Month: May 2020

New Jersey restaurant owner Chris Clayton told CNBC on Friday that giving businesses the green light to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic does not guarantee their survival.  “Open is a four-letter word,” Clayton said on “Squawk Alley.” ”Just being open doesn’t mean that you’re not going to go under. You need to be open enough, especially for
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Getty Why does the SBA require that a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) borrower use 75% of the PPP proceeds on “payroll costs”?  It’s a curious question.  It’s particularly curious given that the CARES Act itself does not require this.  In fact, the CARES Act actually says that a borrower can spend the loan proceeds on other costs—and even mandates forgiveness for
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Today’s low mortgage rates are helping home buyers, but they might also lead to future inventory … [+] shortages and affordability challenges. Getty In a coronavirus-created environment of severe inventory shortages and rising prices, home shoppers do have one advantage in the form of extremely low interest rates. Yet, while propitious today, the latter bear
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A pack of Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate medication is held up on March 26. John Phillips | Getty Images Hospitalized Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug President Donald Trump says he’s taking to prevent the coronavirus, had a higher risk of death than those who didn’t take it, according to a study published Friday in The
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Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the company’s event at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. The stock fell over 1% in after-hours trading
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Pedestrians walk past a J.P. Morgan Chase bank branch. Alex Tsai | SOPA Images | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The beaten-down banking sector will remain under pressure through 2025 even as the economy recovers, the International Monetary Fund said Friday.  In its latest “Global Financial Stability Report,” the IMF found banks across nine advanced economies will struggle
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PuroClean restoration specialists do deep Covid-19 cleaning for the Barlett Fire department in Tennessee. Steve White, the company’s president and COO, instituted protocols from day one to ensure business operations continue in case of any unforeseen disaster, something he learned as a former U.S. Army infantry officer. PuroClean If you want to see how an
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TOPLINE China pledged on Friday to uphold its commitments under the phase one trade deal with the U.S., including purchasing of American goods like soybeans and pork, as tensions between the world’s two largest economies flare up once again. Beijing promised to implement the phase one deal despite renewed tensions with Washington. Xu Congjun/VCG via
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Photo: Getty There is a metric in apartment investing known as cash-on-cash return. It represents the power of multiplying money. Consistent investment in strong performing assets over long periods of time yields the greatest return, so knowing how to calculate that return is essential. For many, it’s not the acquiring of money that’s the issue.
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Visitors browse at the display of Expedia during the International Tourism Trade Fair in Berlin. Fabrizio Bensch | Retuers Expedia reported its first quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, continuing to show the financial devastation the coronavirus is having on the travel industry.   Executives said during the company’s earnings call that Expedia was seeing
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