Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Professional investors are heading for the sidelines while demanding that companies stop using their cash to buy back stocks and instead improve their balance sheets. The Bank of America Global Fund Manager survey for April reflects the large level of caution seen in the markets since efforts to stop the coronavirus
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Andrew Karas founded and co-owns Asbury Park Distilling Co. in New Jersey Andrew Karas When the coronavirus outbreak began shutting down businesses, Andrew Karas had to think fast about how to survive. His business, New Jersey-based Asbury Park Distilling Co., produces spirits and distributes them to restaurants, bars and liquor stores. “It’s tough. The industry
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Christine McCarthy, a nurse for over 20 years and a palliative nurse for the past year, sits for a portrait on an empty hospital bed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Apr. 2, 2020. Here at the states largest hospital, staff are coping with unprecedented realities in this coronavirus pandemic and deeply worried about what
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that dominant U.S. companies are further solidifying their positions during the coronavirus pandemic, evidenced by the Nasdaq 100 being almost even for the year.  “This is the big triumphing over the little guy and if you don’t mind making money in the market off that, that’s what’s going on,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the
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Yuka Ioroi, co-owner of Cassava restaurant on Balboa Street in San Francisco manages take-out orders on April 8, 2020. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Nearly 7.5 million small businesses are at risk of closing their doors permanently over the next several months if the coronavirus pandemic persists, according to a survey. Around two-thirds
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Junior’s Cheesecake owner Alan Rosen said Tuesday that the money the restaurant company has received through the Treasury Department’s small business loan program is not enough to immediately bring workers off furlough.  There is too much uncertainty about when the coronavirus pandemic will subside and when people will be comfortable to “sit shoulder to shoulder in our
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An unpainted Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is seen parked in an aerial photo at Renton Municipal Airport near the Boeing Renton facility in Renton, Washington, U.S. July 1, 2019. Picture taken July 1, 2019. Lindsey Wassen | Reuters Boeing customers canceled a staggering number of 737 Max orders last month, deepening the crisis the company faces
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