Month: April 2020

Framing designer Leticia Bartelle Lorenzoni searches Social Security services on the internet in her house after losing her job at a framing art gallery, during the coronavirus outbreak, in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2020. APU GOMES Many Americans, now more than ever, are learning how to stretch their dollars. Faced with layoffs, furloughs
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised the Federal Reserve‘s latest moves to help keep afloat a U.S. economy that’s been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Before the stock market opened, the Federal unveiled details of its much-anticipated Main Street lending program and other initiatives, a total of $2.3 trillion in loans to help businesses and municipalities.
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European markets opened higher Thursday as market participants start to hope that the coronavirus pandemic is reaching a peak, but the latest U.S. unemployment claims data could hit sentiment. The pan-European Stoxx 600 climbed 1.1% in early deals, with autos jumping 2.4% to lead gains as all sectors and major bourses entered positive territory. European
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Wells Fargo Securities’ Chris Harvey believes the worst is behind the market — even as Wall Street braces for a painful earnings season. According to the firm’s head of equity strategy, the steps taken by the Federal Reserve and Capitol Hill to stabilize the coronavirus-battered markets are creating a pivotal floor under stocks. “Although the
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Thomas Barwick This year, the coronavirus relief law is letting savers bypass mandatory withdrawals from their retirement accounts. While that’s good news, it’s still generating plenty of questions from account holders. Generally, savers who turn 70½ must begin annual required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from their retirement accounts and pay taxes on those withdrawals. However,
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There are now about 20,000 shops on Etsy selling face masks, CEO Josh Silverman told CNBC on Wednesday.  “Our sellers are able to produce hundreds of thousands of masks per day,” Silverman said on “Closing Bell.” Etsy began to see “overwhelming demand” for masks from shoppers last week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began
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U.S. President Donald Trump escalated tension with the World Health Organization on Wednesday, once again criticizing the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and threatening to withhold funding. “So we’re going to do a study, an investigation, and we’re going to make a determination as to what we’re doing. In the meantime, we’re holding back,”
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Stock futures moved lower in overnight trading, pointing to losses at the open on Thursday. The move pointed to a loss of 50 points, or 0.2%, for the Dow, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 slated to open 0.3% and 0.6% lower, respectively.  Stocks surged on Wednesday, with the major averages spending the entire session
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Carson Block Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Carson Block’s Muddy Waters Research announced Wednesday it has taken a short position in eHealth Inc., which owns a digital health insurance exchange.  Block, the firm’s founder, disclosed the position on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.“ Muddy Waters argues eHealth, with a stock market value of $3 billion as of Tuesday’s close,
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Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, right, speaks beside U.S. President Donald Trump during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Banks are scrambling to process a growing backlog of applications for the
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A framing art gallery is closed in Venice Beach, California’ during the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images Some small-business owners are growing increasingly worried that loan money being distributed as part of the coronavirus relief package will run out before they can access funds. The Paycheck Protection Program, which is being overseen
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