Protective masks for sale are displayed in a store in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 2, 2020 in New York City. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images As the fight against the coronavirus continues, states are emphasizing the shortage of personal protective equipment for their health-care and front-line workers. Companies like Apple, AB Inbev and
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People wearing protective masks walk through Lu Xun Park in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg via Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. Global cases: At least 1,197,405 Global deaths: At least 64,606 Top 5 countries: United States (308,850), Spain (126,168), Italy (124,632), , Germany
A man cleans up on the trading floor, following traders testing positive for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters The coronavirus pandemic has roiled capital markets, but it has also led to something that was once unthinkable on Wall Street:
SIphotography | Getty Images It’s been about a week since Congress pushed through a new bill that will send $1,200 stimulus payments to millions of Americans. And your questions about who is eligible for that money and how soon it could arrive keep on coming. Individuals with adjusted gross income of up to $75,000 stand
Leaning on his experience as a restaurant owner, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday the U.S. government has an obligation to aid small businesses that are shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. “I had a business that was closed. It was doing great, and then one day I learned I was closed,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”
This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in Eastern time. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: At least 1,134,418. Global deaths: At least 60,115 US cases: At least 278,458 US deaths: At least 7,159 The data
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak are seen at the beginning of an OPEC and NON-OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria December 6, 2019. Leonhard Foeger | Reuters The virtual meeting between OPEC and its allies scheduled for Monday has been postponed, sources familiar with the
Mohamed El-Erian said Wednesday he would be hesitant to put cash to work, arguing the stock market is still on a downward trend due to the coronavirus pandemic. But he offered a roadmap for investors who feel inclined to add to their portfolios. “Whatever cash you have, divide it over five installments,” El-Erian said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” suggesting dollar
Damircudic As the country grapples with an unprecedented pandemic that’s left millions of Americans unemployed, the U.S. Department of Education is giving most federal student loan borrowers a break from their monthly bills until at least October. That reprieve started on March 13 and goes until Sept. 30. And during that time, no interest will
A view of an empty restaurant is seen at Grand Central Station on March 25, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Barry O’Donovan opened his Irish pub across from a railroad station used by Wall Street commuters just five days before Lehman failed. His business survived the Great Recession.
People gather at the entrance for the New York State Department of Labor offices in Brooklyn on March 20, 2020. The Federal Reserve estimates that 47 million people could lose their jobs before the COVID-19 crisis ends. Andrew Kelly | REUTERS A whopping 6.6 million people filed an unemployment claim last week, shattering the previous
U.S. government debt prices were higher Friday as the total number of global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note sank to 0.601% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also lower at 1.239%. Bond yields move inversely to prices. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide
The entrance to a Macy’s department store. Jeffrey Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Macy’s is being dropped from the S&P 500, and in a sign of how far the fortunes of the retail space have fallen amid the coronavirus-related shutdowns, it is not being demoted to the mid-cap S&P 400, it’s being
Elenaleonova | Getty Images Online tax preparation service TurboTax has launched a free stimulus registration website so that Americans who do not typically file tax returns can get their relief checks faster. Millions of Americans are slated to get one-time government checks of up to $1,200 or $2,400, based on whether they are single or
Daniel Chan is among a number of small-business owners who rely on the tech industry’s parties and conferences and are now staring at blank calendars with no idea of when they will be able to return to their livelihoods. Courtesy of Daniel Chan Daniel Chan makes a good living doing magic shows around the San
The Chinese national flag flies at half-mast at the Tienanmen Square to mourn victims of COVID-19 on April 4, 2020 in Beijing, China. China will hold a national mourning on Saturday for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus and compatriots died of COVID-19, according to the State Council. Fred Lee |
Silver Diner regional manager Omar Martinez, chef Ricardo Alvarez and operating partner Mandeep Shrestha carry out the last of that day’s 400 free meals to be given away during the coronavirus pandemic April 02, 2020 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Activity in the U.S. services sector slowed down in March as business
A barista packs a coffee for online sales at a Luckin Coffee store in Beijing, China July 17, 2018. Jason Lee | Reuters Here we go again. It sounds outrageous: The chief operating officer of Luckin Coffee, the largest domestic coffee chain in the China, was accused by his own company of fabricating much of
In times of market downturns, many of the stocks that take a beating will eventually rebound. Others, not so much. For investors who have a big portion of their assets in one particular stock, the current drubbing may serve as a reminder that diversification matters. It might also be time to make sure you still
Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg said Friday he doesn’t think the movie industry has to choose between releasing movies on the big screen or debuting them on streaming services. “I don’t think these things are mutually exclusive,” the co-founder of DreamWorks Animation said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” In fact, Katzenberg said he believes the film industry