Niraj Shah, Wayfair CEO Ashlee Espinal | CNBC Citigroup won the rights to offer a pair of new credit cards with online furniture seller Wayfair, edging out Alliance Data Systems, CNBC has learned. The deal happened amid surging demand for home goods as millions of Americans were forced to work remotely from their residences during
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Desiree Pierce cries as she visits her home destroyed by the Almeda Fire, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Talent, Ore. “I just needed to see it, to get some closure,” said Pierce. John Locher | AP Historic wildfires are burning millions of acres and destroying homes in California, Oregon and Washington state, as officials brace for
A photographer takes a picture of the thermometer reading 132 degrees Fahrenheit (55.5 Celsius) at the Furance Creek Visitors Station in Death Valley National Park, California, August 17, 2020. David Becker | Reuters The U.S. this summer has experienced stifling hot temperatures that have set all-time records and put millions of people under excessive heat
Ashley, 3, and Ethan, 2, look at a burned bicycle after wildfires destroyed a neighbourhood in Bear Creek, Phoenix, Oregon, U.S., September 10, 2020. Carlos Barria | Reuters Dozens of major wildfires are burning through the U.S. West Coast, destroying hundreds of homes and wiping out entire neighborhoods in two towns in Oregon. More than 3
Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Most unemployed workers will get up to $1,800 in extra jobless benefits through the Lost Wages Assistance program created last month by the Trump administration. The program pays a $300-a-week federal subsidy on top of the unemployment benefits workers currently receive. It follows the lapse of
Roberto Machado Noa Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday: Peloton — The exercise equipment maker’s stock jumped 2.5% after the company handily beat earnings expectations for the fourth quarter. The company earned 27 cents per share, compared with the 10 cents expected by analysts polled by Refinitiv. Sales surged 172% during the quarter
Tan Min Liang, the co-founder, CEO and executive director of Razer, at a press conference on the proposed listing of Razer at JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong in Admiralty. Dickson Lee | South China Morning Post | Getty Images After applying to become a regulated bank in Singapore, gaming hardware firm Razer is now considering
Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Michael Corbat speaks at a European Financial Forum event in Dublin, Ireland February 13, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters When Citigroup president Jamie Forese announced he was stepping down in April 2019, it set off a chain of events that culminated Thursday when the firm announced it will appoint Jane
Visitors play video games at the Xbox stand during 2020 China International Cartoon and Game Expo (CCG Expo) at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 16, 2020 in Shanghai, China. Zhou You | Visual China Group | Getty Images A wave of major companies are suddenly letting people finance everything from video
Passengers use smartphones inside a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, in 2015. Woohae Cho/Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — South Korea’s Kakao Games surged in their Thursday market debut on the Kosdaq, more than doubling from their listing price shortly after trading began. Kakao Games’ shares started trading at 48,000 Korean won
SINGAPORE — Retail investors have been fueling a frenzied buying boom in markets this year, sparking fears that they are driving too much speculation in the market. But Christopher Smart, chief global strategist at Barings Investment Institute, suggested that the risks could be overblown. “It’s something we’ve lived with — through the dotcom bubble and
PeopleImages | E+ | Getty Images It has been more than a month since millions of Americans learned they’d be receiving an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits, and more than a dozen states have begun issuing the payments. Yet a key question remains for workers: How long will the funding last? There’s not
Zhong Shanshan, the chairman of Nongfu Spring Company, attends the Nongfu Spring new product launch conference on February 1, 2015 in Baishan, Jilin Province of China. Jiang Xin | VCG | Getty Images BEIJING — The public offering of a bottled water giant has propelled its founder into the ranks of the three richest people in
An investor watches the electronic board at a stock exchange hall on November 26, 2018 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. VCG via Getty Images BEIJING — In a sign of how murky the Chinese stock markets can still be, some publicly listed companies have disclosed odd instances of “accidental” stock sales in the last
People wait in their cars as they line up to collect unemployment forms in Hialeah, Florida. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images The official unemployment rate fell to 8.4% in August as businesses continued emerging from broad shutdowns imposed early in the coronavirus pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That’s the lowest rate since
A Temasek Holdings signage at their office in Singapore. Munshi Ahmed | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s state investment company Temasek said Tuesday the net value of its portfolio fell for the first time since 2016 as the coronavirus pandemic hit global markets. The size of Temasek’s portfolio fell to 306 billion Singapore dollars
The “Fearless Girl” statue stands in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on June 29, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Stocks futures climbed in overnight trading on Monday after technology shares suffered their worst sell-off in more than five months. Futures on the
A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and U.S. dollar bills at a bank counter in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on August 6, 2019. STR | AFP | Getty Images Increased foreign investment into Chinese markets could boost the usage of the yuan, pushing it to become the third largest reserve currency in
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: DocuSign (DOCU) – The provider of electronic signature technology reported quarterly earnings of 17 cents per share, more than doubling the 8 cents a share consensus estimate. Revenue also beat forecasts and DocuSign issued upbeat full-year guidance. Broadcom (AVGO) – Broadcom came in
Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., speaks during an Empowering Entrepreneurs events at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Cole Burston | Bloomberg | Getty Images A remarkable changing of the guard is happening in finance. This week, the market capitalization of fintech payments firm Square exceeded