Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, at the discussion “Innovation potential in Africa, in Berlin, Germany. picture alliance | Getty Images Women are vital to ensuring finances — and financial education — trickle down to other parts of society, said billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. Governments and businesses serious about giving all members of society access to financial services
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People wearing face masks move packs of vegetables at a wholesale market for agricultural products, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China February 19, 2020. Tingshu Wang | Reuters BEIJING — China’s consumer price index fell in November for the first time in about a decade as
Katrina Lake, co-founder and chief executive officer of Stitch Fix Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Tuesday: Stitch Fix — Shares of the clothing subscription service soared 45% after the company beat top and bottom-line estimates during its fiscal first-quarter results . Stitch Fix earned
Nick Molnar is something of an Australian icon. The 30-year-old is credited with reinventing the spending habits of millions of millennials, earning him a spot on his country’s young rich list. And now, as the pandemic supercharges his payments business, its soaring share price has shot him to billionaire status. “You can’t really digest what’s happening because a
Investor Peter Boockvar warns bullishness is at dangerous levels. He’s worried about investor optimism touching dot-com-bubble euphoria levels. “Sentiment has gotten as ebullient as we’ve seen in early 2000,” the Bleakley Advisory Group chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday. “It’s all about that enthusiasm for stocks that should make somebody that is bullish
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, on September 03, 2020 in Gruenheide near Berlin. Odd Andersen | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday on Monday: Tesla — Tesla jumped more than 4% to hit a
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at a news conference after restoring diplomatic ties with Kiribati on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. September 27, 2019. Mark Kauzlarich | Reuters BEIJING — The U.S. should reduce its “interference” in China’s domestic affairs and development in order to improve relations
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. stock futures rose slightly on Sunday night following a record-setting session as Wall Street searched for clues on additional fiscal aid. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded higher by 50 points, or 0.2%. S&P 500 climbed 0.2%, and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.3%.
Fans gather at local Ulta Beauty in Houston to greet Kylie Jenner at the launch of her cosmetics line on November 18, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Rick Kern | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: DocuSign — Shares of DocuSign popped more than 6% after the electronic-documents company posted better-than-expected
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Ollie’s Bargain Outlet (OLLI) — Shares of the retailer slid more than 11% following commentary around a slowdown in the company’s fourth-quarter trends. “Quarter-to-date, our comparable-store sales increases are tracking in the low single-digits,” CEO John Swygert said in a statement. Goldman Sachs downgraded the
A customer exits a Big Lots store in Clifton, New Jersey. Emile Wamsteker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Big Lots — The retail stock sank 9% after the company declined to give guidance as part of its third-quarter earnings report. Big Lots beat analyst expectations on
People receive food at a distribution site during the coronavirus pandemic. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 6.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. It’s the seventh consecutive month of improvement from the depths of the Covid
President Donald Trump has a bill on his desk that could kick several Chinese companies off of U.S. stock exchanges and inflame an already strained relationship between Washington and Beijing. The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act would force companies to give up their listings on Wall Street if they refuse to open their books to
Nikolay Storonsky, chief executive of Revolut, on stage at the MoneyConf fintech event in Lisbon, Portugal. Seb Daly | Web Summit | Getty Images LONDON — Digital banking start-up Revolut on Friday launched tools for its business clients to accept payments online, looking to compete with payment giants such as Stripe and Adyen. Revolut said
Wall Street may be underpricing a risk associated with the next Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates. According to Richard Bernstein Advisors’ Michael Contopoulos, it may come down to President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary: former Fed Chair Janet Yellen. Contopoulos speculates the Fed could see her appointment as a dovish influence and it
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures were little changed in overnight trading on Thursday as investors awaited a key November jobs report to gauge the pace of labor market recovery in the face of a worsening pandemic. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20 points.
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Express (EXPR) — Shares of Express tanked 25% after the retailer reported a wider-than-expected earnings loss. Express said it lost $1.39 per share in the third quarter, versus an estimated loss of 51 cents per Refinitiv. Its revenue also missed expectations. Tesla (TSLA) — Shares
There may be more juice left in the fourth quarter. Ally Invest’s Lindsey Bell said she believes the backdrop supports December gains. “We’re positive that it will be a good end to 2020,” the firm’s chief investment strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. Bell sees optimism surrounding another coronavirus aid package providing a near-term
Ariel Investments co-CEO and president Mellody Hobson speaks at the 2017 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. Paul Morigi | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The lack of diversity across the highest ranks of corporate America is certainly not new, but in recent months social unrest has brought the issue into the
Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann Source: European fintech giant Revolut has hired former Citigroup executive Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann to its U.S. board as it seeks to expand in the world’s biggest economy. Macieira-Kaufmann spent 12 years at Citigroup, most recently as head of Citigroup’s International Personal Bank in the U.S., which is the firm’s offshore wealth management arm. Revolut,