People wear protective face masks outside Walgreens pharmacy in Union Square as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on September 24, 2020 in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance reported Thursday fiscal first-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, helped
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Money manager Yana Barton expects Big Tech and health care to dominate market gains for the next 12 months and beyond. Despite a recent Wall Street rotation into economically sensitive groups, Barton wants to stick with what’s working. “All the secular tailwinds that were with us in 2020 are only accelerating,” Eaton Vance’s growth equity
A sign hangs from a branch of Banco Santander in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — Mambu is the latest financial technology company to achieve the coveted status of “unicorn.” Headquartered in Berlin, Mambu sells software to banks both big and small to help them
Source: American Express American Express shares fell after the Wall Street Journal reported that the investigative arms of three U.S. financial agencies were probing the card issuer’s sales practices. Shares of the company dipped 1.3% Thursday after falling as much as 5% earlier. The offices of the inspectors general of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department
U.S. stock futures rose in overnight trading on Wednesday as investors digested the likely event of a Democratic held Congress and continued to look past riots at the U.S. Capitol. Dow Jones Industrial average futures rose 125 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.6% and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.9%. During Wednesday’s trading session, markets were
. Mike Segar | Reuters There’s now nearly a half-billion dollars nestled in the Mega Millions jackpot. With no ticket matching all six numbers drawn on Tuesday, the game’s top prize has ballooned to $490 million for Friday night’s drawing. Powerball’s jackpot isn’t far behind: $410 million for the Wednesday night drawing. If you’re daydreaming
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, stands on the construction site of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin, September 3, 2020. Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed
Dan Henry, CEO of Green Dot Source: Green Dot Green Dot, a fintech player that’s often overlooked compared to bigger rivals PayPal and Square, has been on a tear lately, with its stock climbing 140% last year. Still, the company’s shares have ample room to run as it launches a digital bank account for low
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Despite the chaos at the Capitol, the S&P 500 closed Wednesday at a new high, which baffled some observers. “I think most feel this [the Washington protests] is more of a one-off situation, that this as an isolated event as opposed to some
Chamath Palihapitiya speaking at the 2017 Delivering Alpha conference in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. David A. Grogan | CNBC Consumers have been sitting at home for months and months, and without typical things to spend money on, assets in bank accounts are growing. And that is a positive sign for stocks, according to
Chamath Palihapitiya speaking at the 23rd Annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York City on April 23, 2018. Heidi Gutman | CNBC Online finance start-up SoFi is set to go public by merging with a blank-check company run by venture capital investor Chamath Palihapitiya, the companies announced Thursday. The merger with Palihapitiya’s SPAC, Social Capital
Uber driver picking up customer. Al Seib | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Self-employed and gig workers applied for unemployment benefits last week at half the level from the week prior, according to Labor Department data reported Thursday. That suggests a strong rebound, breaking from persistently high — even increasing — levels in recent
In the stimulus package signed into law last month, the national ban on evictions was extended through January and a $25 billion pot of money was established for renters struggling amid the health and economic crisis. That money will help to keep many of the 14 million Americans who are behind on their rent in
Getty Images Millions of second stimulus checks are being deployed to help Americans who are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Even so, some may be asking, “Where is my money?” A new set of payments was authorized by Congress with the latest $900 billion coronavirus relief package. This time, the checks will be up to
SDI Productions | E+ | Getty Images If your stimulus payment came in below what you expected, you may get a second shot at claiming the money when you file your 2020 tax return. In the waning days of 2020, the federal government began sending out its second round of stimulus checks to millions of
A baker places long molds of freshly kneaded sourdough dough onto racks for baking inside of Reineckers Bakery in Macedonia, Ohio, Oct. 7, 2020. Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images Small businesses hit by the pandemic recently got some good news – the $900 billion relief act signed into law by President Donald Trump
ELLICOTT, MD – NOVEMBER, 20:Regina Peterson, 83y, and Linda Umstead, are delighted while speaking to … [+] Howard County students that deliver food to her and other disadvantaged senior citizens at the Tiber Hudson Apartment Building, (Photo by Evy Mages/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post via Getty Images Workers’ retirement accounts
By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue getty During a recent Minnesota Public Radio program I hosted about Social Security, I was surprised at the number of callers with questions and complaints about the program’s survivor benefits for widows and widowers. One caller protested the “unfairness” of the benefits since she felt they ignored her own work
SARASOTA, FLORIDA – JANUARY 04: Charles Miller, 90, prepares the daily pills his wife will need for … [+] the week. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images In its massive end-of-year spending bill, Congress slipped in some important changes that may improve Medicare coverage for hundreds of thousands of older
MAJADAHONDA, MADRID, SPAIN – MAY 11. A mother in Spain working while taking care of her infant … [+] child. (Photo by Miguel Pereira/Getty Images) Getty Images Even while the nation struggles with vaccinations, we want to know if the Covid-19 pandemic has made permanent changes to the economy, with some observers assuming office work will
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