In this article 6758.T-JP Paul Simon performs onstage during The Nearness Of You Benefit Concert at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 20, 2015 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Sony Music Publishing announced Wednesday that it acquired Paul Simon’s entire song catalog, …
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen laid out a three-pronged agenda on Wednesday to address what she described as ongoing threats to the nation’s financial system. Presiding over the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which she now leads but was once a member, Yellen said last year’s market disruptions at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic could have …
In this article HE AAL UAL UNH DAL United Airlines’ Mileage Plus program earned top scores from WalletHub in categories such as ease of advance booking of reward travel and fewer mandatory layovers. United Airlines Air travel is set to boom this year as Americans tired of being cooped up in Covid lockdown look to …
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In this article DISCA David Zaslav Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Discovery’s lightly traded class B shares surged 80% on Wednesday, showing a spike in volume and divergence from the company’s class A shares that is highly unusual. The class B stock, which often sees volume of less than 10,000 shares in a day, had already …
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Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images The IRS will start issuing tax refunds in May to Americans who filed their returns without claiming a new break on unemployment benefits, the federal agency said Wednesday. The American Rescue Plan waived federal tax on up to $10,200 of unemployment benefits, per person, received in 2020. Households with $150,000 …
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In this article BNTX PFE The United States’ Covid-19 cases are trending upward again, with nationwide infection levels far below January’s peak of about 250,000 new cases per day but approaching numbers seen during the summer surge when average daily case counts reached nearly 70,000. In an effort to speed up the vaccination campaign, many …
In this article ACB-CA AAPL HOG BB-CA CLF PVH CHWY APHA-CA WEED-CA TLRY LULU WBA BNTX PFE AMAT Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Chewy (CHWY) – The pet products seller earned a surprise profit of 5 cents per share, compared to expectations of a 10 cents per share …
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In this article GS MS BTC.CB= A Goldman Sachs logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is close to offering its first investment vehicles for bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management group, CNBC has learned exclusively. …
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards This year’s tax season has turned out to be a complicated one — the American Rescue Plan made changes midseason, and the IRS pushed back the filing deadline for individual returns to May 17 from April 15. Even though most Americans have extra time to file, 32% of taxpayers are …
Brazil just reached a grim Covid-19 milestone, and a reporter based in Sao Paulo doesn’t see the situation improving in the near future. “We have people dying because of lack of oxygen, people are literally suffocating,” Patricia Campos Mello, a reporter for Folha de Sao Paulo, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” on Tuesday. …
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In this article US10Y SMH MCHP NXPI TXN ADI .IXIC Paul Meeks is wary of the group that made him famous on Wall Street. The investor, known for running the world’s largest technology fund during the late 1990s, says it’s the wrong time to aggressively put money to work in tech. “You have to play …
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In this article ETH.CM= BTC.CM= The buyer of the $69 million NFT by the artist Beeple said he was prepared to bid even higher, since it will be seen by history as the starting point of a new age of digital art. In his first television interview, Vignesh Sundaresan, also known as MetaKovan, told CNBC’s …
In this article BAC Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bank of America is expanding its racial justice initiative, devoting more funding toward advocacy and equality for communities of color. “The urgency we feel to address long-standing issues of inclusion and racial inequality has only increased following the attacks and hate speech directed …
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In this article FB SFY Monitors display Bumble signage during the company’s initial public offering in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Feb. 11. Bloomberg | Getty Images It looks like Main Street is poised to get in on an investment that’s been largely off-limits: initial public offerings. At least two trading …
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In this article VOW3-DE Ashlee Espinal | CNBC German automaker Volkswagen will not be changing the name of its U.S. operations to Voltswagen of America after all. The news, which appeared to leak out on its U.S. media site Monday and was formally announced in a press release Tuesday, was part of an elaborate April …
In this article LULU Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Lululemon store in San Francisco, California, on Monday, March 29, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lululemon on Tuesday reported revenue and profit for the holiday quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by the athletic apparel maker’s online business, and double-digit …
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Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images The IRS warned Tuesday of a tax-refund phishing scam targeting college students and staff who believe they have a pending tax refund. Con artists are using fake e-mails to impersonate the federal tax agency. The messages display the IRS logo and use subject lines like “Tax Refund Payment” …
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Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban has created and invested in many profitable companies — and one of his secrets to success is hiring the right people. “You want the best,” Cuban, investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said on a recent episode of the “Starting Greatness” podcast. “You want the people …
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In this article AMZN An AWS Ground Station satellite antenna at one of the company’s data center in Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new space startup assistance program on Tuesday, with the tech giant partnering with U.K.-based venture firm Seraphim Capital on the project. The AWS Space Accelerator is …
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Robert Daly | Getty Images The Biden administration is expanding an existing pause on student loan interest and collections to include more than 1.1 million borrowers who are in default, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The borrowers, whose defaulted loans are part of the Federal Family Education Loan program, were ineligible for the …
