People walk on their lunch break at the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on May 5, 2021. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore is introducing new differentiated Covid measures for dining in as new cases continue to rise. Only fully vaccinated individuals and people who have recovered from Covid-19
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Gojek drivers wearing protective masks wait for a customer along a road in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia’s late-stage start-ups are attracting growing interest from blank-check companies that want to take them public, a venture investor told CNBC. More than 40 SPACs
Most people know Alexandra Nicole Nolan as a national brand influencer who has been featured on Forbes, Yahoo News, Hollywood Digest, and many other notable publications for her success in the digital marketing world, but there is more to this southern boss babe than meets the eye! This week, I got the chance to chat
Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket against the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament on May 19, 2021 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. Adam Pantozzi | National Basketball Association | Getty Images NBA star Steph Curry is now setting his sights on closing the
Nikolay Storonsky, founder and CEO of Revolut, on stage at the 2019 Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images LONDON — British fintech firm Revolut said Thursday it had raised $800 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank and Tiger Global. Revolut, which
The number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. hit a grim record, as the nation simultaneously battled the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 93,331 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2020, and that represents nearly a 30% increase from the year before, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and
Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images Americans have lost nearly $500 million to Covid-related scams since the start of the pandemic, according to Federal Trade Commission data. And the agency is warning that con artists will likely try to take advantage of families who expect to get monthly payments from the child tax credit,
Money managers began moving into tech stocks as a hedge against inflation and Fed rate hikes, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. Rising raw costs led to a 5.4% increase in inflation last month, the biggest jump in consumer prices in more than a decade. That triggered concern among some investors that the Federal Reserve could
Investors may want to keep the antacid nearby. Long-term market bull Tony Dwyer sees near-term turbulence in connection with his “summer of indigestion” call. So, he’s encouraging investors to resist making any big moves right now. “We’ve had one heck of a run. It’s been an excessive run in the indices,” the Canaccord Genuity chief
In this article GO AMZN FL DKS BURL ROST TJX NKE DRI AEO TPB STZ SAM ALGT ULCC PZZA WING KSS A woman wears a face mask while shopping for a baby shower gift during the Covid-19 pandemic, at Madison’s Niche boutique in Huntington, New York on April 21, 2021. Alejandra Villa Loarca | Newsday
A pile of U.S. dollar banknotes. Chris Clor | Tetra images | Getty Images In March last year, a top venture capital firm described Covid-19 as the “black swan of 2020.” “Private financings could soften significantly, as happened in 2001 and 2009,” Sequoia Capital told portfolio company founders and CEOs in a memo reminiscent of
In this article PFE 22UA-DE Former Obama administration official Dr. Kavita Patel told CNBC on Monday she expects a Covid vaccine booster will, eventually, be authorized by U.S. regulators due to new, more transmissible coronavirus variants. “With the threat of the delta variant and potentially other looming variants in the future, it seems like it’s
COVID-19 catalyzed another recession, but these industry leaders pivoted and persevered. What do companies like Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Airbnb all have in common? Aside from billion-dollar valuations, these industry titans were all founded amid recessions, scaling to the pinnacle of success in the aftermath. Spanning from 1975 with the conception of Microsoft during a
In this article COF TROW RCL CCL GS CAKE Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait to enter a Disney store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic — Shares of Virgin Galactic were down 14%
Pedestrians relax in the sunshine in Greenwich Park in view of skyscrapers in the Canary Wharf business, shopping and financial district in London, U.K., on Monday, March 29, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm on Monday that the final easing of lockdown rules
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures opened mostly flat late Sunday as earnings season kicks off this week. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 25 points, or 0.07%. S&P 500 futures edged 0.08% higher and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.17%. The three major indexes closed
In this article DIS Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh star as Natasha and Yelena in Marvel’s “Black Widow.” Disney “Black Widow” has stolen the pandemic-era box office crown. The latest Marvel film scored $80 million at the domestic box office during its debut, the most of any film released in the wake of the Covid
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Charles P. Rettig, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled The IRS Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. Tom Williams | Pool | Reuters Wells Fargo‘s decision to pull customers’ credit lines was lambasted