Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber Technologies, speaks during an Economic Club of Washington event in Washington, DC, June 11, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Uber shares dropped as much as 4% after the company reported third quarter revenue on Thursday that missed Wall Street’s expectations, including a revenue decline of 18% from
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Columbia Law School adjunct lecturer Caroline Polisi told CNBC Wednesday that “most, if not all” of the Trump administration’s legal challenges in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania “lack merit,” as ballots in key battleground states continue to be counted. Polisi, who is a federal and white collar criminal defense attorney, noted that the hook the Trump
The U.S. Capitol is seen in the morning on November 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. The nation awaits the results of a historic presidential election between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden with swing states still too close to call. Al Drago | Getty Images As the question remains
Currency dealers monitor exchange rates in a trading room at KEB Hana Bank in Seoul on November 4, 2020, as Asian markets react to early predictions following the U.S. presidential election. JUNG YEON-JE | AFP | Getty Images Investors should tread carefully to avoid being “whiplashed” by ongoing market “confusion,” economists have told CNBC, as
Voters fill ballots at the Kentucky Exposition Center during the election in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. November 3, 2020. Bryan Woolston | Reuters Voters across the country head to the polls on Tuesday for their last chance to cast a ballot in the 2020 election. At least 100 million Americans had already cast their ballots heading into
NBC News’ presidential historian Michael Beschloss warned on election eve that the credibility of the United States is “absolutely on the line” when it comes to the results of the presidential election. “You have not had a situation where a president has said, ‘I have a real worry that this is not going to be
Demonstrators stand across the street from the federal courthouse in Houston, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, before a hearing in federal court involving drive-thru ballots cast in Harris County. David J. Phillip | AP A federal judge on Monday rejected an effort by Republicans to invalidate more than 100,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting locations in
Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots as they are counted at the City Hall during the presidential primary election held amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beloit, Wisconsin, April 7, 2020. Daniel Acker | Reuters Record numbers of voters have already cast their ballots in the 2020 election
Sebastian Gollnow | picture alliance | Getty Images Some 130 miles south of Salt Lake City, engineers are working on what will become a giant cavity in the ground. It’s a geological formation known as a salt dome, a column of salt surrounded by sedimentary layers, and when it’s filled with hydrogen, it could become
The U.S. reported 99,321 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, beating its previous record set only a day prior as the pandemic worsens in nearly every corner of the nation. “We’re at a point where the epidemic is accelerating across the country. We’re right at the beginning of the steep part of the epidemic curve,” Dr.
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a news conference on September 08, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ending a requirement for travelers from places with a high amount of coronavirus cases to quarantine for two weeks upon arriving in the state. Instead,
Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that the United States is only “at the beginning of the steep part of the epidemic” as the number of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations across the country break grim records. In an interview on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” on Friday, the former FDA chief said, “You’ll see cases start
Joggers pass the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Erin Scott | Bloomberg | Getty Images With inflation still elusive and a host of questions surrounding an economy that just set a single-quarter record for growth, the Federal Reserve faces a choice of whether to wait for
The founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the 56th Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 15, 2020. Christof Stache | AFP | Getty Images Facebook on Thursday issued an update to political advertisers acknowledging that a technical error in its systems caused a number of ads from both political
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals the new iPhone 12. Source Apple is set to report its fiscal fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates: EPS: $0.70 Revenue: $63.7 billion iPhone revenue: $27.93 billion Services revenue: $14.08 billion Other products revenue: $7.40 billion Mac
White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNBC in an interview Wednesday that the United States is “going in the wrong direction” as coronavirus cases rise in 47 states and infected patients overwhelm hospitals across the country. “If things do not change, if they continue on the course we’re on, there’s gonna be a
In an era of deep political divide, half of registered voters in the U.S. said they expect to have difficulty casting their ballot in the 2020 election, according to a Pew Research Center poll. With early voting already underway, President Donald Trump has made a series of false statements, claiming mail-in voting is rife with
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2013. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Political advertisers say they’re having trouble with ads that were already approved before Facebook began its planned blackout period for new political ads leading up to the election. Facebook announced last month that it would not accept