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A trader works the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Yana Paskova | Bloomberg | Getty Images Payments company Square rose more than 5% in afternoon trading Monday after Bloomberg News reported the payments company could offer savings and checking accounts in the near future. The report said a code

On Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, Congress approved a 5,593-page, $2.3 trillion funding package consisting of a $900 billion end-of-the-year COVID-19 stimulus bill attached to a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the government through Sep. 30, 2021. After a delay, former President Donald Trump signed the bill on Sunday, Dec. 27. This bill, known

A delivery person for Doordash rides his bike in the rain during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 13, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters The U.S. economy is in the process of reopening, but going forward, the long-term picture is anything but clear. Investors

Are you financially secure? Almost all of the research conducted on the subject over the last few years shows that most individuals are unable to demonstrate financial security; particularly for their retirement years. This only underlines the fact that achieving financial security is a challenging process that requires careful planning and follow-through. To be sure, financial security means different

Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase, speaking at the Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit, December 6, 2018. Janhvi Bhojwani | CNBC JPMorgan Chase is going it alone. After the healthcare joint venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and the biggest U.S. bank by assets was disbanded earlier this year, the companies each vowed to continue

In this article ALKS Hiraman | E+ | Getty Images Company: Alkermes Plc (ALKS) Business: Alkermes is a biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops, and commercializes pharmaceutical products to address unmet medical needs of patients in various therapeutic areas in the United States, Ireland, and internationally. Its marketed products include ARISTADA (aripiprazole lauroxil), an extended-release intramuscular

Most of us assume that being overworked at our job is a routine part of employment in the 21st century. And while it’s true that we are all expected to do more than in the past, it’s important to recognize the signs of when being overworked is reaching a dangerous level. Below are five signs

In this article FIGS^11-BR The Robinhood application on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robinhood is giving amateur investors access to initial public offering shares in its latest move to democratize retail investing. IPO shares have historically been set aside for Wall Street’s institutional investors or high-net worth individuals. Retail traders typically don’t

In this article BTC.CM= DOGE.CM= ETH= Heidi Gutman | CNBC Veteran investor and IAC chairman Barry Diller said Friday that he didn’t trust cryptocurrencies and believes that the digital assets are “a con.” “I watch some of the people that you have on and they talk about it – $40,000, $12,000, whatever – I think

Income Effect vs. Substitution Effect: An Overview The income effect expresses the impact of increased purchasing power on consumption, while the substitution effect describes how consumption is impacted by changing relative income and prices. These economics concepts express changes in the market and how they impact consumption patterns for consumer goods and services. Different goods

A visual representation of digital currencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images If it is not already patently obvious, and has been for a couple years, it would seem we have entertained the Crazy Town section of Crypto-Land. We have jumped the shark, crossed the Rubicon. We are over our skis and out of our minds.

In this article AAPL GOOGL FB NFLX AMZN Google announced last week 60% of its workforce will work around three days a week in the office, 20% in new office locations, and 20% from home. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images If 2020 taught us that we were all naïve about

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every phase of American life, and shopping is no exception. It has wrought changes in what we buy, how we buy it, and how we pay for it. Let’s look at some areas where the coronavirus crisis been especially influential: purchase methods such as buy now, pay later (BNPL);

Crypto bull Meltem Demirors said Wednesday she believes the recent turbulence in bitcoin and ether are positive long-term developments, contending the optimistic story around the digital assets remains intact. “It’s been really frothy. There was a lot of leverage in the markets. Some of that got taken out in April,” the chief strategy officer at CoinShares

Drivers for Meituan and Alibaba-owned Ele.me en route to delivering items to customers in Guangzhou, China. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Some of the worst-performing Chinese internet stocks currently are the ones with the best value, according to the chief investment officer of Citi Global Wealth. These Chinese internet companies have enormous potential given the size

Mortgage rates are starting out this week slightly above the national averages of a week ago. Though rates on the two most common mortgage types, 30-year and 15-year conventional loans, dropped a bit on Friday, they had previously edged higher for four consecutive days. Macroeconomic factors were at play, as the 10-year treasury bond yield,

In this article .NSEI BTC.CB= MMIT-GB Emerging markets investing guru Mark Mobius said he likes Indian stocks even though Covid-19 cases in the country have surged, as “this is going to pass.” India’s stock benchmark Nifty 50 has risen around 8.1% this year as of Tuesday’s close. The index has climbed despite the country reporting

Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America Scott Mlyn | CNBC Bank of America said it is raising the minimum hourly wage it pays employees to $25 by the year 2025. The firm, which made the announcement Tuesday in a release, had just completed a plan last year to get to a $20 minimum wage. The

Running for president of the United States is an expensive proposition. In the 2012 presidential campaign, winning candidate Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each spent over $1 billion, in what was the most expensive presidential election ever at the time. In 2016, the overall cost of the White House race—spending by all the candidates— totaled

Server Nioka Mantilla arranges items in the buffet at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel on Penn Street in Reading, Pennsylvania, Friday morning May 7, 2021. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Reading Eagle via Getty Images The stunningly disappointing April jobs report shouldn’t be taken as an indictment against the fast-moving economic recovery but shouldn’t