Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 10, 2020. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Senate will vote on a $500 billion coronavirus stimulus bill on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday, as a larger bipartisan deal remains elusive despite continued talks between top Democrats
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Pfizer, BioNTech – Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said the vaccine candidate under development by the two drug makers could be ready for an Emergency Use Authorization application by late November. Separately, Pfizer and BioNTech are scaling up manufacturing capability for their experimental coronavirus vaccine,
Morsa Images | DigitalVision | Getty Images Chances are, you aren’t seriously thinking about how to pay for long-term care when you are older. Most people only think about it at two points in their lives: when their parents need it or when they start to get much older and realize they need to have
getty If you’ve been paying the least bit attention, you know there’s a concern that some 401(k) plans have excessive fees. Recent headlines attest to this, as plans are regularly involved in “excessive” fee lawsuits. Is your 401(k) plan burdened by high fees? Do you even know how to judge when a fee is too
New York City condominium 77 Greenwich offers discounted prices to buyers whose offices are within … [+] walking distance. Binyan Studios What do you do when you need to lure residential buyers back to New York City in an era of commuting anxiety? This remains, after all, a time when many would-be buyers view trains,
UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1931: Al Capone, pictured in court during his trial, Chicago, 1931. He was … [+] sentenced to a 10 years in federal prison and one year in county jail for a total sentence of 11 years. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images) Getty Images On this day
Melissa Leaston Director of nursing at Whittier Street Health Center swabs Steve Rose of Boston at a COVID testing site in Nubian Square on October 15, 2020 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Matt Stone | MediaNews Group | Boston Herald via Getty Images The United States reported more than 69,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest
After weeks of negotiating a stimulus package, Congress remains at an impasse. Although President Trump on Thursday said he would “go higher” than the $1.8 trillion he offered in his aid proposal, his administration has yet to reach an agreement with House Democrats, who recently passed a $2.2 trillion measure. Complicating matters, Senate Republicans have
People wait in their cars as they line up to collect unemployment forms in Hialeah, Florida. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Millions of workers have lost their jobs — and their employer-sponsored health insurance — due to the coronavirus pandemic. But other options are available to those who lose health coverage. These include Medicaid, an
Integrated circuits on a circuit board. The semiconductor industry has been in focus during the U.S.-China trade war. filonmar | E+ | Getty Images Company: ON Semiconductor Corp (ON) Business: A premier semiconductor company that focuses on power and sensor products. ON Semi’s segments include (i) Power Solutions Group, which offers a range of discrete,
In mid-September, the envelope finally arrived. As Erin Madden opened it and pulled out the debit card with her unemployment benefits on it, all she could think about was the half a year she’d waited for this moment. She had come to feel it would never happen. “I almost didn’t believe that it had finally
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks during a voter mobilization event, at Miramar Regional Park in Miramar, Florida, October 13, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters With the presidential election coming, Carolyn Bothwell, a freelance copywriter from Charlestown, Massachusetts, has been hearing from concerned members of the freelancer community she started, Freelance Founders, about
ITALY – CIRCA 2003: Procession of the notaries through the streets of Perugia for the Feast of … [+] Candlemas, miniature from the manuscript concerning notaries’ guilds in Perugia. Italy, 15th century. Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare (Library) (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) De Agostini via Getty Images Who are “WEIRD” people? It’s a clever acronym, to denote
Amazon’s proposed Pen Place in Pentagon City JBG SMITH PROPERTIES The plan to completely transform Crystal City, VA into Amazon’s AMZN second headquarters is still meeting milestone after milestone, most recently with the acquisition of a Marriott Residence Inn. Acorn Development LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon, purchased the building for $148.5 million a few weeks
A member of the medical staff treats a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Slany Hospital in Slany, Czech Republic, October 13, 2020. David W. Cerny | Reuters The World Health Organization said Friday that Europe‘s coronavirus outbreak is “concerning” as the number of available intensive
United Airlines’ Boeing 747-400 aircraft performed its last passenger flight on November 7, 2017. NurPhoto Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Boeing — Shares popped more than 3% after Patrick Ky, the head of Europe’s aviation regulator, said the company’s beleaguered 737 Max jet is safe to fly again. He added the
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. Sarah Silbiger | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Americans are hurting financially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and that includes the nation’s seniors. Now, two House Democratic lawmakers are hoping to help retirees with a bill to increase next year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., is introducing a
On October 14, 2020, FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network unit of the Treasury Department that handles millions of FBAR reports on foreign bank accounts, announced that you had until December 31, 2020 to file your 2019 FBAR. Extra time, what a relief! Then, late on October 15, the due date for extended IRS tax
getty We tend to worry about retirement quite a bit, and with good reason. There are a number of different risks that could eat into your hard-earned retirement savings. The average joe often thinks of these risks as one or more of the following: a market crash, crippling debt, rising healthcare costs, and poor overall
Home buyers expand their needed requirements to meet the demands of work from home and distance … [+] learning getty Last week, Box, Inc., told their staff that they can work from home permanently. Box joins numerous companies who have told their employees that they have the option of working from home indefinitely. We have