Month: December 2020

DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – 2020/10/10: A Trump 2020 re-election sign and an American … [+] flag are displayed on a piece of farm equipment in Valley Township, Montour County, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Paul Weaver/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s election, there’s lots of attention
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Stock futures were little changed in overnight trading on Thursday as investors awaited a key November jobs report to gauge the pace of labor market recovery in the face of a worsening pandemic. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 60 points. S&P 500 futures were little changed and Nasdaq 100 futures traded 0.2%
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Tony Hsieh, former CEO of Zappos.com Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who died last week from injuries sustained in a house fire, did not leave behind a will, according to published reports. Hsieh, who retired in August from the shoe and clothing online retailer, succumbed to complications from smoke
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about whether widow’s benefits increase when a late spouse’s previous spouse passes away and no longer collects on the late spouse’s record, whether it’s possible to change when checks arrive and taking spousal benefits before retirement benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University
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Joachim Kuhn, chief executive officer of Vac-Q-Tec, looks at global distribution screens at the company’s factory in Wurzburg, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM cyber security analysts on Thursday said they uncovered an email phishing scheme targeting global coronavirus vaccine supply chains, and urged cold-chain companies to
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Express (EXPR) — Shares of Express tanked 25% after the retailer reported a wider-than-expected earnings loss. Express said it lost $1.39 per share in the third quarter, versus an estimated loss of 51 cents per Refinitiv. Its revenue also missed expectations. Tesla (TSLA) — Shares
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When Bob Iger became the CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, he had a risky idea: buy Pixar. At the time, Walt Disney Animation Studios had been “faltering,” Iger said during an interview with Bloomberg’s “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” published Wednesday. Pixar and Disney had a joint venture to co-produce Pixar’s films,
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Many of the nation’s top companies, including Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Ford, Google and Walmart, are calling on the new administration to address climate change and come up with long-term solutions in response to concerns from investors, customers, communities and employees. In a letter to President-elect Joe Biden and the new Congress, 42 corporations urged the government
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