Month: August 2021

In this article PFE MRNA SVA Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But more and more, the rules make that harder. Travelers are increasingly required to show proof of vaccination before they can cruise, book group tours, avoid quarantines, or vacation to tropical islands. Beyond that, vaccines are needed for everyday activities including attending
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The AMC Burbank 16 and the Batman bronze statue in Downtown Burbank. AaronP/Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty Images Shares of AMC Entertainment rose 4% after the company posted a narrower-than-expected loss during the second quarter. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by
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Halfpoint | iStock | Getty Images Many Americans are looking to Labor Day with dread. That’s when some 7.5 million of them will stop receiving their unemployment benefits. The number is more than five times the 1.3 million people who lost aid in December 2013 as the country walked away from the Great Recession. Although
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A Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter-1 mission in January 2021. SpaceX SpaceX is acquiring satellite data start-up Swarm Technologies, in a rare deal by Elon Musk’s space company that expands the team, and possibly the technological capabilities, of its growing Starlink internet service. Swarm, which has 120 of its tiny SpaceBEE satellites in orbit,
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Apple’s chief design officer, Jony Ive, is leaving the company after nearly 30 years.. Ive will start his own design company, and Apple will be one of its primary clients. He’ll continue to work closely on projects for Apple (AAPL). Ive was instrumental in establishing Apple’s sleek design aesthetic. He and Steve Jobs partnered on
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Signage outside the Novavax Inc. headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Friday, March 12, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novavax announced that it will delay the submission of its Covid-19 vaccine to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization until its fourth quarter. Shares of the biotechnology company slipped 10% after
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Tara Moore | Getty Images When the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the U.S. economy, its also prompted worries about how the ensuing downturn could affect Social Security. The program’s trust funds were already running low. At the same time, the Social Security Administration was faced with the unprecedented task of
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In this article NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Dawn Paul Marotta | Getty Images Norwegian Cruise Line said Sunday that a federal judge ruled to temporarily halt enforcement of a Florida law prohibiting businesses from requiring customers to show proof of vaccination. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams granted the preliminary injunction, allowing Norwegian to require
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Friday called on the state’s residents to get vaccinated against Covid, citing concern about the delta variant and its potential to hinder economic progress. “We’re just urging everybody to get vaccinated,” Little said on CNBC’s “The Exchange.” Little said his biggest concern and “one of the most detrimental things” to
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Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., listens during a Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit discussion in Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images With little fanfare, JPMorgan Chase has started giving its wealth management clients access to six crypto funds in the past month.
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In this article DRLCO-DK A crane loads a shipping container branded A.P. Moller-Maersk onto a freight ship. Balint Porneczi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping firm, has posted a sharp increase in second-quarter earnings as congestions and bottlenecks continue to drive up shipping rates. The company on Friday reported earnings
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