Giant letters, reading the word ‘blockchain’, are displayed at the blockchain centre, which aims at boosting start-ups, on February 7, 2018 in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. Petras Malukas | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING – As Chinese authorities rush to support businesses struggling to survive the effects of the new coronavirus, blockchain technology is showing its
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An entrance to a closed McDonald’s Corp. restaurant is barricaded near the famous West Lake, usually a popular tourist attraction, in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING – Two weeks after the Lunar New Year holiday was originally supposed to end, Chinese businesses are still getting
Wall Street used to be full of traders. Buying and selling stocks or bonds used to happen on the phone, in person or in the packed trading pits in Chicago, New York and London. Prestigious investment banks boasted of trading desks the size of football fields. Now, they’re losing money on trading operations and laying
Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during an unveiling event for the Boring Co. Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Robyn Beck | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:43 am: Retail sales report hitting futures? Retail
Federal Reserve nominee Judy Shelton faced a blistering confirmation hearing Thursday, as senators grilled her over her views on central bank independence, the gold standard and whether the money that people deposit at banks should be insured. Facing a barrage of criticism over multiple statements she has made over the years, Shelton defended herself as
People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Roku – Shares of the streaming company jumped 5% in extended
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, August 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:32 am: Alibaba slides 2% despite strong results Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba slid 2.4% in Thursday’s premarket trading despite better-than-expected results. For the third quarter the company
DBS Group Holdings in the central business district of Singapore. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images The ongoing spread of a new coronavirus disease, recently named COVID-19, could hit the revenue of Southeast Asia’s largest bank this year, its chief executive said on Thursday. Piyush Gupta, the CEO of Singaporean bank DBS, said the
David Solomon, CEO, Goldman Sachs, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galacia | CNBC Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that the stock market doesn’t yet care about Bernie Sanders’ surging campaign to become the Democratic presidential nominee. “Look at the markets,” Solomon told CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa on Wednesday.
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 10, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 9:31 am: Dow jumps 200 points to a record high The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 202 points at the open, hitting a
Kevin Plank, founder and chief executive officer of Under Armour Inc., speaks during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:19 am: Sprint, T-Mobile deal approved by judge A
Shoppers enter a building housing a Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. store in New York. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Lyft – The ridesharing company’s stock fell more than 5% in extended trading after reporting fourth-quarter financial results that beat expectations but did not
The Federal Reserve is “closely monitoring” the coronavirus, its impact on China and the effect that it could have on global economic growth, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. In his semiannual testimony before Congress, Powell said the new threat comes just as trade uncertainties have diminished, though the U.S. economy appears “resilient” to global headwinds.
Monzo co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield. Monzo Tom Blomfield doesn’t think big banks will ever undergo a digital transformation. The British fintech CEO says banking behemoths like Barclays and HSBC are saddled with outdated technology and a risk-averse culture to respond to the challenge that upstarts like his digital bank, Monzo, present. “The banks really
People pass by the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Chegg – The American education technology company’s stock dropped more than 4% in extended trading despite reporting financial results that beat on the top and bottom line. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit of
Chinese men wear protective masks as they walk in a nearly empty shopping street on February 2, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:41 am: Sanders nomination would raise Trump reelection odds: Raymond James Though conventional wisdom in the 2020 election cycle thus
Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp departs the Rolls Building on June 27, 2019 in London, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images Mike Lynch was once described in U.K. media as “Britain’s Bill Gates.” Now the entrepreneur faces potential extradition to the United States. Lynch, the founder of U.K. tech firm Autonomy,
A worker inspects an order at a JD.com delivery station in Yizhuang, Beijing, amid the coronavirus outbreak. Hilary Pan | CNBC BEIJING — More people are stuck at home in China as they wait out the coronavirus outbreak, giving some delivery and e-commerce companies an opportunity, even as they try to manage the risks of
Pinterest screen on a mobile phone Source: Pinterest Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Pinterest — The online scrapbook company’s stock rose more than 17% in extended trading after it beat analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and monthly active users. Pinterest reported fourth-quarter earnings of 12 cents per share excluding some items
Canada Goose (GOOS) – The outerwear maker reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, but also said the coronavirus outbreak is having a “material negative impact” during the current quarter. The company did add that no supply chain interruptions have occurred as a result of the virus. Hanesbrands (HBI) – The underwear