Month: July 2019

Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snap Inc. Adam Galica | CNBC Shares of Snapchat parent company Snap rose on Thursday after Bank of America said a recent spike in app downloads will drive better revenue results for the company’s upcoming second-quarter earnings. “In May, Snap’s ‘gender-face-swap’ filter went viral and SnapKit app ‘Yolo’ reached
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The wealth tax proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren has sparked a fierce — and increasingly personal — debate between the party’s traditional academic elite and the darlings of the new left. Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and longtime economic guru of the Democratic party, published an op-ed in the Washington Post in April saying
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Levi Strauss reported a 17% drop in quarterly adjusted profit on Tuesday, hit by a stronger dollar, higher marketing costs, and investments in its online business, sending its shares down 6% in extended trading. The company has been spending heavily on marketing and advertising by roping in celebrities and social media influencers, including Justin Timberlake,
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Andrew Matthews | PA Images | Getty Images The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) is working with tech giant Amazon to provide people with “reliable health information” via voice assisted technology. Authorities said Wednesday that the technology would enable patients to “get professional, NHS-verified health information in seconds” using simple voice commands. An algorithm will
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Planning to reinvest those pesky required withdrawals from your individual retirement account or 401(k) plan because you don’t need the money? Under the Secure Act, a bill pending in Congress right now that aims to improve the nation’s retirement savings, you’d have to start taking withdrawals from your IRA (and most other retirement accounts) at
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If you’ve been wanting to own shares in the latest generation of space companies, now is your first chance. Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment vehicle of venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, is merging with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in a deal that will open the space tourism company to public investors later this year. Social Capital
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Big players on the Wall Street have termed Deutsche Bank’s major restructuring drive as “very deep,” “radical” as well as “challenging.” Deutsche Bank announced Sunday that it will pull out of its global equities sales and trading operations, scale back its investment banking and slash thousands of jobs as part of a sweeping restructuring plan
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Greater consolidation is needed across the continental European banking sector if it is to thrive again after the financial crisis, according to Standard Chartered chairman Jose Vinals. Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the Europlace Financial Forum in Paris, Vinals suggested that in light of “tremendous restructuring” in many international and domestic European banks since
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Getty Images PepsiCo on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations. Shares of the company rose less than 1% in premarket trading. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share: $1.54, adjusted, vs. $1.50 expected Revenue: $16.449
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