The entrance to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World is seen on the first day of closure as theme parks in the Orlando area suspend operations for two weeks in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty
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Chevron warned Friday in its quarterly earnings report that results will remain depressed as long as oil prices remain low, and said that it was further cutting its 2020 capital spending plan. For the first quarter Chevron reported EPS of $1.93, which included $660 million in one-time favorable items, and $31.5 billion in revenue, helped by downstream
Empty streets in downtown Portland, Oregon, on April 22, 2020. Moriah Ratner/Bloomberg via Getty Images This is not going away anytime soon. From grocery shopping to working remotely to homeschooling kids, nearly everything in life is different. Almost all Americans are anxious about money, according to a survey from National Endowment for Financial Education. “We
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station on October 25, 2018 in Gutenberg New Jersey. Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty Images Exxon Mobil reported a loss in the first quarter as oil prices dropped to historic lows. The oil giant lost $610 million in the first quarter due to writedowns tied to
Moran Forman of Goldman Sachs, 33, in her home office in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. Source: Goldman Sachs Each weekday morning, Moran Forman wakes up in her Chelsea apartment, takes a few steps to a spare bedroom and powers up the full might of Goldman Sachs on a curved LCD screen. Forman, a
If daydreaming about scoring a windfall would help you escape the coronavirus doldrums, you might want to buy a Mega Millions ticket. The lottery game’s jackpot has reached the $200 million mark for the first time in almost three months amid slowing sales. And if all six numbers are matched in Friday night’s drawing, it
Owner Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks reacts prior to the game against the Philadelphia 76ers at the Wells Fargo Center on December 20, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mitchell Leff | Getty Images Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said Friday that small businesses should apply to multiple banks in order to boost their chances of receiving a loan
Burger poster in the city. Getty There are those who might disagree, but I don’t see anything inherently wrong with the concept of states imposing sales or gross receipts taxes on digital advertising, especially if they already tax a wide range of services. Yet that doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem. Though the concept may
Photo: Getty Money makes the world go ’round. And capitalism creates the opportunity for an individual to make large capital gains over varying rates of time. That could mean thousands of dollars in a month, in an hour of working or even without working at all — there are individuals who invest in apartments passively,
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, delivers a speech during a special address on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Bloomberg The president of the European Commission backed calls for an investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus and said China should
A United Airlines plane prepares to take off at the Benito Juarez International airport in Mexico City, on March 20, 2020. Pedro Pardo | AFP | Getty Images United Airlines Thursday posted its biggest quarterly loss since 2008 and expects to burn an average of $40 million to $45 million a day in the second quarter as
A man cleans up on the trading floor, following traders testing positive for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Traders have had to rapidly adjust their day-to-day routine as the corornavirus pandemic has forced many around the world to work
CNBC Make It is posting a new financial task to tackle each day for a month. These are all meant to be simple, time-sensitive activities to take your mind off of the news for a moment and, hopefully, put you on sturdier financial footing. This is day 23 of 30. Even in the best of times,
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk is having issues with conference calls lately. Thursday afternoon, the SpaceX CEO unexpectedly spoke up during a NASA conference call after the agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, was asked about Musk’s recent comments on the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday night, Musk,
Peathegee Inc Homeowners in New Jersey are getting a little bit of breathing room on their property taxes. Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order permitting municipalities to shift the property tax payment deadline from May 1 to June 1. The Garden State is home to the highest levies on property in the nation, with
Large companies that received money from the small business loan program are not to blame, according to former TARP watchdog Neil Barofsky. “You have to go back to the design of the program itself,” Barofsky told CNBC on Thursday. “I mean, Congress went out of its way to carve out businesses that have more than 500
Stock market virus fear or bull and bear economic crisis and sick financial health as a business … [+] recession concept or metaphor for uncertainty in the economy investing sentiment in a 3D illustration style. Getty Recessions are a normal part of the business cycle, albeit some are more severe than others. The current recession
Getty You probably already know that you can fix most tax return mistakes by filing an amended return. If IRS doesn’t correct your error or if it’s a huge mistake or if you forgot to report something important (like being married), you can amend your previously filed tax return with a federal form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return (downloads as
In the summer of 2019, I wrote a Forbes piece in which I warned about the U.S. commercial real estate bubble that was inflating and why I believed that it would end badly. Around the same time, I wrote another Forbes piece warning that there was about a two-thirds probability of a powerful recession within
The torrent of major corporate earnings results continued Thursday, with McDonald’s, CNBC parent Comcast, Twitter, and Kraft Heinz among the many companies reporting before the opening bell on Wall Street. Sales and profits have taken a beating for most corporations in the first quarter of 2020 as the initial effects of the pandemic began to drastically