Month: February 2021

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wearing his usual leather jacket. Getty Nvidia beat elevated analyst expectations for both earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, which ended in December. Nvidia stock rose under 2% in extended trading. Here’s how Nvidia did in the quarter ending in December: Earnings: $3.10 per share, adjusted,
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For “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary, making videos on Cameo is a lucrative side hustle. “People ask me all the time about Cameo. It’s my side hustle,” O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETFs, tells CNBC Make It. On Cameo, customers can pay for personalized video shout-outs from thousands of celebrities, from Carole Baskin from Netflix’s “Tiger
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Kathy Kraninger, former president Donald Trump’s appointee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images “Big deal” Both are a type of qualified mortgage, a category that carries legal protections for lenders from consumer lawsuits. That may happen, for example, if borrowers can’t make monthly payments and lose their homes to
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MoMo Productions | Getty Images Millions of self-employed and gig workers got good news this week. The Biden administration on Monday changed how the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program calculates forgivable loans for the smallest firms and sole proprietors. But there’s a catch. The updated formula — which will likely lead to larger loan
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Touch screen, fingerprint scanner, biometric identity of a woman’s hand in a blurred background . getty There’s a new wave of class action lawsuits, and biometric data privacy is the target. Biometric technology is the engine that powers things like the touch ID or facial recognition software on your cellphone, your fingerprint scans at the
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A healthcare worker holds vials containing doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus as South Africa proceeds with its inoculation campaign at the Klerksdorp Hospital on February 18, 2021. Phill Magakoe | AFP | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration’s staff endorsed Johnson & Johnson‘s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use,
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Shoppers wearing protective masks wait in line to enter a Lowe’s Cos. store in San Bruno, California, U.S., on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lowe’s said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter same-store sales climbed 28.1%, as consumers continued to spend money on home projects during the pandemic. That’s higher
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Mike S. Shapiro, Chairman HOM Real Estate Group, Inc., Co-Founder and Managing Director Plunk, Forbes Author, Speaker, Coach and Investor. getty If you’re a real estate investor or homeowner, are you curious about how the ups and downs of the stock market’s major indices are reflected in residential real estate markets? After spending more than
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” “we got to do a better job there” when it comes to delivering Covid vaccines to underserved communities.  “People of color are twice as likely to get infected and suffer complications and half as likely to get vaccinated,” said Lamont during a Tuesday
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Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images Bitcoin’s price descended further on Tuesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning about the cryptocurrency. The world’s most valuable digital coin plunged 16% in the last 24 hours, sinking below $50,000 to trade as low as $45,389 at 4:10 a.m. ET, according to data from
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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at the U.S. District Court House inside Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in San Jose, California. Yichuan Cao | NurPhoto | Getty Images The mystery of what happened to critical evidence proving Theranos’ blood-testing technology didn’t work deepened
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