Month: May 2020

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban told CNBC on Thursday that he believes the stock market is overvalued, citing the uncertainty around consumer spending due to the coronavirus pandemic.  “I think it’s almost impossible to predict where consumer and corporate demand is going to come from,” he said on “Closing Bell.” ”And because of that, it’s hard to create a valuation
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Federal prosecutors are coming down hard on suspected abuse of the Paycheck Protection Program. Getty The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), provided under the CARES Act, has made available $659 billion in federal crisis aid for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the necessary state shutdown measures. Offering potentially forgivable loans covering up
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On Friday the 13th this past March, I was laid off from my full-time associate editor job at a Manhattan-based trade publication. I wasn’t surprised, but I was scared. After getting off the video call with my boss, I received the official termination letter. “Please see attached,” the email read. “Wishing you only good fortune.” “It
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that investors can find buying opportunities in the market after Wall Street recorded multiple days of losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 516 points, or 2.17%, to 23,247.97 for its third-straight negative trading session. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite traded 1.7% and 1.55% lower, respectively, for
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Xavier Bonghi In today’s environment, it’s just about unimaginable that someone would turn down a $40,000 forgivable loan. Benjamin Brandt, a certified financial planner and president of Capital City Wealth Management in Bismarck, North Dakota, did just that. He initially applied for the Paycheck Protection Program — a forgivable loan program that’s overseen by Treasury
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Under ordinary circumstances, the opportunity to make changes to workplace health plans and flexible spending accounts happens only once a year. However, new guidelines from the IRS allow workers to revisit those elections now in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “I cannot think of a time when the IRS has been this flexible,” said David Speier, managing
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Russia has said an antiviral drug it’s funding has shown promising results in early clinical trials and has called for a global, collaborative approach to finding an effective treatment for the coronavirus. Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (RDIF) has been funding Russian trials of the drug favipiravir, an anti-influenza drug first developed in Japan under the
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Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco Systems, speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Cisco shares rose as much as 4% and later lost some of their gains in extended  trading Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter earnings. Revenue dropped 8% from last year’s quarter, steeper than
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