People walk past the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, in Beijing, China September 28, 2018. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s central bank is poised to move carefully toward easing monetary policy, even as the U.S. is on its way to tightening policy. In moving in the opposite
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A woman smokes an E-Cigarette at Digital Ciggz in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images For the sake of America’s kids, the Food and Drug Administration cannot reject the reality of today’s youth vaping epidemic. Last week, FDA approved the first-ever e-cigarettes to stay on the U.S. market, R.J. Reynolds’ Vuse tobacco-flavored vaping
AutoNation’s stock reached a new all-time record of more than $130 a share Thursday after the nation’s largest seller of new cars reported its sixth consecutive quarterly earnings record. AutoNation beat Wall Street’s profit and sales estimates, led by resilient consumer demand outpacing vehicle supplies due to an ongoing global shortage of semiconductor chips that
In this article BTC.CM= Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it has raised $420 million in a new round of funding, valuing the company at $25 billion. The Bahamas-based firm
In this article GSBD A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, Sept. 20, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs just closed its second billion-dollar blank-check deal ever as the Wall Street firm seeks to change the struggling SPAC market by building a
In this article JPM hxyume | E+ | Getty Images About 1 out of every 5 drivers in the gig economy was collecting unemployment benefits at the pandemic’s peak, according to a new analysis published by the JPMorgan Chase Institute. These drivers worked for “online platforms” offering services like ride hailing (Uber and Lyft, for
The U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education offered the millions of Americans with student loans the option of pressing the pause button on their bills. Close to 90% of borrowers — or 24 million people — accepted.
Elections in Louisiana are always different than in other states due to the two-round majority vote system and, in odd-numbered years, holding the first round of elections on a Saturday in October. This year there is an additional twist, with Hurricane Ida prompting a postponement of Election Day to November 13th. Also notable this year
A home, available for sale, is shown on August 12, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes increased 7% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.29 million units in September, according to the National Association of Realtors. The organization’s chief economist, Lawrence Yun pointed to a brief
A look at a company that has clocked up more searches than any other in the history of the show… QEP Co.
A laboratory technician uses a pipette device to process samples to test for the novel coronavirus Covid-19, at Biogroup Laboratory’s lab in west London on January 21, 2021. JUSTIN TALLIS | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K. amid worries that it could
In this article IBM Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), wears a protective mask while attending a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Chief executives from across the business world are