This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 9:05 am: South Korea reports 334 more cases South Korea confirmed a surge of 334 more cases on Thursday morning, bringing the country’s total to 1,595. There were a total of 12 deaths as of Thursday, but no
Month: February 2020
A view of atmosphere at the launch of SmileDirectClub’s Smile Kit at Macy’s Roosevelt Field Mall on June 30, 2018 in Garden City, New York. Gary Gershoff | Getty Images SmileDirectClub said on Tuesday it is looking at a “controlled growth” in 2020 after the online dental company posted a bigger-than-expected loss as it spent
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures traded slightly lower on Wednesday night after Microsoft warned it will not meet its revenue guidance for a key business segment, citing the recent global coronavirus outbreak. President Donald Trump is also scheduled to hold a news
Scott Minerd, founding managing partner at Guggenheim, at WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Guggenheim Partners Global CIO Scott Minerd said Wednesday that stocks could have further to fall as the markets came to grips with the economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak. Minerd, appearing on CNBC’s “Closing Bell,”
In the face of a global health emergency, thousands of U.S. college students studying abroad are scrambling. As the coronavirus spreads through northern Italy, some schools, including Syracuse University and New York University, announced they were closing their campuses in Florence immediately. “We have urged students to leave Florence for this period,“ NYU Spokesman John
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total confirmed cases: More than 81,000Total deaths: At least 2,764 8:46 a.m.: Trump announces news conference with CDC officials President Donald Trump revealed in a tweet Wednesday that he will hold a news conference at the White House
Top management at global companies are clueless on the full extent of the coronavirus impact and how it will affect their companies in the coming months, a portfolio manager told CNBC Wednesday. Many firms have highlighted that their operations will suffer as a result of the virus and some have taken precautionary measures. But Pieter
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. 7:20 am: Disney shares fall 2% as CEO Bob Iger steps down, effective immediately Shares of Disney fell more than 2% during Wednesday’s premarket trading after the company said that CEO
Chamath Palihapitiya Heidi Gutman | CNBC Billionaires should be grateful for their good fortune and stop being so sensitive to public criticism and name-calling by politicians, tech billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said Wednesday. In a heated billionaire-versus-billionaire debate with former hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, Palihapitiya said that being demonized or labeled “out of touch” is a
Virgin Galactic co-founder Sir Richard Branson, CEO George Whitesides and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya pose together outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of Virgin Galactic (SPCE) trading in New York, U.S., October 28, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya thinks the recent rally by Wall Street’s favorite
MartinPrescott When market volatility is high, financial advisors often suggest investors review — and possibly re-balance — their portfolios rather than make an emotional or impulsive move. Yet as the stock market plunged at the beginning of this week, trading activity in 401(k) plans skyrocketed. And, data show that many investors moved money out of
When most 15-year-olds are out at the movies, playing video games or listening to music, Mikaila Ulmer of Austin is focusing on building her empire. Mikaila is the CEO of Me & the Bees Lemonade, a business she started at age 4 after her family encouraged her to enter a local youth business competition. While
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, executive chairman of Orascom Telecom. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disruptions caused by the coronavirus will cause the world’s economy to shrink if the outbreak continues, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said this week. “If this is not contained within the next few months, we will see a big shrinking
People walk outside a Lowe’s store in East Peoria, Ill. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lowe’s reported mixed fourth-quarter results Wednesday, as sales growth at its stores open at least a year were weaker than expected. Shares were down about 1% in premarket trading. Here’s what Lowe’s reported compared with what Wall Street
Stock futures were up just slightly in overnight trading after stocks’ worst two-day rout in more than four years amid heightened concern the coronavirus will upend global economic growth. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 96 points, while the S&P 500 futures were up 0.2%. To be sure, futures trading this early may
Baseball, known locally as yakyuu (or literally “field ball”), is a national phenomenon in Japan. Masaoka Shiki, one of Japan’s four great haiku masters, wrote several poems praising it. Osaka’s most infamous urban legend centers around it. It’s even more popular than the nation’s native sumo. According to data published by Japan’s Central Research Services
Larry Kudlow, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, speaks during a television interview at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Alex Edelman | Bloomberg | Getty Images National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said the coronavirus-triggered selloff has created a buying opportunity for long-term investors. “The virus story
Kenya Forrest, Jr., 20, says sneaker trading got him interested in learning to trade stock options. Source: Kenya Forrest, Jr. Formal, part-time jobs for kids are so last century — the percentage of teens with jobs peaked 40 years ago — it’s all about side hustles now. Young people may go into business because they
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:15 am: Asia stocks tumble Asia stocks fell in early trading, as Wall Street saw another rout overnight. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.07% in early trade after dropping more than 3% on Tuesday. The Topix index also saw a 1.07%
Shares of Mastercard fell on Monday after the credit card company issued a warning that the fast-spreading coronavirus could hurt its revenue this year. “Cross-border travel, and to a lesser extent cross-border e-commerce growth, is being impacted by the Coronavirus,” the company said in a statement on Monday after the bell. The company said its
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