Source: BioNTech The U.S. should be able to distribute enough coronavirus vaccine doses to immunize 100 million people by the end of February, President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 vaccine czar said Wednesday. That will be enough doses to protect a “significant portion” of the most at-risk Americans, which are the elderly, health-care workers and people with preexisting
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Elizabeth Holmes David Orrell | CNBC In what is expected to be one of the most high profile trials in years, Elizabeth Holmes will face jurors wearing clear face masks in a socially distanced courtroom, a judge said Wednesday. The trial, to begin March 9, 2021 at a San Jose federal courthouse is expected to
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Palantir — The tech company slid more than 10% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to underweight. The firm said Palantir now trades at a “significant premium” to its peers following shares’ more than 100% jump since the company went public on Sept. 30. Tesla —
The facade of Blue Origin’s new rocket engine factory in Huntsville, Alabama. CNBC | Michael Sheetz The chief operating officer of Jeff Bezos’ private space company Blue Origin is leaving, the company confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday. Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith wrote in an e-mail to the company that COO Terry Benedict’s last day
PeopleImages | E+ | Getty Images Back in March, a couple who had recently sold their business called me to express concerns about their decision to sell and retire. With Covid-19 raging, the stock market quickly dropped in value and their retirement savings were in decline. They asked a straightforward question: Did they need to
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) holds a chart as bipartisan members of the Senate and House gather to announce a framework for fresh coronavirus relief legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Dec. 1, 2020. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters Main Street has been clamoring for a new round of federal relief, with 83% of
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, talks with reporters following the weekly Republican Senate conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Dec. 1. The Senate GOP leaders were asked about the chances of Congress passing another coronavirus relief bill along with must-pass government funding legislation.
By Jon Friedman, Next Avenue getty A few months ago, I received the kind of jolt from my tax preparer that many of us will get sooner or later. He informed me that he’d decided to retire in the coming years. There’s no easy answer when you have to make an assessment that could affect
Getty If the good news keeps flowing, vaccine rollouts should commence this month, a hugely positive development, but one that leaves some remote workers wondering when they’ll be called back into the office. Companies largely aren’t yet moving in that direction. Two studies published this week, one from VTS, a real estate software firm whose
Given taxes and filing deadlines, would your prefer pay in 2020 or the first week in January? “Pay me next year” requests are common this time of year with employers, suppliers, vendors, customers, and more. After all, if you are paid in December of 2020, taxes are due April 15, 2021. If you are paid in early
A worker passes a line of freezers holding coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate BNT162b2 at a Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium in an undated photograph. Pfizer | via Reuters The U.K. became the first country in the world to authorize the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, making it available from next week. “The Government has today accepted
Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to shift its focus away from Silicon Valley, announcing Tuesday that it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, California, to Houston, Texas. “HPE’s largest U.S. employment hub, Houston is an attractive market to
Many charities have seen a surge in donations since the coronavirus crisis began. Now, on Giving Tuesday, pandemic-related nonprofits could get an unprecedented extra bump. Charitable donations generally get a big boost on “Giving Tuesday,” a single day specifically focused on charity in the shopping-heavy week after Thanksgiving. Last year, the #GivingTuesday effort raised nearly $2
It may be a good time to lock in market gains for the year. Credit Suisse’s Jonathan Golub believes the latest all-time highs will run into trouble this month. “If you’re somebody who just came into a boatload of money … perhaps [wait] until after inauguration,” the firm’s chief U.S. equity strategist told CNBC’s “Trading
PixelsEffect | E+ | Getty Images In between the small gatherings of close family this holiday season, there may be more quiet moments and time for reflection than usual. For financial advisors, this can be a time to pause and think about the lessons we have learned in 2020. As I started to think about
Overdraft fees are at all-time highs amid the pandemic. Ivan-balvan | iStock | Getty Images When the coronavirus pandemic brought American life to a halt in mid-March, Erin Madden was furloughed from her job as a bartender at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California. Difficulty finding new work and a delay in her unemployment benefits caused
BOSTON, MA – SEPTEMBER 2: A Care partner helps a resident during lunch at an assisted living … [+] facility. (Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Boston Globe via Getty Images The statistics simply are staggering. More than 728,000 residents and staff of long-term care facilities have contracted covid-19 over the
Eric is a real estate investor and founder of MartelTurnkey. MartelTurnkey sells rental properties to investors looking for passive income. getty It’s undeniable that Covid-19 has had a massive impact on the world, not to mention thousands of industries. One of the most notable affected has been real estate, as people across the world struggle to
Grover Cleveland at Desk (Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Corbis/VCG via Getty Images No matter how you voted in the presidential election, Grover Cleveland should be your guy this month. If you’re a disappointed Trump supporter, take solace in Cleveland’s singular achievement: He is the only American president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. We tend to think
Salesforce shares moved 4% lower in extended trading on Tuesday after the enterprise software maker reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.15 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 75 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $5.42 billion, vs. $5.25 billion as expected by