Month: July 2020

Southwest airline planes sit on the tarmac at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport on February 20, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Southwest Airlines said Thursday it lost $915 million in the second quarter compared with $741 million in net income a year earlier and warned travel demand will likely remain depressed until
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Amid the pandemic, the number of consumers requesting airline refunds has reached new heights. In fact, the Department of Transportation has received “an unprecedented volume of complaints from passengers” regarding airline refunds during this time, CNBC reported.  And on CNBC’s new web series ”Got a Money Dispute? Ask Kevin,” host Kevin O’Leary says arguments over travel refunds are “one
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Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., listens during an interview on The David Rubenstein Show in New York on Sept. 27, 2017. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft will report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after market close on Wednesday. Here are Wall Street’s expectations for Microsoft: Earnings: $1.34 per share, adjusted, as
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Billionaire Mark Cuban told CNBC on Monday the stock market’s rally from its late March coronavirus-driven low reminds him of the 1990s dot-com bubble. “In some respects it’s different because of the Fed and the liquidity they’ve introduced and the inflation for financial assets that comes with that. But on a bigger picture, it’s so
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Shareholders watch the stock market in a securities business hall. Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, 6 July 2020. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images China’s recent stock market rally is raising fears that it’s being driven by retail investors indulging in leverage-fueled risky trading which caused a spectacular crash back in 2015. Analysts say they
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SVP and Director at IBM Research Arvind Krishna speaks on stage during the 2016 Wired Business Conference in New York on June 16, 2016. Brian Ach | Getty Images IBM shares rose as much as 6% in extended trading on Monday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that were better than analysts had expected. Here’s
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Nearly all college students think distance learning should cost less. Very few schools agree. After most colleges and universities moved online in the spring, three-quarters of all college students were unhappy with the quality of the education they received. Now, roughly 93% of undergraduates said tuition should be lowered if classes continue remotely in the fall, according to a
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Bracken Darrell, CEO, Logitech International Scott Mlyn | CNBC Logitech raised its outlook for the 2021 fiscal year and reported a more than 75% increase in non-GAAP operating income in its first quarter, boosted by demand for its webcams, video conferencing products and headsets as homeworking increased during the coronavirus lockdowns. The company said demand
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Ramin Talaie | Getty Images Coca-Cola is expected to report its second-quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share: 40 cents expected Revenue: $7.18 billion expected The coronavirus pandemic has weighed on both supply and demand for Coke’s products. About half
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The view from the top of Shanghai’s skyscraper shows Jin Mao Tower (left) and Shanghai World Financial Centre (right) on November 11, 2015 in Shanghai, China. Alexander Kaunas | Kommersant | Getty Images BEIJING — When it comes to betting on a post-coronavirus China, some of the country’s largest property developers are concentrating on a few
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The World Health Organization on Monday applauded newly published data by researchers at Oxford University and AstraZeneca on a potential coronavirus vaccine but cautioned that it’s still early and further evidence of its effectiveness is needed.  “It is good news,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s emergencies program, said at a press conference at the organization’s
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