Month: June 2020

Attorney General William Barr told the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, that he is fired in a letter Saturday, amid a power struggle over who will fill one of the most important federal law enforcement positions in the nation.  The Trump administration moved Friday night to nominate Securities and Exchange Commissioner Jay Clayton
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Wirecard, once hailed as the darling of Germany’s financial technology scene, is now facing a fight for survival amid scrutiny into its accounting practices. The payments processor said Thursday, for the fourth time, that it couldn’t publish its financials for 2019. Auditors at EY couldn’t account for 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) of cash on
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More people will be eligible to take a $100,000 coronavirus-related distribution from their retirement account. The IRS released guidance on Friday which details new rules for individuals affected by Covid-19 to take a withdrawal from a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. The CARES Act allows savers to take coronavirus-related distributions – emergency withdrawals
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TOPLINE Despite a minor sell-off on Friday, stocks have rebounded from the coronavirus recession strongly in recent months—too strongly, according to research from Vital Knowledge founder Adam Crisafulli, who believes investors are too optimistic about a quick economic recovery and the market is now overvalued. Investors aren’t paying “nearly enough attention to the enormous permanent
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Getty So, there’s some good news: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is processing paper tax returns. And then there’s some not-so-good news: The estimated backlog of unopened IRS mail stands at 11 million. That’s the report from Sunita Lough, IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, and is consistent with statements made at the beginning
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Barry Rosenstein, founder of JANA Partners. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Company: Perspecta Inc. (PRSP) Business: Perspecta provides end-to-end information technology services and mission solutions to government customers. The company serves intelligence, defense, space, federal civilian, federal healthcare and state and local governments. It provides various solutions in mission services, digital transformation and enterprise operations. Stock Market
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Getty Social Security’s already-precarious financial condition will become worst because of the current economic downturn. The question many economists and policy analysts are trying to answer is: How bad will the system’s financial condition be? The trustees of Social Security issued their latest annual report in April, but the report didn’t include the downturn. The
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For 25 days, Americans have been demanding from the country’s civic and corporate leaders their plans to tackle police brutality and systemic racism during protests that have gripped the nation following the killing of George Floyd.  On Friday, Juneteenth, many of those leaders have a big first opportunity to put into action the rhetoric that
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Dr. Jane Goodall speaks during the ‘Dr. Jane Goodall’s MasterClass’ New York screening in New York City. John Lamparski | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images World-renowned anthropologist Jane Goodall has said young people should be striving towards different standards of success, besides money and fame.  Speaking to CNBC from last week’s CogX conference, Goodall
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Ungureanu Vadim | EyeEm | Getty Images Many student loan borrowers were suffering when the pandemic shuttered the economy. Americans collectively hold more than $1.6 trillion in student debt. According to credit monitoring service Experian, Gen Z saw their student debt balances increase by 9% from the first quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019 —
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