Shoppers exit a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Bed Bath & Beyond shares surged as much as 22% during extended trade after the company announced that Mark Tritton will take the helm as president and CEO
Month: October 2019
Man vaping while driving a car is seen in Gdansk, Poland on 9 July 2019 Police warn that vaping while driving may increases the risk of car accidents, due to reduced visibility caused by a large cloud of smoke which may momentarily blind drivers. Michal Fudra | NurPhoto | Getty Images Prudential Financial plans to
Hero Images | Hero Images | Getty Images If you’re still working well into your 60s, odds are you’re doing so to bolster your finances. More than 6 out of 10 people polled by Provision Living said that they’re working into retirement purely for financial reasons. The company, a provider of senior living communities, surveyed
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images It might be time to buy into small-cap stocks even though they are lagging their large-cap counterparts, some strategists say. The Russell 2000 — which tracks small-cap stocks — has dropped more
Stephen Moore Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump is an “exaggerator” who knew his policies wouldn’t generate the 5% growth he had promised while campaigning, according to Stephen Moore, who served as a campaign advisor for Trump and was a prospective Fed nominee. In an interview with The Intercept columnist Mehdi
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Town Hall at Keene State College on September 25, 2019 in Keene, New Hampshire. Scott Eisen | Getty Images Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced on Wednesday an environmental justice plan to defend low-income and minority communities against pollution, contamination and extreme weather events that
President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. has issued new sanctions on Iran’s central bank at the “highest level” while speaking in the Oval Office on September 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns could give the public an inside look at his finances
Getty Images Investors, business owners and consumers should be heeding the message that the inverted yield curve is sending, according to the researcher who pioneered the economic forecasting model. Duke University professor Campbell Harvey said people shouldn’t wait for the economic downturn he anticipates before taking preventive measures. “This is the time where you need
XIAOSHAN AIRPORT, HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA: An outbound tourist group is waiting for check-in in front of the counter of China Customs. Chinese nationals have become the largest number of foreign tourists visiting other countries in 2015 as the number of outbound visitors crossed 120 million, registering an 11 million increase from last year. Zhang
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media after the Board of Governors meetings on July 12, 2016 at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Dow | NBAE | Getty Images Chinese state media has slammed NBA head Adam Silver’s latest remarks, accusing him of supporting “indiscriminate violence” by Hong Kong protesters chasing
Hero Images | Getty Images If you’re looking to get engaged, take heart: You might not have to shell out a lot for that bling. That’s according to a recent survey from TD Ameritrade, which found that the traditional rule that an engagement ring should cost three months’ salary could be going by the wayside.
There’s a correlation between recent weakness in the stock market — led by certain sectors — and Elizabeth Warren’s surge in the polls, according to some analysts and strategists on Wall Street. One banking analyst, Oppenheimer’s Chris Kotowski, went so far as to title his latest research note “The Warren Correction,” where he pointed out
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the NABE annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Daniel Brenner | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Reserve will soon start growing its balance sheet again, a response in part to the jolt to overnight lending markets in September, Chairman
Richard Allison, CEO of Domino’s Pizza, speaks at CNBC’s Evolve conference in Chicago on Sept. 24, 2019. Jeff Schear | CNBC Domino’s Pizza on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expectations. Shares of the company fell nearly 4% in premarket trading. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting,
An employee works next to shoes on display inside the flagship store of sporting-goods giant Nike in Shanghai on March 16, 2017. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images An ongoing spat between the NBA and China could end up hurting Nike, which has ties to both the basketball organization and the region. Greater China,
About 100,000 ex-employees of General Electric will face a choice soon: stay in the company’s pension plan or accept a lump sum and cut ties instead. Whether you count yourself among those former GE workers or are employed by another company with a similar option on the table, advisors say the decision shouldn’t be made
Getty Images Investing legend Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of his namesake brokerage firm, said he would stay away from money-losing companies going public. “I would never buy a company like that that has huge losses and no sight ahead of you [about] how you are going to make money,” Schwab said in an interview
An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane takes off from Los Angeles International airport. Mike Blake | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of American Airlines dipped 1.65% during extended trading after authorities in Miami forcibly removed a man on a flight to Newark, New Jersey earlier Monday. The man reportedly
China’s largest online shopping sites owned by giants Alibaba and JD.com appear to have removed items related to the Houston Rockets after the NBA team’s general manager tweeted support for the Hong Kong anti-government protestors which drew strong criticism in the world’s second-largest economy. Searches in Chinese for “Houston Rockets” and “Rockets” on Alibaba-owned Taobao
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., D-N.J., speaks during a House Democrats’ news conference on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images When Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., D-N.J., visited a senior living center in Englewood, New Jersey, last week, he had one main focus: Social Security reform. Speaking to a room
Charles Schwab, chairman of Charles Schwab Corp., speaks in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. Charles Schwab said the broker’s latest move to zero commissions was a long-time goal to deliver to investors. “It was sort
At the very top of Twitter‘s corporate values website, there’s a statement: “We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world.” What’s left unsaid in the company’s value statement is: “What if you don’t want to impact the world?” The National Basketball Association and one of its franchises,
A worker looks at the 9HA Gas Turbine, at the General Electric plant in Belfort, France. Frederick Florin | AFP | Getty Images General Electric‘s announcement that it is freezing pension plans for about 20,000 U.S. employees is part of the company’s “next steps in the balance sheet unwind,” J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa wrote
Students arriving at school Hero Images | Getty Images Most people remember their first summer or after-school job, which provided cash to help pay for college or a car. Today, vehicles and higher education — among other expenses — cost significantly more. Yet fewer teenagers are working. The share of teens participating in the labor
For months now, we’ve been repeating the refrain “the consumer is strong, the consumer represents two thirds of GDP, the consumer will keep the economy growing” until it is the last thing we utter at night and the first words out of our mouth in the morning. The stock market has been a believer. As
[embedded content] [This stream is scheduled to begin Friday at 2 p.m. ET] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is set to speak Friday at a “Fed Listens” event organized by the central bank in Washington. The event is part of a monetary policy communication review by the Fed. Powell’s remarks will come after the release
Budweiser beer products manufactured by Anheuser-Busch InBev NV sit on display during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Kyle Lam | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s largest brewer is making a big push for China and other parts of Asia — but it could prove challenging for Anheuser-Busch
Retirees will spend a significant amount of money on health care. Still, many older Americans don’t plan properly for it. A healthy male-female couple retiring at age 65 in 2019 can now expect to shell out $285,000 on health-care expenses in retirement, according to Fidelity Investments’ annual analysis. Fidelity’s analysis, which assumes the couple are
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during a hearing “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices” on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 11, 2018. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images FANG became FANG out of
Katie Haun, Andreessen Horowitz general partner. Source: Andreessen Horowitz Seven years ago, bitcoin was a foreign language to federal prosecutor Katie Haun. That changed when her boss at the U.S. attorney’s office asked her to look into shutting it down. What’s now the most widely used cryptocurrency was a niche payment method being used in