In this article MS APHA-CA TLRY WBA AMAT LRCX HOG CHWY CLF AAPL BB-CA A woman on an escalator in a Walgreens store in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Walgreens — The drugstore company’s shares rose 6.7% after beating analysts’ expectations for its quarterly earnings.
In this article HE AAL UAL UNH DAL United Airlines’ Mileage Plus program earned top scores from WalletHub in categories such as ease of advance booking of reward travel and fewer mandatory layovers. United Airlines Air travel is set to boom this year as Americans tired of being cooped up in Covid lockdown look to
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 16, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Wall Street investors largely view higher interest rates as the biggest threat to derail the rally in stocks, according to a new CNBC survey. As a part of CNBC’s Quarterly
In this article PFE Getting kids vaccinated could go a long way toward getting students back in the classroom this fall. Pfizer said Wednesday its Covid-19 vaccine was 100% effective in a study of adolescents ages 12 to 15, which could clear the shots for use in middle school students as soon as this summer. And
On Friday, we will get the unemployment reports for March, and forecasters are hoping for continued improvement from the deep Covid-19 recession. But we are still hurting from that dramatic decline and the economic recovery is at risk if we relax our public health measures too soon. We’re still feeling the economic effects of the Covid-19
We know some people are going to go back to some offices. We know those office spaces will be different than they used to be. And we know the commercial real estate industry is facing one of its most serious challenges in modern history. But there’s so much more we don’t know and that will
Today’s column addresses questions about the ability to take spousal benefits after first receiving retirement benefits, what benefits may be available after a divorce and whether Social Security requires beneficiaries to switch from survivor benefits to their own retirement benefit at 70. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder
In this article ZE594-CN Chinese battery and electric vehicle maker BYD shows off a model of its Han EV series at the 2020 Beijing auto show. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Chinese electric car company BYD is feeling the hit of rising battery material costs. Backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, the automaker announced
In this article ROO-GB AMZN A Deliveroo cyclist in London, U.K. Dinendra Haria | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images LONDON — Shares of British food delivery start-up Deliveroo sank in its stock market debut Wednesday, as the company faces pressure from top investors and trade unions over workers’ rights. Deliveroo, which is backed
In this article AMZN An AWS Ground Station satellite antenna at one of the company’s data center in Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new space startup assistance program on Tuesday, with the tech giant partnering with U.K.-based venture firm Seraphim Capital on the project. The AWS Space Accelerator is
In this article FB SFY Monitors display Bumble signage during the company’s initial public offering in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Feb. 11. Bloomberg | Getty Images It looks like Main Street is poised to get in on an investment that’s been largely off-limits: initial public offerings. At least two trading
Got a .edu email address? You might be the target of the latest Internal Revenue Service impersonation scam. The IRS issued a warning today that scammers using phishing emails are targeting university and college students and staff from both public and private, profit and non-profit institutions. The scammers appear to be targeted those who have
Here’s how top real estate brokers close deals in California’s hot markets. In these days of multiple offers and fierce bidding wars, the reality of getting a transaction across the finish line is beyond challenging. Here two top brokers from the very competitive San Francisco and Napa Valley markets share their insights. Nina Hatvany of Compass
Create a monthly payout without making middlemen rich. You can spend a lot of time struggling to turn a pile of capital into monthly income. Or you can spend a lot of money. What if you don’t want to spend either of those things? Then you may find this guide very helpful. The model income
In this article BTC.CB= Taylor Rapp #24 of the Los Angeles Rams warms up prior to a team scrimmage at SoFi Stadium on August 29, 2020 in Inglewood, California. Sean M. Haffey | Getty Images Los Angeles Rams safety Taylor Rapp is joining the non-fungible token boom and donating proceeds to help Asian communities struck
In this article LULU Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Lululemon store in San Francisco, California, on Monday, March 29, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lululemon on Tuesday reported revenue and profit for the holiday quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by the athletic apparel maker’s online business, and double-digit
In this article US10Y SMH MCHP NXPI TXN ADI .IXIC Paul Meeks is wary of the group that made him famous on Wall Street. The investor, known for running the world’s largest technology fund during the late 1990s, says it’s the wrong time to aggressively put money to work in tech. “You have to play
In this article ETH.CM= BTC.CM= The buyer of the $69 million NFT by the artist Beeple said he was prepared to bid even higher, since it will be seen by history as the starting point of a new age of digital art. In his first television interview, Vignesh Sundaresan, also known as MetaKovan, told CNBC’s
In this article BAC Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bank of America is expanding its racial justice initiative, devoting more funding toward advocacy and equality for communities of color. “The urgency we feel to address long-standing issues of inclusion and racial inequality has only increased following the attacks and hate speech directed
Robert Daly | Getty Images The Biden administration is expanding an existing pause on student loan interest and collections to include more than 1.1 million borrowers who are in default, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The borrowers, whose defaulted loans are part of the Federal Family Education Loan program, were ineligible for the