The Covid-19 pandemic upended the home-buying process. Historically-low mortgage rates coupled with an inventory shortage created a red hot market, with houses selling within hours of being listed, often for well over asking price. No one knows exactly what the future has in store. But housing experts tell CNBC Make It that in 2022, buyers
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Labor activists hold a rally in support of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour on the National Mall on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images California’s largest businesses will be required to pay workers a minimum of $15 an hour in January. It’s a milestone fast-food workers have
Narisara Nami | Moment | Getty Images You may be thinking it’s time to get into the stock market. Whether it is a resolution for the new year or you want to get in on the gains you saw others make, you’ll want to make sure you do it right. To be sure, stocks climbed
In this article VIPS BA CCL UAL Coinbase signage in New York’s Times Square during the company’s initial public offering on the Nasdaq on April 14, 2021. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Coinbase — Shares of the crypto exchange fell 6.9% on Tuesday as digital currencies
A worker fulfills orders at a Gorillas “dark store” in London’s trendy Shoreditch district on May 20, 2021. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — A battle to find space powering the ultrafast grocery delivery boom is pushing up rents in parts of London’s commercial property sector. Companies like Getir, Gorillas and Zapp,
A person performs a self-swab test for COVID-19 in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, Dec. 17, 2021. Michael Nagle | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images People infected with the heavily mutated omicron variant of Covid-19 may have increased immune protection against delta, a new study says. As a consequence, omicron
Elon Musk runs two of the world’s most innovative and valuable tech companies — but you may not want to be his assistant. The 50-year-old SpaceX and Tesla CEO is a business “savant,” but his “gift is not empathy with people,” his brother and longtime business partner Kimbal Musk told Time Magazine earlier this month.
Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship on November 22, 2021 in Bayonne, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Morgan Stanley said most acute supply chain disruptions are already easing and will be more fully resolved within the first half of 2022. That’s the base case the investment bank laid out in a recent
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images After making payments on her student loans since 2005, Karen Tongson is finally free of her debt. In November, Tongson, an English and gender studies professor, signed into her loan account and discovered her balance had fallen from $47,000 to $0, thanks to
A trader works on the trading floor on the last day of trading before Christmas at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 23, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters U.S. stock futures opened flat Tuesday night following a mixed session as traders continued to assess the threat of the
Ben Rains dives into the market’s quick bullish turn that pushed the S&P 500 back up to new highs ahead of Christmas and on the Monday before New Year’s Eve. Investors might want to take advantage of the current positivity and buy strong stocks still trading at discounts heading into 2022. (0:30) – Stock Market
Healthcare workers prepare Covid-19 tests at a Nomi Health testing site in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Dan Brouillette | Bloomberg | Getty Images An investigation into a cluster of omicron infections in Nebraska suggests the heavily mutated variant has a shorter incubation period and causes similar or milder symptoms compared to past
Marko Geber | DigitalVision | Getty Images Employers are increasingly putting retirement savings on autopilot for their workers. About 62% of businesses with a 401(k) plan used automatic enrollment in 2020, up from 60% the year prior and 46% a decade ago, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America, a trade group. This feature
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Farr, Miller & Washington is a “buy-to-hold” investment manager, which means we make each investment with the intent to hold the position for a period of
FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images Open enrollment for the public health insurance marketplace lasts a month longer than usual this year — which means there’s still time to get coverage. Through Jan. 15 — unless your state has a different closing date — you and your family can sign up for a plan through
In this article AAPL VIPS RRD COIN EXTR HHC Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Apple (AAPL) – The company is once again approaching a $3 trillion market value, needing to reach $182.86 per share to achieve that milestone. Separately, Apple is closing its 12 New York City stores to indoor traffic
In this article TAP ABI-BE PEP SAM 2587.T-JP KO RI-FR Topo Chico Hard Seltzer Source: Coca-Cola Bud Light is adding cola and orange soda to its seltzer, Mountain Dew is moving into the alcohol aisles and Molson Coors has a whiskey brand. In the hunt for growth, beverage companies are experimenting in new categories, blurring
A trader blows bubble gum during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 1, 2019, in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images If the market is in an everything bubble, wealthy Americans are headed into 2022 saying they don’t really want much more — of anything, according
Portra Images | Getty Images Many Americans may be experiencing a spending hangover after the holidays. This year, it may have been easier than ever to spend more than intended. Some families were able to gather together after being apart last year, and inflation and supply chain issues have driven up the cost of many
New cars for export wait for shipping at a seaport in Yantai, China on September 7, 2021. Feature China | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese authorities will allow full foreign ownership of passenger car manufacturing in the country beginning Jan. 1, 2022. That’s according to a release Monday from the Ministry of