Month: February 2021

Reopening indoor dining is “an extraordinarily reckless and premature decision” as new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus spread in the U.S., virologist Angela Rasmussen told CNBC Friday. Indoor dining resumed at a limited capacity in New York and Portland, Oregon, on Friday. “While I appreciate the economic importance of opening businesses back up and
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An employee cleans the grounds behind the closed gates of Disneyland Park on the first day of the closure of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks, in Anaheim, California, on March 14, 2020. DAVID MCNEW | AFP | Getty Images Disney took another financial hit during its fiscal first-quarter, as restrictions on attendance at its
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Stimulus checks printed at the Philadelphia Financial Center in Philadelphia. Jeff Fusco | Getty Images As a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package comes together on Capitol Hill, millions of additional direct payments to Americans could be in the works. Legislation under discussion includes $1,400 stimulus checks that could bring the total direct payments sent to
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The IRS is accepting 2020 tax returns starting February 12, 2021. getty The Internal Revenue Service says taxpayers should expect to face limited face-to-face operations, heavy call volume, and paper-processing delays as it opens today for tax season 2021, accepting tax returns for tax year 2020. And then there’s all the pandemic-related tax law changes
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Even after being fully inoculated against Covid, some public-health precautions are still needed until more data on the vaccines can be collected, Dr. Kavita Patel told CNBC on Friday. It’s well understood the two-shot vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death from Covid-19, Patel said in a “Squawk
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By Margie Zable Fisher, Next Avenue Glen Muñoz, podcast producer Glen Muñoz Almost every day since the outbreak of the coronavirus, we’ve heard stories about businesses shutting down. Yet new businesses have also been launched during the pandemic at the fastest rate in over a decade, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some of these new
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Travel concept. Blue and red passports background. 3d illustration getty In some circles 2020 became the year of the second passport. For a cool THB 10 million (about $334,000), Thailand is doling out residency to investors willing to build residential real estate. St. Kitts and Nevis slashed the cost of its golden visa by $45,000
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