Marijuana plants grow in the Mother Room at the Canopy Growth Corp. facility in Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Chris Roussakis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Canopy Growth said on Friday it will focus on reducing costs as the pot producer struggles with a slump in weed prices from oversupply and
Month: February 2020
An entrance to a closed McDonald’s Corp. restaurant is barricaded near the famous West Lake, usually a popular tourist attraction, in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING – Two weeks after the Lunar New Year holiday was originally supposed to end, Chinese businesses are still getting
Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island are classic New England islands. Framed by white sand beaches, these photogenic locations are dotted with Victorian architecture and Federal-style brick mansions built by sea captains and industrialists who profited from the once-thriving whaling trade. Lighthouses, dramatic bluffs and windswept dunes complete the alluring picture that keeps tourists coming
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during a ceremony at the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. Tesla priced its secondary common stock offering at $767 a share, raising more than $2 billion,
Squaredpixels | Getty Images It’s the bane of some older Americans. Once they hit a certain age, the government makes them take money out of their retirement accounts, even if they don’t need the cash. That is changing, albeit slowly. The recently passed Secure Act raises the age for when those required minimum withdrawals must
A interview and Q&A with billionaire debt investor and founder of Oaktree Capital Management, Howard Marks. In this interview Howard discusses how he got interested in finance and why he started Oaktree. Howard also talks about his views on the market and the role of risk in investing. 📚 Books by Howard Marks and his
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei reports 4,823 new cases China’s Hubei province reported an additional 116 deaths and 4,823 new confirmed cases as of the end of Feb. 13. Of the new cases, the government said that 3,095 were “clinically
A screen displays the transaction volume of the 24-hour Alibaba Singles’ Day global shopping festival at the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, November 12, 2019. Reuters China’s Alibaba beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly results on Thursday, driven by record sales during its annual Singles’ Day shopping blitz and demand for its cloud computing business. The e-commerce
People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Roku – Shares of the streaming company jumped 5% in extended
Tesla shares slid after the electric automaker said it plans a $2 billion common stock offering, just two weeks after CEO Elon Musk said the company would not take advantage of its surging stock to raise more capital. Musk himself will buy as much as $10 million of stock in this offering, while Tesla board member Larry Ellison
Tetra Images | Getty Images In a world where much of consumer banking has gone high-tech, the most costly scams involve an old-school tool: checks. At about $2,000 a pop, fake-check scams cheated consumers out of more than $28 million in 2019, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That per-instance amount is more than six
Medical staff check a patient’s condition at a temporary hospital converted from “Wuhan Livingroom” in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Feb. 10, 2020. Xiong Qi | Xinhua | Getty Images Small businesses in New York’s Chinatown are losing customers over “unfounded” coronavirus fears, the city’s small business chief told CNBC on Thursday. “Business owners are
Foreign tourists walk in the arrivals area at Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images Airbnb is suspending bookings in Beijing until May as the rapid spread of coronavirus hands the home-sharing giant a new kind of challenge. The number of documented cases of coronavirus jumped by
Kraft and Heinz products Scott Olson | Getty Images Kraft Heinz said Thursday it would be pushing back the unveiling of its turnaround plan from March to May. The announcement came as the company saw its sales decline in the fourth quarter, despite higher prices. Net sales fell 5.1% to $6.54 billion, missing Wall Street’s
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, August 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:32 am: Alibaba slides 2% despite strong results Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba slid 2.4% in Thursday’s premarket trading despite better-than-expected results. For the third quarter the company
A pedestrian walks past a stock ticker at a Fidelity Investments office in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters Thanks to record-breaking markets and more retirement savings, there are a record number of 401(k) and IRA millionaires in the United States. Fidelity has released its quarterly analysis of retirement trends, which has become increasingly relevant
St. Clare’s Hospital was everything to Jerry and Kathy Adach. They married after meeting at the Schenectady, New York area hospital, where both worked, in the early ’80s. Their two daughters were born there. The couple, who devoted a combined 59 years of service to the facility, had expected to retire with a good pension
As taxpayers roll into the second tax-filing season under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, one question remains: “Will I come out ahead in 2019?” The IRS began accepting 2019 tax returns on Jan. 27 and anticipates it will receive more than 150 million individual returns this year. Thus far, the agency has delivered 4.3
MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren. Getty Images MGM Resorts International chairman and CEO Jim Murren has told the company’s board that he is stepping down, prior to his contract ending, the company announced Wednesday. He will serve in his role until a successor is appointed, it said. Murren has been CEO since
PepsiCo on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations. Shares of the company rose less than 1% in premarket trading. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share: $1.45, adjusted, vs. $1.44 expected Revenue: $20.67 billion, vs.
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