Nurse Mary Ezzat administers a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot to Jessica M. at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images Nearly 1 million Covid-19 booster shots have already been administered in the U.S. since health officials authorized administering extra
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A woman walks by a “Now Hiring” sign outside a store on August 16, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images You don’t have to go far to see a “now hiring” sign these days, as certain industries struggle to bounce back amid the coronavirus pandemic. For some workers, it
Deciding if and when to expand a business isn’t an easy task. When partners disagree, it also adds some tension into the mix, especially if they are married. For Chris and Emily Elias, it was a debate over whether to broaden their existing mobile dog-grooming business, Massapequa, New York-based The Ruff Life, into other cities
Real estate agents Rosa Arrigo, center, and Elisa Rosen, right, work an open house in West Hempstead, New York on April 18, 2021. Newsday LLC | Newsday | Getty Images Home prices rose 18.6% annually in June, up from the 16.8% increase in May, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index. That
OLIVIER DOULIERY | AFP | Getty Images Millions of people are poised to lose their unemployment benefits this weekend, when federal pandemic-era policies will end. Congress authorized a historic expansion of the country’s safety net for jobless individuals in March 2020 to manage the fallout of the Covid-fueled economic downturn. Lawmakers twice extended those temporary
Taiwan is banking on a homegrown Covid-19 shot to speed up its inoculation program as the island and many countries struggle to secure vaccine deliveries from major drug companies. The locally produced Covid vaccine from Medigen Vaccine Biologics was rolled out last week, with President Tsai Ing-wen receiving her first shot of the two-dose vaccine
Adina Eigen took her first trip to the British Virgin Islands in December 2020. Around that time, it had one of the world’s lowest Covid rates among islands that had reopened. The 42-year-old mother of four from Sands Point, New York, has since returned twice, checking infection rates — and vaccination statistics — before her
Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Even as the delta variant of Covid-19 upends return to work and school plans, many parents who are now sidelined are plotting a return to work. About 81% of parents who are looking for job openings are planning to do so for financial reasons, according to a new survey conducted
Housing prices across Asia-Pacific are surging — in some cases, by as much as 37%. Homebuyers are taking advantage of continued pandemic-induced stimulus, while international investors are looking for a place to put their money. To get a better picture of where real estate prices are going, CNBC compared the median sale prices of one-,
A Meituan food courier delivers a bag of food to a resident of a neighborhood under lockdown due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak on August 11, 2021, in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province of China. Yang Huafeng | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s services industry contracted in August for the first time since
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In this article T DIS CMCSA VIAC Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Anthony McCoy in “Candyman.” Universal Pictures Movie after movie, Hollywood’s recent blockbusters have struggled to bounce back to 2019-level ticket sales. But “Candyman” once again proved what a profit driver the horror genre is. Over the weekend, the Universal Pictures film’s debut tallied
In this article ZM Zoom CEO Eric Yuan speaks before the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony in New York on April 18, 2019. Kena Betancur | Getty Images Zoom shares fell as much as 10% in extended trading on Monday after the video-calling software maker reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations, but showed slowing
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves after a hearing at a federal court in San Jose, California, July 17, 2019. Stephen Lam | Reuters Nearly a decade ago, Elizabeth Holmes was proclaimed the golden girl of Silicon Valley, and briefly crowned America’s youngest female self-made billionaire. This week, she’ll walk into a San Jose federal
In this article PYPL SQ HOOD The PayPal app shown on an iPhone Katja Knupper | DeFodi Images | Getty Images PayPal is exploring a possible stock-trading platform. After rolling out the ability to trade cryptocurrencies last year, the payments giant has been exploring ways to let users trade individual stocks, according to two sources
SDI Productions Expecting an enhanced write-off for charitable gifts in 2021? The deduction won’t look the same as it did in 2020, according to tax experts. As the pandemic ravaged American lives, Congress added a provision to the CARES Act to spark more charitable giving: an improved tax deduction for cash gifts up to $300
The mansion at 1108 Wallace Ridge in Beverly Hills, California is 18,000 square feet and unfolds over two levels. Mark Angeles It took six years for this $65 million megahome to rise up on a ridge in Los Angeles. Back in 2014, an outdated mansion sat on the half-acre lot at 1108 Wallace Ridge. It
The bull sculpture representing the rise of the market by artist Reinhard Dachlauer is pictured in front of the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 29, 2020. Daniel Roland | AFP | Getty Images Stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading on Monday as the S&P 500 looks to wrap up its seventh straight
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