Month: December 2020

Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to shift its focus away from Silicon Valley, announcing Tuesday that it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, California, to Houston, Texas. “HPE’s largest U.S. employment hub, Houston is an attractive market to
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It may be a good time to lock in market gains for the year. Credit Suisse’s Jonathan Golub believes the latest all-time highs will run into trouble this month. “If you’re somebody who just came into a boatload of money … perhaps [wait] until after inauguration,” the firm’s chief U.S. equity strategist told CNBC’s “Trading
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For Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, his interest in finance began at a young age. When he was growing up, Dimon’s father, Theodore Dimon, and his paternal grandfather, Panos Papademetriou, worked as stock brokers at Shearson, Hammill & Co. “It starts with my grandfather,” Dimon said on the “Coffee with The Greats” podcast
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Salesforce shares moved 4% lower in extended trading on Tuesday after the enterprise software maker reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.15 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 75 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $5.42 billion, vs. $5.25 billion as expected by
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U.S. stock futures fell in overnight trading on Tuesday, despite recent strength that has brought the major averages to record highs. Dow futures fell about 120 points. S&P 500 futures fell 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures lost 0.1%. Dow component Salesforce announced it is acquiring messaging platform Slack for $27.7 billion after the bell on
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Many charities have seen a surge in donations since the coronavirus crisis began. Now, on Giving Tuesday, pandemic-related nonprofits could get an unprecedented extra bump. Charitable donations generally get a big boost on “Giving Tuesday,” a single day specifically focused on charity in the shopping-heavy week after Thanksgiving. Last year, the #GivingTuesday effort raised nearly $2
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Overdraft fees are at all-time highs amid the pandemic. Ivan-balvan | iStock | Getty Images When the coronavirus pandemic brought American life to a halt in mid-March, Erin Madden was furloughed from her job as a bartender at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California. Difficulty finding new work and a delay in her unemployment benefits caused
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Grover Cleveland at Desk (Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Corbis/VCG via Getty Images No matter how you voted in the presidential election, Grover Cleveland should be your guy this month. If you’re a disappointed Trump supporter, take solace in Cleveland’s singular achievement: He is the only American president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. We tend to think
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about applying for spousal benefits only while delaying retirement benefits, when someone can become eligible for retirement benefits and how filing for widow’s benefits at 60 affects the amount of the benefit. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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