The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule stand upright on the launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Demo-2 launch. SpaceX raised well over the $500 million it was seeking in its most recent funding round, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal. Elon Musk’s space company on Tuesday filed
Month: May 2020
Audrey Saracco / EyeEm Millions of $1,200 stimulus payments have been sent out to Americans. But some recipients of Social Security or other government benefits are still asking, “Where is my money?” The stimulus checks were authorized by Congress as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act aimed at helping to reinvigorate the U.S. economy
Small caps just had a big week. The Russell 2000 index climbed almost 8% last week as the health-care-heavy group caught a bounce from positive news on the biotech front regarding a possible coronavirus vaccine. The S&P 500 rose just over 3% in the same time frame. And the group’s exposure to the health-care space isn’t
A Social Security bridge payment can significantly boost your lifetime retirement income. Getty Older workers who are approaching retirement face a series of complex decisions that come with high stakes. One particularly critical decision is when to start your Social Security benefits. It’s worth your time to develop a strategy for optimizing your Social Security
Colored pencil and acrylic illustration of Government Spending blowing the roof off a capital … [+] building. Check out my “Social Issues” light box for more. Getty The government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive increase in public debt. Reducing this debt will present many challenges, including a greater tax burden
New York City doesn’t think property owners should enforce the personal guaranties that often backstop commercial leases signed by small business corporations or limited liability companies. So today the city enacted a law against it, at least in cases where the tenant’s business had to shut down because of today’s pandemic. The law applies through
Katie Miller, press secretary for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence , helps prepare for the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 10, 2020. Picture taken March 10, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Vice President Mike Pence‘s press secretary, Katie Miller, returned to work on Tuesday, nearly three weeks
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 20, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. 8 am: U.S. oil on track for best month ever West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. oil benchmark, is on track for its
Jay Leno remembers watching Elon Musk unveiling Tesla’s new Cybertruck, which set the auto world abuzz, on television in November. But apparently there’s nothing like seeing Tesla’s first all-electric pickup with his own eyes. “I saw it on TV … but nothing strikes you until you see it in person,” Leno says in a new
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for Demo-2 inside the company’s hangar at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX SpaceX is set for its most important milestone yet, in a launch that may well define the future of the U.S. space program. Elon Musk’s company plans to launch a pair of NASA astronauts on Wednesday — the
This year, students may need extra help to make college a reality. Amid the coronavirus crisis and sky-high unemployment rates, less than half of families feel confident in their ability to meet the costs of higher education, according to education lender Sallie Mae. About 69% of parents and 55% of students entering college in the
As more businesses reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, dental practices are considering enhanced measures to clean their facilities and equipment, as well as protect their patients and staff. One of these tactics involves the use of ultraviolet light to sanitize the air, surfaces and equipment in dental offices. Disinfecting with UV light products is widely
Randy Bish Effective January 1, 2020, we have a radically different law governing Inherited IRAs and retirement plans than we had in the past. The stock market seems particularly jittery and that may continue for a long time. Your own finances and family situation could change significantly between the time you draft your wills, trusts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 28: Deanna Sison takes a break from preparing preordered lunches to check … [+] the status of her federal small business loan application at Little Skillet restaurant in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Sison is struggling to keep her restaurants after federal funds made available to assist
First-time buyers are going to need more support in the months and years ahead to help them onto the … [+] ladder. Getty The impact of COVID-19 on the housing market as a whole, and on the buying power of first-time buyers specifically, cannot be understated. Whilst the reopening of the property industry two weeks
Never heard of “travel bubbles” or “air bridges”? Read on because what you learn just might save your summer vacation now that we are in the coronavirus era. With little clarity on when the pandemic might end, many Europeans have already given up on the idea of a summer getaway. But some countries, desperate to salvage this
Invesco’s Kristina Hooper warns the coronavirus is not the biggest threat to the market. She sees flaring U.S.-China trade tensions potentially doing the most harm to stocks. “The pandemic has largely been isolated and neutralized because of all the monetary policy support that the Fed has provided,” she told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday. “That
We live in an increasingly stressful world, which is why it has never been more important to foster emotional and mental resiliency in our children. Not only are mentally strong kids better prepared to tackle future problems on their own, but studies have found that they’re also more likely to be engaged in school and
Aaron “Alpha.M” Marino says the Covid-19 pandemic has hit Youtube sponsorship deals hard, but “You need to be flexible enough to change and adapt in this situation. You are fighting for your business’s life and your employees as well.” Aaron “Alpha.M” Marino Aaron “Alpha.M” Marino is no stranger to adversity, and like many other small
null Getty For many older adults today, especially those aging solo, there is a stage of life in which they feel capable of continuing to live on their own, completely independent. In urban areas that means being able to navigate public transportation, walk comfortably and confidently for several blocks, and shop for the necessities of
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