Tiffany & Co. announced the debut of its first-ever men’s engagement ring. Source: Tiffany PR He said “yes.” Tiffany & Co. announced Friday the debut of its first-ever men’s engagement ring, as it looks to tap into a new market for its high-end jewelry amid a rise in same-sex marriages globally and gender-fluid fashion trends.
Month: April 2021
In this article QSR-CA Jose Cil, CEO of Restaurant Brands International, speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, November 6, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Restaurant Brands International on Friday reported quarterly earnings that topped Wall Street’s expectations as its systemwide sales surpassed 2019 levels. Shares of the company
Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Amazon — The e-commerce giant saw its shares gain 1% in midday trading after it reported a record first-quarter profit. The Seattle-based firm said profits more than tripled to $8.1 billion and January-to-March sales soared 44% to $108 billion. The results
The list of places that’s welcoming vaccinated people is growing by the week. Proof of vaccines is easing travel restrictions to some places, and is the only way travelers can gain entrance to others. Yet from health forms to testing protocols, travel remains complicated even for the immunized. Rules differ from one country to the
Warren Buffett (L), CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger attend the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Warren Buffett will kick off Berkshire Hathaway‘s annual shareholder meeting this Saturday riding high, with shares of the conglomerate at a record and its
PeopleImages | E+ | Getty Images If you are in the market for a new house, you may be overlooking one key to your success: your credit score. That three-digit number has a direct impact on your ability to get a mortgage and what interest rate you will pay. Mortgage rates are at two-month lows,
President Joe Biden speaks during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Some business owners may have breathed a sigh of relief when the White House released details of President Joe Biden’s tax plan. That’s because he indicated family owned businesses and farms
By Julia Yarbough, Next Avenue Miami-Dade (Fla.) Fire Rescue firefighter and paramedic James Weldon, 55, recalls the myriad of emotions pumping through him during a routine rescue call when he was a rookie 17 years ago. Not because of the severity of the medical treatment, but for the words the female patient in her 80s hurled his
Last July I wrote an article about what to do about the proposed tax hikes if there were a blue wave and the Democrats were to take over the presidency, House and Senate in the November 2020 elections. While it wasn’t exactly a blue wave, Joe Biden was elected president and the Democrats have narrow
Analytics firm Placer.ai reported that traffic in a 52-mall sample was up 86 percent over March, 2020. And while that still lags March 2019, mall owners believe we are in rebound mode. What is unknown is how long the pent-up demand will last. And as my colleague Pam Danziger recently reported, a survey of 1,000+
A man with his bicycle on a street in the old quarters of New Delhi on April 19, 2021, as India’s capital will impose a week-long lockdown from tonight, officials said, while the megacity struggles to contain a huge surge in Covid-19 cases with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen supplies low. Sajjad Hussain
In this article F Getty Images DETROIT – Ford Motor easily beat Wall Street’s expectations for the first quarter despite an ongoing global semiconductor chip shortage causing low inventories and factory closures. So why are shares of the automaker down by as much as 10.4% during intraday trading Thursday? The negative reaction by investors is
In this article DARK-GB A Darktrace cybersecurity software demonstration shows how a global problem can start with just one employee’s work station. Michael S. Williamson | The Washington Post | Getty Images LONDON — British cybersecurity start-up Darktrace saw its shares surge as much as 43% in its highly-anticipated London debut Friday. The company priced
President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress on April 28, 2021. Melina Mara | Reuters President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan for higher taxes on inherited homes to help fund the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. The proposal would tax inherited property gains at death, targeting generational wealth transfers. But financial experts
This episode of What’s Ahead points out how the tax proposals President Biden outlined in his national address will hurt, not help, the economy. If enacted, they will turn into political poison for the Democrats. A doubling of the capital gains levy will shrink Uncle Sam’s revenue, as people will be more inclined to hold
When a mortgage borrower stops paying its loan and the lender eventually decides to foreclose, the lender first needs to accelerate the loan. In other words, the lender needs to tell the borrower that the loan is in default and the borrower must repay it all now. If the borrower doesn’t do that, then eventually
In this article F CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday endorsed Ford Motor as having the best odds of staging the biggest rally now through early February. As athletes and celebrities in CNBC’s annual Stock Draft picked recovery favorites earlier Tuesday, Cramer, who is not a participant, said he backs the traditional automaker to make significant
In this article AMZN Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon Katherine Taylor | Reuters Amazon is set to report first quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $9.54 per share, according to Refinitiv Revenue: $104.47 billion, according to Refinitiv Few companies have benefited from the pandemic-fueled surge of online shopping as
In this article @ND.1 @DJ.1 @SP.1 FAANG stocks displayed at the Nasdaq. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes dipped at the start of the overnight session Thursday evening as investors pored over a flurry of earnings results and a robust profit beat from e-commerce giant Amazon. Contracts tied
In this article PLTR Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir arrives ahead of a “Tech For Good” meetup at Hotel Marigny in Paris on May 15, 2019, held to discuss good conduct for technology giants. Bertrand Guay | AFP | Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp earned compensation worth about $1.1 billion in 2020, primarily through
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