The Roku 3 television streaming player menu is shown on a television in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Square – The payment company’s stock rose more than 6% after the company’s first-quarter earnings topped
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Henry McMaster, the governor of South Carolina. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images At least two states will soon kick workers off pandemic-era programs that expanded and raised unemployment benefits. The governors of Montana and South Carolina announced this week that they are ending their participation in the federal programs at the end of June. The
Packages containing a Green Dot Corp. prepaid Mastercard Inc. debit card and Visa Inc. debit card, left, are arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Another corporation is leaving California. Green Dot, a fintech firm and biggest U.S. provider of prepaid debit
In this article ARKK Cathie Wood, CEO and founder of ARK Invest. CNBC Cathie Wood, founder of Ark Invest, said Friday that the pullback in technology stocks is not a cause for concern, and that her long-term bets will continue to move higher. “I love this set up,” she said Friday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”
A trader works at the Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Goldman Sachs has formally kicked off the cryptocurrency trading era on Wall Street. The bank informed its markets personnel on Thursday that a newly created cryptocurrency trading desk had successfully traded two kinds of
In this article BYND EXPE PTON Roberto Machado Noa Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: Peloton — Shares of Peloton dropped more than 6% after the closing bell, when the fitness company reported fiscal third-quarter sales growth of 141%. Its per-share loss for the quarter was also smaller than expected
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Stock futures opened slightly higher Thursday as investors awaited Friday’s highly anticipated jobs report to assess the pace of the labor-market recovery. Dow futures were little changed, while contracts tied to the S&P 500 ticked just above the flatline. Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.1%. The Labor Department is set to publish
Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Married couples who file a joint tax return must wait longer than others to get a refund on their unemployment benefits. The dynamic is largely due to the complexity of calculating their refund relative to other taxpayers, according to tax experts and IRS officials. Unemployment benefits are typically taxed as
In this article ETSY RUN ZNGA Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Wednesday: Etsy — Shares of Etsy slid 7% despite the company its results beating top and bottom-line estimates for the first quarter. The e-commerce company earned $1 per share, compared to the 88-cent per share profit analysts surveyed by
In this article @1YM21M .DJI U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Wednesday, after the Dow closed at a record. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 6 points lower. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were both flat. During the session, the Dow gained 97 points