Dr. Anthony Fauci and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates talk regularly these days, and as you would imagine, they mostly talk about ending the pandemic. More specifically, right now, “we’re talking a lot about these variants and what that will do,” Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1.75 billion to the fight against Covid-19, told
Month: February 2021
Virgin Galactic pilots walk to the company’s SpaceShipTwo Unity spacecraft, attached to the jet carrier aircraft Eve. Virgin Galactic Shares of Virgin Galactic climbed as a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the company’s next spaceflight test is on track to launch as early as Saturday. An FAA notice posted on Thursday said
Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Investors poured record amounts of money last year into funds that aim to help the environment and promote social good, more than doubling the prior’s year’s take. Funds that use so-called ESG principles may, for example, invest in energy firms that aren’t reliant on fossil fuels or in companies
Courtney Senechal, RN, prepares to give the second Moderna vaccine shot for Covid-19, at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center in Boston on Jan. 19, 2021. Jonathan Wiggs | Boston Globe | Getty Images Barely more than one in five small business owners (22%) will require their employees to get Covid-19 vaccines when they become
Did you take a break from required minimum distributions (RMDs) in 2020? Thanks to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which suspended RMDs for 2020, you did not have to take RMDs from your traditional IRAs (individual retirement accounts) and other tax-deferred accounts last year. (Roth IRAs do not require RMDs during
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about how continuing income can potentially increase benefit rates, whether delaying the last six months before turning 70 would really be worth it and what happens to Social Security disability benefits approaching full retirement age. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the
Managing Partner, Evergreen Property Partners. Top 10 Family Office RE Professional, Top 30 Family Office RE Investor, Harvard Graduate. getty Multifamily properties have long been a favorite investment of family offices. Though multifamily properties have been generally doing quite well during the pandemic, as I have mentioned in other articles I’ve written, a lot of that
Ron Votral receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a drive-through vaccination site in Robstown, Texas, February 9, 2021. Go Nakamura | Reuters LONDON — A variant of the coronavirus that first emerged in the U.K., and has since been identified in over 50 countries, could become the dominant form of the virus
Products are displayed in an Under Armour store in New York City, November 4, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Under Armour on Wednesday reported a surprise profit for the holiday quarter as sales were boosted by strong digital growth. The sneaker maker also offered an initial outlook for 2021. It expects sales to rise in
The red hot SPAC market is getting even hotter in 2021, raising concerns about rampant speculation detached from reason that could leave retail investors fresh off the GameStop bust holding the bag. Not only are special purpose acquisition companies raising a record level of capital — more than $30 billion so far for its biggest
Whitney Wolfe Herd speaks onstage during the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference at Monarch Beach Resort on November 13, 2017 in Dana Point, California. Joe Scarnici | Getty Images Entertainment When 31-year-old Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd takes her company public this week, she will be noted not only for her youth but
Getting America’s workforce vaccinated will go a long way toward helping the country reach herd immunity. Instacart, Target, Trader Joe’s, McDonald’s and Dollar General are among a growing list of companies giving workers time off and extra money to get vaccinated for Covid-19. Others, including Amazon, Uber and DoorDash, are going a step further by lobbying state officials to secure
getty It is not a surprise — not to me, anyway — that the “Covid relief” bill, or, strictly speaking the first half of such, released by the House yesterday, to be passed under the terms of reconciliation, includes substantial provisions related to multi-employer pensions. I did, after all, predict as much as soon as
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – FEB. 8: Minerva Pacheco (center) and her children Brian Martinez Pacheco, 7 … [+] (left) Daniel Martinez Pacheco, 8, (right), and daughter Iris Martinez Pacheco, 11, at their home. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images The plan to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC)
CEO & Owner of All Storage and commercial real estate investor and developer, specializing in retail, office space and senior housing. getty Even if you’re new to real estate investing, you’ve probably seen the success stories touted on social media. Real estate entrepreneurs with private jets boasting a glamorous lifestyle and “guaranteed returns.” Newbie investors extolling the
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that the United States should fund the development of a chipmaking compound in efforts to address both the nation’s high unemployment rate and a chip shortage that’s affecting American businesses. More and more companies, including carmakers like Ford and General Motors, have recently sounded the alarm about the global supply
A delivery truck driver unloads Coca-Cola Co. soft drinks in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coca-Cola is expected to announce its fourth-quarter earnings before the bell Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street analysts surveyed by Refinitiv are expecting: Earnings per share: 42 cents expected Revenue: $8.63
U.S. stock index futures moved higher during overnight trading on Wednesday as stocks looked to build on February’s momentum. Futures contracts tied to the Dow gained 34 points, or 0.09%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.06% and 0.07%, respectively. The move comes after the Dow advanced 63 points during regular trading hours
Although investor Kevin O’Leary says bitcoin is a “giant nothing-burger” and has compared it to gambling, he owns some, along with a few other cryptocurrencies. “I have a crypto wallet,” says O’Leary, which he created on Coinbase in 2017. At the time, “I was lecturing at Harvard Business School, and the students challenged me to
A pedestrian passes in front of a Charles Schwab Corp. bank branch in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brokerage firm Charles Schwab said Wednesday it is laying off about 200 employees from the combined Schwab-TD Ameritrade company. This is the most recent round of layoffs, following a purge of 1,000
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