Month: August 2019

President Donald Trump, center, speaks while Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), from right, Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP, Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc., and Ginni Rometty, president and chief executive officer of International Business Machine Corp. (IBM), listen during
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Elsa Hosk, Adriana Lima, Behati Prinsloo, and Candice Swanepoel pose during the finale of the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at Pier 94 on November 8, 2018 in New York City. Taylor Hill | FilmMagic | Getty Images Lingerie maker Victoria’s Secret dragged on parent company L Brands‘s second-quarter earnings, which topped analysts’ expectations on profit while
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Michael Burry attends the “The Big Short” New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images GameStop shares jumped after Barron’s reported that investor Michael Burry, one of the main money managers depicted in Michael Lewis’ book “The Big Short,” is long the
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Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said Thursday that while he reluctantly supported the central bank’s rate cut in July, he doesn’t see the case for additional stimulus. “We’re roughly where neutral is. It’s hard to know exactly where neutral is, but I think we’re roughly where neutral is right now. And I think we should
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Serving on the board of directors of a nonprofit can be rewarding, but not if you end up paying for the organization’s tax problems. Your first reaction might be to say what tax problems, for aren’t nonprofits, especially public charities, tax exempt? Not entirely. For example, nonprofits
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Signage is displayed outside of the Cardinal Health Inc. headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drug distributor Cardinal Health warned on Tuesday that its business could be hurt as it defends itself against several opioid-related lawsuits. Several pharmaceutical wholesale distributors, including Cardinal, have been named as defendants in about 2,500
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Federal Reserve officials who voted to lower interest rates three weeks ago agreed that the move shouldn’t be viewed as an indication that there is a “pre-set course” for future cuts, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. The summary indicated that policymakers viewed the move as a “mid-cycle adjustment,” an expression Chairman Jerome Powell used
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Toll Brothers reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on higher home prices, but its shares fell as orders declined, hinting at weaker demand for new homes. Slowing economic growth and recent stock market volatility, triggered by an escalating U.S.-China trade war, have made some Chinese buyers more cautious about investing in the U.S. property market, potentially
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference following the Federal Reserve’s two-day Federal Open Market Committee Meeting in Washington, July 31, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters Federal Reserve members worried over future growth are highly concerned about the U.S.-China tariff battle, citing the issue multiple times during discussions at the central bank’s July
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