Odds are the screen you are using to read this was hauled in a truck at some point. More than 70% of freight in the U.S. is moved by truckers, making the job an essential part of the economy. Eight years ago, April Coolidge decided in her mid-40s to stop selling real estate and start
Shares of Moderna surged by more than 16% in premarket trading Thursday after it announced that the Food and Drug Administration cleared its coronavirus vaccine for phase 2 trial, what the company called a “crucial step.” Moderna said it will begin phase 2 trials with 600 participants shortly and is finalizing plans for a phase 3 trial
Cari Gundee rides her Peloton exercise bike at her home on April 06, 2020 in San Anselmo, California. Ezra Shaw | Getty Images Peloton‘s revenue surged 66% during the fiscal third quarter, as more people purchased its fitness equipment and tuned into its live classes, to try to break a sweat while stuck at home
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Raytheon Technologies (RTX) – The defense contractor reported quarterly profit of $1.78 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $1.22 a share. Revenue also beat forecasts and Raytheon said it would not provide a financial outlook at this time due to pandemic-related uncertainty.
In February, Barbara Corcoran, founder of real estate brokerage firm Corcoran Group and judge on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” was nearly scammed out of $400,000. “Scammers found their way to me in the most clever and simple way,” she tells CNBC Make It. The scammers emailed Corcoran’s bookkeeper pretending to be her assistant. The message contained
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters With one-third of S&P 500 companies declining to provide guidance, picking winners and losers has become a very delicate business. How
As the financial strain on the families of college students worsens, there’s one measure few schools have considered until now. A number of colleges are freezing tuition in hopes of attracting more students and families struggling with the weight of a higher-education tab. In the face of Covid-19, the College of William & Mary said it
With the U.S. economy largely shut down and the number of jobless Americans growing by millions each week, lawmakers in March moved swiftly to approve a historic stimulus package that would inject trillions of dollars into the economy as incomes and revenues evaporated. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act injects
Design of modern architecture. Top view from the bottom. Modern city architecture. Oleksandr Amid the coronavirus pandemic, renters in many states are protected by a temporary moratorium on evictions. However, the rules leave tenants across the country with a lot of unanswered questions. For example, can a landlord evict you as soon as the relief
Visitors watch fireworks explode over the Shanghai Disneyland castle at an event to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the park. STR | AFP | Getty Images In less than a week, Disney will reopen its Shanghai theme park, offering up a glimpse to the rest of the theme park industry of what