Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya argued Tuesday on CNBC that Jeff Bezos is a better investor than Warren Buffett, pointing to the Amazon CEO and founder’s history of reinvesting in the business. “People used to lambaste Jeff Bezos for not being profitable, but when you looked under the hood, he was the single best investor of our generation,
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican members of Congress in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 8, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters President Donald Trump is reportedly considering another way to get more money to struggling Americans by letting them take an advance on their
Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic (C) poses next to George T. Whitesides (R), CEO of Virgin Galactic Holdings after ringing the First Trade Bell to commemorate the company’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 28, 2019. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Virgin Group founder Sir Richard
As states begin to lift stay-at-home orders, some of the first businesses to shut down in March to minimize the spread of coronavirus are now beginning to reopen their doors. Workers within the retail, restaurant, hospitality, service and meatpacking industries are getting calls from their employers that it’s time to get back to work. But
What a difference a year may make. CFRA’s Sam Stovall believes stocks will return to all-time highs in the next 12 months. “In other bear markets going back to 1929, and the average 13 month advance was 50%,” the firm’s chief investment strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday. “We have a very good possibility
Many recovered Covid-19 patients are reporting a longer road to “full health” than expected and some appear to have relapsed, the World Health Organization said Monday. Researchers around the world are still trying to understand exactly how the coronavirus affects the human body. WHO officials say they are working with governments and hospitals around the
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► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs The booming outsourcing sector has created jobs in the services sector for an educated middle class that is thriving. But not everyone is benefiting from the country’s economic growth. Lack of investment, training and manufacturing means there are few opportunities for those without a decent education.
Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of the green energy story. He found a start-up called Icewind that is building a new type of funky wind turbine designed to perform well in low-wind conditions but also to slow itself down in high-winds,
Ali Abdullah tells CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall how he went from being homeless to launching a startup that’s raised $2 million.
Richard Cordray, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and author of “Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy” Congress provided borrowers a lifeline when it passed the CARES Act. Whether it will deliver significant relief to consumers remains to be seen. The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill
Paul Tudor Jones speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones said Monday the economy would be in a “Second Depression” if the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t get contained for another year. “If a year from now, we are still in the same
You get what you pay for — usually. But as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many parents find themselves at home with their kids 24/7, while still paying child-care bills. Sabrina Ryan’s life is now dictated by a shared calendar. In order to balance work responsibilities and caring for their 3-year-old son, Ryan and
The world’s wealthiest could be subjected to higher tax rates as governments scramble to fund spending and repair their economies amid the coronavirus crisis, an economist has predicted. Speaking to CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” on Monday, Roger Bootle, chairman of Capital Economics, said he was concerned that some governments — including Britain’s — would assume
An Under Armour store front is seen on November 04, 2019 in Sunrise, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Under Armour reported a sales decline of 23% during its first quarter, as its business took a blow from the coronavirus pandemic and its stores were forced shut, freezing its turnaround plans. The retailer said it plans to
Jeremy Kennedy, a Ford employee, secures the engine and transmission to the subframe of a new 2020 Explorer at Chicago Assembly Plant. Ford Not even during the Great Recession and bankruptcies of General Motors and then-Chrysler did the automotive industry come to a standstill like it has during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. automakers are losing
Robert Kneschke / EyeEm The coronavirus has devastated economies around the world and disrupted life in ways that were unimaginable just a few months ago. The world will never be the same. But at some point, industries will start coming back online and people will start going out again. We asked travel industry experts for
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters With one-third of S&P 500 companies declining to provide guidance, picking winners and losers has become a very delicate business. How
After being selected No. 3 overall by Chicago in the 1984 NBA draft, Michael Jordan made an immediate impact on the Bulls organization. Just weeks into his professional career, “everybody on that Bull team … knew he was the best player we had,” said the team’s former general manager Rod Thorn on an episode of
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters U.S. stock futures fell on Sunday night after Wall Street posted consecutive rallies to end last week amid the prospects of
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on April 1, 2020 tours one of the company’s facilities in Warren, Michigan that will produce Level 1 face masks. GM General Motors is set to report its first-quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday as the company grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that’s shuttered
A view of a store front with sign Out of Business in Soho area New York City USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 27, 2820. John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty Images The U.S. economy was slowing last year, but many companies entered 2020 with reasons to be optimistic and expansion plans to match. Hotel
Each year, 100,000 people apply for a position as a Delta Air Lines flight attendant, but only 3,000 people get the job. That’s because it’s much more than being a waitress in the sky. We visited Delta’s flight attendant training facility in Atlanta to see how they’re trained for emergency evacuations and medical emergencies. MORE
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A UN employee who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is being treated at the Begin hospital, near Paris. The same hospital treated another patient in September who survived Ebola. Bloomberg went to the hospital to meet with the doctor overseeing treatment. #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Pandemics ——– Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube:
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tells CNN Tech’s Rachel Crane that whether the launch of the Falcon Heavy “succeeds or fails, it’s going to be exciting.”
A month-long battle with the coronavirus made it difficult for Esteban Giron and his husband to pay their $990 rent. ”I was so sick I could barely walk to the bathroom,” Giron, 41, said. He’s lived in his apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for over seven years, and if he had to move out, it would be
Mehmet Ali Ozcan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A rally in bitcoin led the cryptocurrency market higher ahead of a major technical event for the digital coin and as industry participants report an increased interest from institutional investors. Bitcoin crossed $10,000 on Friday morning Singapore time, the first time it has hit that price
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson must be doing something right. Last season, which was only his second year with the league, the 23-year-old was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player. Jackson is the second player in NFL history to receive unanimous votes for the prestigious title (with fellow quarterback Tom Brady being the other in 2010).
A man wears a mask as he passes the New York Stock Exchange. Mark Lennihan | AP U.S. equities rallied on Friday, despite a historic jobs report showing more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April, bringing the unemployment rate to a staggering 14.7% due to the coronavirus shutdown. Investors shrugged off the
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