Month: March 2020

Investors should be willing to put cash to work after the market’s worst day since “Black Monday” in 1987, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday.  “There’s trillions of dollars on the sideline, waiting and waiting and waiting,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “They’ve got what they’ve been waiting for.” He asked, “How can you not start buying
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 12, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that the Trump administration would consider suspending people’s student loan payments
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Market researcher James Bianco calls the Federal Reserve’s move to pump $1.5 trillion into the market the “nuclear option” to calm investors gripped by coronavirus fears. Only, it didn’t work Thursday. Instead, stocks saw their worst day since the 1987 Black Monday market crash. “Financial markets are not recovering. It’s incredible to think that a
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The U.S. stock market will drop as much as 30% from last month’s highs as global economies go into coronavirus-driven recessions, said economist Mohamed El-Erian, who correctly predicted earlier in the week the selling would continue until a bear market was reached. The former CEO of investment powerhouse Pimco said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday that investors should not expect a quick
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Countries around the world are scrambling to rein in the coronavirus and understand its ultimate medical and economic impacts. One prominent business school is using the turmoil as a learning opportunity. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will soon begin offering a new course about the coronavirus — the disease that’s infected nearly 128,000
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Toshi Sasaki | Getty Images As the coronavirus pandemic paralyzes the country, some companies need billions of dollars to pay the bills. The country’s largest investment banks say they’re ready and willing to give it to them. That means the biggest corporate pain won’t be felt from a short-term squeeze. It will likely come later. 
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Stock futures pointed to more pain ahead on Friday as they fell in overnight trading following major averages losing the most since the “Black Monday” market crash in 1987. As of 6:30 p.m. ET, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 200 points in overnight trading Thursday. The overnight action followed the official end
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