Los Angeles County Regional Food Bank workers help with food distribution in Willowbrook, California on April 29, 2021. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has pushed an additional 31 million people worldwide into dire poverty, reversing global progress on eliminating poverty by four years, according to the Bill and
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In this article ORCL Oracle CEO Safra Catz delivers a keynote address during the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld on September 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Oracle CEO Safra Catz kicked off day two of the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld with a keynote address. The annual convention runs through September 19. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Oracle
The word “taxes” is seen engraved at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Top earners in New York City could face a combined city, state and federal income tax rate of 61.2%, according to plans being proposed by Democrats in the House
An illustration showing the cryptocurrency bitcoin with a price chart in the background. STR | NurPhoto via Getty Images The banking and investing app MoneyLion is adding crypto trading to its all-in-one financial services app. The eight-year-old fintech company, which plans to go public later this month on the New York Stock Exchange under the
House Ways and Means Committee ChairmanRep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., (left) and ranking member Kevin Brady, R-Texas. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images House Democrats on Monday revealed a package of tax hikes on corporations and the rich without President Joseph Biden‘s proposed levy on inherited property at death, according to an outline
U.S. stock index futures were modestly higher during overnight trading on Monday, after the S&P 500 finished in the green, snapping a five-day losing streak. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 75 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were up 0.13%. The Dow and S&P both advanced
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Algerina Perna | Baltimore Sun | MCT | Getty Images It appears Americans are definitely ready to bet on football. Heading into the National Football League’s 102nd season — which kicked off last week — about 45.2 million Americans said they plan to wager on games, up about 36% from a year ago, according to
Self-awareness is an important workplace trait — and, as CNBC’s Shepard Smith says, a potentially double-edged sword. “I am not here to be your token,” Smith recently said at the Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2021 National Convention. “I don’t want to be the gay journalist, I want to be the journalist who is gay.” Smith,
In this article APO Marc Rowan, co-founder and senior managing director of Apollo Global Management LLC, speaks at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images The high inflation readings for the U.S. economy are showing up in every
UpperCut Images | UpperCut Images | Getty Images Student athletes and their parents have likely heard that the NCAA has opened the door to allow collegiate athletes the ability to profit off their name, image and likeness. The NCAA policy, which took effect in July 1, will allow college athletes and recruits to make money
BartekSzewczyk | iStock | Getty Images With attention in Congress on infrastructure and a new budget, discussions about student loan cancellation seem to be on the shelf. And despite the pressure some Democrats have put on President Joseph Biden to wipe out the debt through executive action, he has expressed mostly hesitancy about doing so.
In this article SPCE APA OXY DELL Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Marathon Oil — Shares of the exploration
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In this article BNTX Business colleagues with protective face masks using infrared thermometer for measuring temperature before entrance in office. filadendron | E+ | Getty Images Office politics has been a thing of the past for most of us over the last 18 months, as millions of people worked from home throughout Covid-induced lockdowns. Now,
People queue to undergo nucleic acid testing for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the city of Ruili which borders Myanmar, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province on July 5, 2021. STR | AFP | Getty Images China’s zero-Covid approach could worsen the debt situation of the country’s companies, some of which are already in financial distress, says
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. electric vehicles are plugged in at charging stations at a roadside parking lot in Liuzhou, China, on Monday, May 17, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — While investors watched dramatic surges in the stock prices of Chinese electric car makers like Nio and Xpeng, tens of thousands of
Winner Russia’s Daniil Medvedev (R) and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hold their trophies after the 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men’s final match against at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 12, 2021. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Novak Djokovic’s hopes of a calendar Grand Slam and
U.S. companies succeed and maintain their success by engaging in research & development (R&D) that results in innovative products and services reaching customers around the world. But U.S. policies that create tax or regulatory penalties, such as the drug pricing and excise tax proposal lawmakers are considering in the reconciliation package, can curtail R&D spending