Month: November 2020

Since Tuesday, MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki has been running on fumes, living off Diet Coke with little sleep. Late Thursday night, Kornacki tweeted, “Forget grabbing sleep, there’s still votes coming in in PA. I’m heading back to the studio.” Twitter users urging Kornacki to take a break and change his clothes (he’s know
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Faris Hadziq/SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Bentley Motors plans to exclusively offer plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles by 2026 and fully electric models by 2030, the British luxury carmaker said Thursday. Bentley, which is owned by German automaker Volkswagen, will offer two unnamed plug-in hybrid models starting next year. The first full-electric vehicle
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Rocket Scientist Natalya Bailey owns a space startup called Accion Systems that specializes in making wafer thin engines that require a tiny fraction of energy that conventional rockets use. If successful, these ion thrusters could revolutionize how we will move through the final frontier. Video by Matt Goldman and Christian Capestany
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that investors are cheering the prospect of Democrat Joe Biden becoming president because Biden would provide more stability than President Donald Trump. Stocks were surging Thursday, building on Wednesday’s post-election rally despite the absence of a winner in the presidential race. At present, Biden holds an advantage in the Electoral
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People ride scooters past the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Erin Scott | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Reserve said Thursday 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. In addition to
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At Whole Foods, every employee knows what everybody else is making. It’s a practice called “wage transparency.” The average pay of professional titles of employees is published on the Whole Foods website. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey thinks of wage transparency as a source of motivation for employees. “It gives people something to strive for,”
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This is a comparison of Thursday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policy-making meeting on Sept. 16. Text removed from the September statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to the news media June 12, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Bill Pugliano | Getty Images General Motors is set to report its third-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, based on average analysts’ estimates compiled by Refinitive. Adjusted EPS: $1.38 Revenue: $35.51 billion
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Ozge Yagmur / EyeEm | EyeEm | Getty Images Voters in four states on Tuesday greenlighted measures to legalize and tax recreational marijuana for adults. Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota have joined the 11 states that have already legalized recreational pot. Those other states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada,
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Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Qualcomm stock rose over 6% in extended trading as its revenue and adjusted earnings per share handily beat Wall Street expectations. Here’s how Qualcomm did versus Refinitiv consensus estimates for the quarter ended Sept. 27: Earnings: $1.45 per share
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