Month: April 2020

Charging Bull Statue is seen at the Financial District in New York City, United States on March 29, 2020. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Stocks futures fell slightly on Sunday night, following oil prices lower, while investors assessed the possibility of re-opening the global economy after the coronavirus outbreak. Dow Jones Industrial Average
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An employee prepares a burrito bowl at a Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday said digital sales more than doubled in March, helping the company report positive same-store sales growth even as social-distancing measures roil the restaurant industry. Shares of the company
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When “Gravity” hit theaters last fall, Neil deGrasse Tyson paid special attention to the Oscar-nominated film. The blockbuster, afterall, is set in space. Upon viewing “Gravity,” though, Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted up a storm critiquing the movie’s mysteries and inaccuracies. Tyson elaborates more on the inaccuracies of “Gravity” and explains how, despite his Twitter barrage,
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Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — Entrepreneur, Author and Peak Performance Strategist Tony Robbins discusses the best piece of advice he’s ever received and his favorite technology. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg) –Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock With Pimm Fox” brings you cutting edge market analysis
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A customer browses products at a Walmart store in Burbank, California Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. consumer sentiment fell for a third straight month as people weigh the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of an economic re-opening, data released Friday by the University of Michigan showed. The consumer sentiment index fell
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Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix attends the inauguration of Netflix new offices in Paris, France, January 17, 2020. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters It’s Netflix‘s world. We’re all just living in it.  Netflix released its first quarter subscriber figures, and as you might expect in a new global society where so many people are
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Fabian Videla Source: Fabian Videla In March, Fabian Videla realized that his 20-year-old construction and renovation company, Smarter Remodeling,in Jacksonville, Florida, might not survive the coronavirus outbreak.  “People started canceling sales appointments,” Videla, 49, said. “Current customers were apprehensive about letting crews in their houses. All of a sudden, it was a massive shutdown.” Soon,
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If you’ve been quarantined due to Covid-19 stay-at-home orders, you might be eager to travel again — or at least visit your favorite places. Thanks to virtual reality (VR), it is possible to “visit” places around the world without leaving home. Experts say these virtual excursions provide more than just entertainment; VR experiences, especially immersive
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We got an inside look at the United States Secret Service’s intense, six-month basic training program. Senior video correspondent Graham Flanagan spent three days inside the James J. Rowley Training Center in Laurel, Maryland, where he observed recruits at various stages of training. According to the Secret Service, about one in every 100 applicants makes
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The FT’s Stefania Palma explains the corruption and money-laundering inquiry at the state development and investment fund in which charges have been filed against two former Goldman Sachs bankers, local financier Jho Low and ex-1MDB employee Jasmine Loo Ai Swan ► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2GakujT ► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs
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Employee Linda Tarkenton holds a blank U.S. Treasury check before it’s run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia. Getty Images People who receive benefits through either the Department of Veterans Affairs or Supplemental Security Income who have children have a new deadline if they want to get all of the
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Comstock | Stockbyte | Getty Images “Scary,” “unbelievable,” “so dramatic,” “unprecedented,” “very visceral”: These are among the choice words Wall Street veterans used to describe what was, for the oil market, a week for the history books. On Monday, for the first time on record, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the U.S. oil benchmark, plunged below
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An employee places a pizza box onto a shelf at a Domino’s Pizza Inc. restaurant in Chantilly, Virginia. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Domino’s Pizza on Thursday said U.S. same-store sales continued to grow a month into its second quarter, even as the coronavirus pandemic roils the restaurant industry. The company’s U.S. same-store sales grew
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