A girl wearing a face mask plays on her scooter at a park in Beijing on February 15, 2020. Wang Zhao | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 1:38 pm: Japan confirms 70 more cases on Diamond Princess cruise ship
A health worker measures the body temperature of a person during the heavy snowfall amid coronavirus fears. Coronavirus (COVID-19) has killed more than 1,500 people in China and infected more than 66,000 people. SOPA Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Chinese
A logo is displayed next to a gas turbine at the General Electric Co. (GE) energy plant in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. General Electric Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 20. Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty Images The Trump administration may stop exporting jet engines manufactured partly
Hillary Clinton speaks onstage at ‘Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton discuss their new book ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’ at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on November 05, 2019 in Los Angeles, Emma McIntyre | Getty Images Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a vice presidential running mate after positive internal polling about
A hot tax-advantaged opportunity is making the rounds among financial advisors. Just make sure you don’t overlook the risks. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into effect in 2018, established so-called qualified opportunity zones — economically disadvantaged areas across the country. Funds specializing in qualified opportunity zones allow people to invest in these
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
A man runs past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Bloomberg The portfolio manager who helps run a mutual fund that consistently beats the market and its peers said the key to his success is being able to wait for stocks to pop. The D.F. Dent Premier Growth Fund, which has returned over 15% annually
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at the SpaceX launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Bronte Wittpenn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla‘s stock has piqued the interest of professional and retail traders alike as they try
TOPSHOT – Vehicles run on the Paris’ ring road, the “Peripherique”, on December 9, 2019 in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, during a strike of Paris public transports over French government’s plan to overhaul the country’s retirement system, as part of a national strike. JACQUES DEMARTHON | AFP | Getty Images An 80-year-old Chinese tourist
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 12:55 pm: China bans insurers from offering virus-specific products China’s deputy chair of the banking and insurance regulator, Liang Tao, said Saturday at a press conference that there are already more than 400 insurance products that can cover risks
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
This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 4:05 pm: Stocks end the day little changed, but post a gain for the week Stocks finished Friday’s session little changed, but did post weekly gains across the board. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 25.57 points, or 0.09%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 25.23 points The Dow slid 25.23 points, or 0.1%, to 29,398.08. The S&P 500 gained 0.1% to close at 3,380.16. The Nasdaq Composite closed 0.2% higher at 9,731.18. Stocks teetered along the flatline for most of the day, but Wall Street posted a weekly gain. Back-to-back weekly gains despite coronavirus
Many Americans seem to be addicted to income tax refunds, even though financial planners often advise having less tax withheld from your pay throughout the year as the better way to manage your cash flow. Nearly two-thirds of taxpayers — more than 111 million Americans — received a refund from the Internal Revenue Service last
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday by a jury of all three charges related to his efforts to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike, in what a top prosecutor called “and old fashioned shakedown.” The verdict in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came two years after Avenatti gained widespread notoriety
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
Netflix, Apple TV and Prime Video. egadolfo I signed up recently for a clothing subscription service called NUULY. The company lets you wear six items a month for $88. But what the service provides me feels deeper. For that fee, I can arrive to a date in a $860 designer coat, which wouldn’t normally be
The next two weeks will be crucial in determining the economic impact of the coronavirus, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. In that time, factories are due to reopen in China, which would give a “better understanding on the resilience of China and on that basis, the spillover for the rest of
Adrian Peterson #26 of the Washington Redskins looks on after being tackled by the Philadelphia Eagles during the first half at FedExField on Dec. 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. Scott Taetsch | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Adrian Peterson is heading to arbitration against Morgan Stanley Wealth Management over an investment dispute, the latest
Marijuana plants grow in the Mother Room at the Canopy Growth Corp. facility in Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Chris Roussakis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Canopy Growth Corp reported a smaller-than-expected loss in the third quarter on Friday, as the Canadian cannabis company kept a tight lid on costs, and
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during a ceremony at the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla priced its secondary common stock offering at $767 a share, the company said Friday, in a move that will likely be seen as
Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images AstraZeneca forecast a likely slowdown in revenue growth this year, assuming a hit from China’s coronavirus epidemic lasting up to a few months, although it added there had been limited disruption to its operations so far. Shares in the company, one of the world’s major drugmakers, tumbled as
Jhanilka and Anthony Hartzog say they could have saved an extra $5,000 or $6,000 if they’d hired an accountant in their first year. Source: Jhanilka and Anthony Hartzog If only you could go back in time, but with today’s 20/20 vision. Starting a business is a little like that. You’re fired up with enthusiasm for
Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Airlines Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC on Friday that the company is going “fully carbon neutral” on a global basis starting March 1. “It’s a big challenge and it’s a big commitment,” Bastian said on “Squawk Box.” Delta is committing at least $1 billion
Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island are classic New England islands. Framed by white sand beaches, these photogenic locations are dotted with Victorian architecture and Federal-style brick mansions built by sea captains and industrialists who profited from the once-thriving whaling trade. Lighthouses, dramatic bluffs and windswept dunes complete the alluring picture that keeps tourists coming
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 11:22 am: Singapore must be prepared for cases to climb, minister says Singapore must be prepared that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country could continue to climb in the coming weeks, said Janil Puthucheary, senior
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
Anthony Wood David Orrell | CNBC Roku reported earnings for its fourth quarter of 2019 Thursday that beat analyst estimates for quarterly revenue and included a lower loss per share than analysts expected. Shares of Roku rose as much as 9% after hours on the report but later settled around 5%. Here are the key
Barbie dolls for sale at a Target store. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Mattel turned in mixed fourth-quarter results after holiday revenue was weighed down by continuing sales declines in its American Girl and Fisher-Price brands. The company’s stock initially dropped, but now was up about 5% in extended trading, after posting the results. Sales during
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 128.11 points The Dow fell 128.11 points, or 0.4%, to 29,423.31. The S&P 500 dipped 0.1% to close at 3,373.94. The Nasdaq Composite slid 0.1% to 9,711.97. Stocks fell as investors grappled with a jump
