Consumer spending plunged by a record 16.4% in April, but one category saw a bounce: nonstore retailers. Included in this category, which saw an 8.4% month-over-month increase, is online shopping. With much of the country under shelter-in-place orders during April, consumers increasingly turned towards e-commerce giants like Amazon for their shopping needs. As the pandemic
Month: May 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump’s name appears on the coronavirus economic assistance checks that were sent to citizens across the country April 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News that the U.S. government has deployed millions of stimulus checks for up to $1,200 per individual has made headlines. But still many individuals
Growing up, Brett Kenzy didn’t like working on his family’s cattle ranch farm in Gregory, South Dakota, about 160 miles west of Sioux Falls. “I hated it. I resented that I had to work all the time,” Kenzy, now 48, tells CNBC Make It. But Kenzy’s father, Ralph, a third generation cattle rancher, always told
Public pensions just reported their worst quarterly investment performance in over a decade. Thanks … [+] to secrecy agreements, reporting delays and valuation wiggle-room granted to hedge funds, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital and other private asset managers, the full extent of public pension losses has not been disclosed to pension stakeholders. Getty
One Hundred Dollar Bill With Medical Face Mask on George Washington. Getty As Congress responds to the economic recession, job creation will be high on its list of priorities, and one option for encouraging innovation and job growth is to dust off the research credit and better align it with the policies it’s meant to promote. Congress has
A pop of color with SMEG appliances. Photo courtesy of Getty Images According to retail intelligence company Stackline, refrigerator sales in the United States are one of the top 50 growing categories during the coronavirus, up +160%. Sales at SMEG, an international kitchen appliance company known for the iconic design of their retro FAB refrigerator collection, are
J.C. Penney is planning to file for bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter tell CNBC. Its advisors are currently working on a bankruptcy filing that could come early Friday morning, they said. They cautioned there is still a chance that final negotiations between the retailer and its lenders spill into the weekend and delay the
An employee tends to marijuana plants at the Aurora Cannabis Inc. facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Jason Franson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Aurora Cannabis posted a smaller loss compared with the prior quarter as customers in the United States and Canada stockpiled cannabis ahead of lockdowns, sending its U.S.-listed
U.S. government debt yields moved lower Friday as investors awaited a host of fresh economic data. At around 4:45 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at 0.6153% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond declined to 1.2802%. Yields move inversely to prices. Nervous investors are keeping a close
Nearly 36.5 million people have filed unemployment claims in the past two months as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with 2.981 million of those claims being filed for the week ending May 9. Though the pandemic has undoubtedly impacted millions of Americans, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that women are disproportionately feeling the
Stanley Druckenmiller Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller told the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday that stock market is historically overvalued. “The risk-reward for equity is maybe as bad as I’ve seen it in my career,” Druckemiller said, according to the organization’s Twitter account. “The wild card here is the
A store in Arlington, Virginia, remained temporarily closed on May 14, 2020. Another 3 million people filed initial unemployment claims last week on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Department of Labor. Olvier Douliery-AFP/Getty Images States paid a record $48 billion in unemployment benefits last month as the coronavirus pandemic caused millions of Americans
Restauranteur Geoff Tracy sits for a photograph at Chef Geoff’s restaurant in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Images Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Many business owners who want to cash out and retire are worried they won’t be able to do that for years because of Covid-19. Nothing could be
Basement of a bank full of banknotes, at the time of the Mark devaluation, during the economic … [+] crisis, Weimar Republic (Germany), 1923. (Photo by Albert Harlingue/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) Roger Viollet via Getty Images In the news today: “Biden Taps Top Bernie Allies to Craft Economic Agenda,” Washington Free Beacon. “The Biden
PHILADELPHIA – MAY 8: Economic stimulus checks are prepared for printing at the Philadelphia … [+] Financial Center May 8, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One hundred and thirty million households are eligible to receive a tax rebate check under the $168 billion economic stimulus plan. (Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images) Getty Images J. Russell George,
The Koto Piha is a 4 bedroom/3 bath home, 1950 square feet. It has two courtyards that connects the … [+] residents with the outdoors. Rendering courtesy of Plant Prefab Plant Prefab, a very energy efficient prefab builder in CA has teamed up with Koto from the United Kingdom to design and build modular homes
This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: More than 4.4 million Global deaths: 302,025 Most cases reported: United States (over 1.4 million), Russia (252,245), United Kingdom (234,439), Spain (229,540), Italy (223,096) The data above was compiled by
A person walks at the Wall Street subway stop in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images U.S. stock futures were flat on Thursday night following a sharp rally during the regular session as investors awaited several key data sets. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were just below the flatline while S&P 500
With almost 37 million Americans out of work due to coronavirus shutdowns, Democratic lawmakers are proposing a second round of stimulus checks to provide some financial relief, potentially worth more than the first round. Most eligible Americans have by now received their check, called economic impact payments, though some are still being mailed to those
Retail investors are trading more. The move to $0 commissions is likely a major factor. But there are more things occurring to encourage retail trading, including stay-at-home orders and market volatility. Add it all up and you get electronic brokers reporting trading volumes that are up 100% year over year. In the first quarter alone,
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