Jim Farley in 2017. Luke Macgregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ford Motor is “absolutely” interested in following Tesla and General Motors in producing its own batteries for electric vehicles, new CEO Jim Farley said Friday. The comments are a reversal from Farley’s predecessor, Jim Hackett, who told investors in July that the automaker saw
John Stumpf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., waits to begin a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ex-Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf and his former deputy Carrie Tolstedt were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday
“The Spirit of the Rose,” a rare purple-pink diamond mined in Russia, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for nearly $27 million. A picture taken at a press preview on November 6, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images The largest purple-pink diamond ever to be auctioned has been sold in Geneva, Switzerland for 24,393,000 Swiss
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 08: A supporter of President Donald Trump (L) and a supporter of former … [+] Vice President Joe Biden (R) dance together at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House as others celebrate on November 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Getty Images Joe Biden is
John Riccitiello Gus Ruelas | Reuters Video game software developer Unity Software‘s stock fell as much as 6% in after-hours trading on Thursday as the company posted widening net losses in its third-quarter earnings. Here’s what they reported: Loss per share: 97 cents Revenue: $200.8 million Net loss: $144.7 million CNBC does not compare reported earnings
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that investors should feel more confident that an orderly transition of power from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden should occur — suggesting a “Black Swan” event that Trump refuses to leave the White House, despite losing a democratic election, appears unlikely. Cramer pointed to a number of developments
Volunteers distribute food to the needy in Orlando, Fla. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Continuing claims Continuing claims for unemployment benefits are the best available proxy for the total number of people receiving jobless aid. Claims have fallen by more than 10 million since the early summer. There were around 21 million continuing claims through
Nearly three quarters of the homes that sold in New York City between March and October went for … [+] less than the seller’s original asking price. getty The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with already-cooling sales, led to the ultimate buyer’s market in New York City this year. A new report by StreetEasy found that nearly
The former U.K. chancellor Philip Hammond. Getty Images Corporations, foreigners, and rich people could be the answer to the £40 billion ($52.7 billion) hole in the U.K.’s public finances caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Philip Hammond, the former U.K. chancellor says that government borrowing will take the lion’s share of the debt burden until after
JetBlue planes at a gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Get ready to fight over the armrest again. JetBlue Airways on Thursday said it will sell all seats on its flights starting Jan. 8. It is the latest carrier to cite advanced filtration systems
Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco Systems, speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Check out the companies making headlines after hours on Thursday: Cisco Systems — Cisco shares rallied nearly 9% in after-hours trading on the back of better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter. The company reported earnings per share of
CEO of Cisco Chuck Robbins speaks during the VivaTech (Viva Technology) trade fair in Paris on May 24, 2018. Gerard Julien | AFP | Getty Images Cisco shares moved as much as 9% higher in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings and an upbeat forecast that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Here’s
In my 23 years as on-air stocks correspondent for CNBC, I’ve been asked many questions by strangers, but most of them boil down to some variant of “What do you think is going to happen to the markets?” Remarkably, almost no one (OK, maybe one in a hundred) ever ask what I would consider
Seniors MoMo Productions | DigitalVision | Getty Images It’s a common end-of-year refrain: Don’t forget to take your required minimum distribution. But, just as with everything else in 2020, rules for RMDs, as they are generally known, are different this year. Seniors don’t have to take them. The CARES Act passed by Congress in March
By Penny Pennington, Next Avenue getty Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth in a weekly joint series on COVID-19 and the Future of Aging from the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and Next Avenue. The articles are Q and As with thought leaders in fields ranging from health care to retirement
This full outdoor suite includes dry storage drawers, a built-in grill with access doors, built-in … [+] refrigerator drawers, a beer dispenser as well as a beverage chiller and preparation compartment. Photo courtesy of DCS by Fisher & Paykel With so many people quarantining at home, outdoor space has become increasingly important – not only
Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of … [+] the White House on September 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The recipe is simple. When the economy is struggling, you
Grocery shoppers are trading canned goods and bags of dried beans for specialty chocolate and gourmet pasta sauce as coronavirus cases rise across the country, new research shows. In the early months of the pandemic, in the spring, Americans filled up their grocery carts with bulk purchases of food and household staples, and grocers raced
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday night as Wall Street continues to grapple with the rising number of coronavirus cases and its potential economic impact. Earlier on Thursday, the Dow dropped more than 300 points during the regular session, notching its second straight daily
Tech billionaire Mark Cuban has been an outspoken voice throughout the 2020 election process, from endorsing President-elect Joe Biden while criticizing President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 response to saying that certain aspects of “both sides scare me.” Despite making clear his preference of Biden over Trump before this month’s presidential election, Cuban now also says he