Month: September 2020

Sarah Casillas | DigitalVision | Getty Images The IRS has a message for about 9 million Americans: You could still be eligible for a $1,200 stimulus check. The government has sent out about 160 million stimulus checks since legislation authorized those payments in the spring. Still, millions of Americans have yet to receive any money
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Herman Miller Aeron chair Source: Herman Miller Shares of office furniture retailer Herman Miller are surging after a blowout earnings report that showed the company is benefiting from the work-from-home trend.  Herman Miller jumped more than 35% in midday trading on Thursday, while the broader market was under pressure.  As the coronavirus pandemic forces millions
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Money manager Kevin Nicholson expects the stock market to stabilize and rise in early 2021. But the co-chief investment officer of global fixed income at RiverFront Investment Group warns it’ll come at a cost to the jobs market. “Companies are going to right-size their business,’ Nicholson told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday. “This is going
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A Utah County Election office employee puts mail-in ballots into a container to register the vote in the Nov. 6, 2018 midterm elections in Provo, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images News | Getty Images As we approach the Nov. 3 presidential election, Americans living overseas question if they can vote and whether they should
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Still from Dreamworks’ “The Croods.” Dreamworks Universal Studios is pushing up the date of its animated family film “The Croods: A New Age” to Thanksgiving. The studio will now debut the film on Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, instead of Dec. 23. The second “Croods” film will follow the prehistoric family voiced by Nicholas
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The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would keep its benchmark interest rate near zero for as long as it takes to help the economy bounce back from the coronavirus crisis. The Fed said the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will “weigh heavily” on the near-term outlook and poses “considerable risks” for the medium term. In addition to holding rates near rock bottom, the
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Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director Mike Speiser speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt at Pier 48 on September 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | Getty Images Two months after Facebook’s massive IPO in 2012, venture capitalist Mike Speiser was a few miles away from the social networking company, incubating a software start-up from
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Characters at the Berkshire Hathaway company Kraft Heinz booth pose with a reporter at the shareholder shopping day as part of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, May 5, 2017. Rick Wilking | Reuters Kraft Heinz on Tuesday told investors it would cut $2 billion in costs through 2024 as part of its
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The disruption to schools caused by the coronavirus pandemic constitutes a “global education emergency” that threatens to derail the education of at least 24 million students projected to drop out of school as a result, said Henrietta Fore, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund.  “At the height of Covid-19,” 192 countries shuttered schools, leaving 1.6
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A small percentage of sperm whales produce ambergris, a clump of squid beaks and fatty secretions that scientists believe exits through the whales’ bowels Ambergris is coveted by the fragrance industry for a chemical it contains called ambrien, which suspends smells in the air, and for its own unique scent Quality pieces of ambergris, which
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The FT’s Australia correspondent Jamie Smyth visits Snowy Hydro, site of a $5bn project doubling the country’s hydroelectric capacity with its 27km of tunnels to support the switch to a renewable power grid. Read more at https://on.ft.com/2WvVqic ► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2GakujT ► Listen to our podcasts: https://www.ft.com/podcasts Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/financialtimes Check
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Hundreds of jobless people wait outside the Kentucky Career Center for help with their unemployment claims on June 19 in Frankfort, Kentucky. John Sommers II/Getty Images Americans who are hoping for more financial assistance may have to wait until after the November election before Congress can strike a deal. Yet experts say continued financial assistance
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Entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel has a lot going on. She is the founder of Skinnygirl, as well as disaster relief initiative BStrong. And she’s launching her podcast, “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” this month. To get it all done, Frankel is “so organized,” she tells CNBC Make It. So what do her days look like? Frankel says
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U.S. stock futures were flat in overnight trading as investors readied for comments from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.  Dow futures rose 12 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures were also set to open flat, with gains of 0.02% and 0.07%, respectively. Better-than-expected earnings from FedEx and Adobe after the bell boosted sentiment. FedEx
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