PNC Financial’s Amanda Agati is positioning for a challenging fall. Agati, the firm’s chief investment strategist, questions whether the market can move meaningfully higher with uncertainty relating to the presidential election, the coronavirus’ path and effectiveness of vaccine trials churning in the background. “I don’t know if I want to say — or go as far
Month: September 2020
Macy’s appears to be excelling in luxury retail as its high-end department store peers go under. “Look at luxury right now, look at Neiman’s, look at parts of Lord & Taylor,” Macy’s Chief Executive Jeff Gennette told CNBC in a phone interview Wednesday, on the heels of the company’s second-quarter earnings report. “There is opportunity for
Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors. Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Baillie Gifford, Tesla’s largest outside shareholder, has reduced its position in the electric auto maker after the company’s rapid share appreciation made it an outsized influence on the firm’s holdings. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Most renters in the U.S. are now protected from eviction until the end of the year, according to an order announced on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ban is unprecedented and could prevent millions of Americans from being forced out of their homes during one of the worst public health crises in
Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau once wrote in his classic book Walden, “We need the tonic of wildness.” In this book from 1854, Thoreau wrote about his life in the woods in Massachusetts, which focused on simple living in nature and privacy. His serene way of life surrounded by nature served as inspiration for Walden
By Stephenie Overman, Next Avenue Contributor getty An 18-year-old American soldier who went to fight in Vietnam in 1968 — the year of peak deployment —is now 70 years old. In addition to the usual health problems affecting that age group, many Vietnam veterans struggle with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the effects of Agent
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – AUGUST 31: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a … [+] campaign event at Mill 19. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Is Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposing to raise taxes on low- and middle-income households? He emphatically says no. President Trump and his allies say yes, just as
The U.S. reported 43,253 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, pushing the seven-day average of new cases passed 42,300, up 0.6% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. While the data is based on just over a week of data, epidemiologists warn it’s a
An indoor shopping mall is seen before having to close due to new restrictions by the State of California during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Carlsbad, California, U.S., July 14, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters Macy’s said Wednesday its same-store sales tumbled 35.1% during the second quarter, despite a strong showing online.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Kim Shiflett The massive boost from Apple and Tesla’s stock splits is showing signs of
Luxury apartments are advertised in a realtors window on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Manhattan sales contracts fell 31% in August while deals in the suburbs and Florida surged, suggesting that the flight from New York City continued through the summer. There were 585 sales contracts
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan responds to a question during a 2014 news conference at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. Jeff Siner | Charlotte Observer | Tribune News Service via Getty Images This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Shares of DraftKings jumped 13% in premarket trading after the company said
As many parents experienced in the spring, remote learning asks a lot from them, too. Not only do many children need assistance with school work and scheduling but, at the very least, they require basic supervision, which means an adult must be at home to help. To that point, 21% of parents said that they
Over the summer, I wrote a book called The Race Awakening of 2020: A 6 Step Guide For Moving Forward. The book was written over a weekend of despair as I tried to cope with what is going on this country related to racial injustice. My wife and I were having very difficult conversations with
Social Security requires more than a power of attorney getty Hopefully, Baby Boomers are paying more attention to their power of attorney (POA) documents. A previous post pointed out that, as valuable as these POA documents are, they will not stand alone for Medicare. The same holds true for Social Security. POAs do not give the
Close-Up Of Small Shopping Boxes With Credit Card On Laptop getty In the years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the physical presence nexus standard for state authority to impose a sales and use tax collection duty on remote sellers in Quill v. North Dakota, sales by remote sellers exploded, due almost entirely to the deployment of the world
Hundreds of people queue outside an Australian government welfare centre, Centrelink, in Melbourne on March 23, 2020. William West | AFP via Getty Images Australia on Wednesday became the latest country to officially enter a recession as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate economies worldwide. Data released Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed
The logo of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse is seen on October 17, 2017 in Zurich. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Swiss watchdog FINMA (the Financial Market Supervisory Authority) said Wednesday it had initiated enforcement proceedings against Credit Suisse over the spying affair that came to light last year. “FINMA has opened enforcement
Hotels are rolling out the red carpet for a new breed of traveler: your new puppy. Lockdowns, social distancing and new work-from-home arrangements have caused animal adoptions to soar across the United States. A new TD Ameritrade survey found that 33% of Americans — and half of millennials — have considered fostering or adopting a
Win McNamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images August was a hard month for Donna Crenshaw. First, she stopped getting an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits, which had been helping pay the bills. Absent that subsidy, Crenshaw gets just $33 a week before tax from North Carolina, where she lives just