China June 10, 2019. Reuters BEIJING — China is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy a few years earlier than anticipated due to the coronavirus pandemic, analysts said. The U.S. reported last week that gross domestic product in 2020 contracted by

A GameStop Corp. store in Rome, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Alesia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The

Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC Citron Research, which was forced to close out its short position in GameStop amid a frenzy in retail buying, said Friday it will no longer publish short reports and instead will focus on long positions. “After 20 years of publishing Citron will no