Shoppers enter a Michaels store in Miami, Florida. Scott McIntyre | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores is having its best day ever. The reason behind this monster move was a simple bullish call from JPMorgan. Shares of Michaels are up than 50% on Monday, its biggest one-day jump on record. This
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Ravin Jesuthasan Source: Ravin Jesuthasan The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. How many of them will come back? That might be one of the most pressing questions of the Covid-19 recession. Arguably no other downturn has threatened to leave American life so unrecognizable. What will the labor market look like
Billionaire businessman Barry Diller joined CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday. Diller, chairman of Expedia Group and digital media group IAC, told Squawk Box in April that the U.S. government needed to bail out every company hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and “we’ll worry about paying the bills later.” Expedia Group’s brands include Expedia, Hotels.com, and Trivago, while IAC’s brands include
The coronavirus pandemic altered society in immeasurable ways, including, of course, investing. Stocks that benefited from people staying home, such as Netflix and Zoom Video, outperformed expectations in the past few months, while retailers and airline companies, among others, saw their stocks fall off a cliff. And now some of those worst-performing stocks of March
Do you need to wear a mask while exercising? Is it safe to socialize outside? Should I wipe down my groceries when I get home? These are the questions that still remain as the country reopens amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Many infectious disease experts and epidemiologists have been fielding these types of inquiries from family and
A “Now Hiring” sign advertising jobs at Lowe’s is seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Homestead, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters Quite unexpectedly and rather suddenly, investors have been given a reset, a reprieve, a chance at a fresh start. What should they do with it?
An OPEC sign hangs outside the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 29, 2017. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg | Getty Images OPEC and its oil-producing allies reportedly agreed to extend the historic 9.7 million barrels per day production cut that was set to expire at the end of June, according to two sources familiar
Spencer Platt | Getty Images The unemployment rate in the U.S. improved last month as millions of people returned to the workforce. But the official 13.3% unemployment rate, while still high relative to any point since the Great Depression in the early 20th century, likely understates the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. The
Shares of Slack continued to drop double digits Friday, as investors remained disappointed that the company reported steady revenue growth rather than blowout numbers. Earnings also showed that Slack doesn’t have the massive revenue growth that Zoom does. The company’s stock was down more than 17% in morning trading. Shares initially fell as much as
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday raved about the May jobs report, saying the 2.5 million jobs added last month was evidence the U.S. economy was bouncing back from the coronavirus-induced devastation. “We’re back,” he said on “Squawk Box.” ”I think there were a lot of people who felt that the layoffs would be permanent and it’s obvious that
The coronavirus shutdown derailed the plans of students across the globe. Some people are opting to take time off of college to wait for their campus, and the world, to return to some form of normal. Watch this video to learn why one prospective student decided not to enroll next semester and to see how
Investor Paul Meeks sees record upside in technology stocks. Meeks, who’s known for running the world’s largest tech fund during the dot-com bubble, reveals he’s just as passionate now — and he’s making a big bet on semiconductors. “We’re now seeing tech as not only the obvious upside winner, but believe it or not despite what
A visitor walks past a Ford Escape Titanium at an auto show last April. Greg Baker | AFP | Getty Images Ford Motor said Thursday it is delaying plans for salaried workers to begin returning to offices in late June until September. It said the move is to ensure that Ford has enough personal protection equipment
A pedestrian passes by the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, in New York on March 17, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Michael Nagle via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency Great Depression-era levels of unemployment. An economy in downward spiral. More than 100,000 dead from a killer virus. Cities in flames amid widespread civil
Cans of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup are seen in a supermarket in New York. Richard Levine | Corbis News | Getty Images Campbell Soup raised its full-year profit and sales forecast on Wednesday after beating expectations for third-quarter results as consumers stocked up on soup, pasta sauces and salsa while they stayed at home during
Zoominfo Source: zoominfo ZoomInfo is aiming to price its initial public offering $1 ahead of its already-buoyed price range, two sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. The company had already raised its IPO price range Tuesday morning, but now could target as high as $21 a share and rake in nearly $1 billion. ZoomInfo,
In just a few days, bail funds across the country have received tens of millions of dollars in donations after the killing of George Floyd, a black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis. The influx of donations is so large in such a short period of time that some funds, including the Minnesota Freedom Fund and the Brooklyn Bail
A worker examines a sewage recycling pool in the coal liquefaction factory of CHN Energy in Ordos, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 11, 2019. Xinhua | via Getty Images BEIJING — China has a lot more to worry about at home than its foreign policy. Some energy-related companies in the country have found themselves caught
Health officials are warning that mass gatherings across the country could further spread the coronavirus, just as much of the economy is beginning to restart. Protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, continued for a seventh night with overnight clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators. The World Health Organization,
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after a May 19 closed Senate Republican policy lunch meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak. Yuri Gripas | Reuters The president is warming up to the idea. Most Democrats are down. But will Republicans get behind the idea of a second round of
Eddie Noralus works on a Toll Brothers home on August 21, 2018 in Boca Raton, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images U.S. luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers on Wednesday withdrew its full-year forecast and warned it would not provide such guidance for the foreseeable future due to uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company’s net
Traders work on the floor at the opening bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2020 in New York. Bryan R. Smith | AFP | Getty Images Chief financial officers of major corporations around the globe are more likely to believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average will
Self-made billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn’t recommend many business books. “In my experience, it is rare to find one that really captures what it’s like to build and operate an organization or that has tips you could really put into practice,” he writes on his blog, GatesNotes. But there’s a new business book
A view of the Fearless Girl with New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street in the backdrop amid Coronavirus Pandemic on April 5, 2020. John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty Images U.S. stock futures fell on Sunday night as Wall Street was set to kick off June trading on a sour note after consecutive monthly
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a protective face shield during a tour of the Ford Rawsonville Components Plant that is manufacturing ventilators, masks and other medical supplies during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S., May 21, 2020. Leah Millis | REUTERS Independents voters, a key swing voting bloc for the 2020
Wine store employees catalog a new shipment of alcohol on May 28, 2020 in New York City. Government guidelines encourage wearing a mask in public with strong social distancing in effect as all 50 states in the USA have begun a gradual process to slowly reopen after weeks of stay-at-home measures to slow the spread
Pedestrians are reflected in the window of an Abercrombie & Fitch store in New York. Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Abercrombie & Fitch‘s sales tanked 34% during the first quarter, the company announced Thursday, as its stores were forced shut during the coronavirus pandemic, and people purchased less apparel as they were holed
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for Demo-2 inside the company’s hangar at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX SpaceX is set for its most important milestone yet, in a launch that may well define the future of the U.S. space program. Elon Musk’s company plans to launch a pair of NASA astronauts on Wednesday — the
The former Calabasas, California home of Kylie Jenner is on the market for $3.6 million. The house is located in the exclusive Oaks neighborhood, where her mother, Kris Jenner, and sisters, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, also owned properties. In 2015, when she was 17, Jenner bought the house for $2.6 million. She sold it two years later
Reading, PA – May 8: Major Joy Mudge, left, and Kristy Kushner, right the Director of Social Services, helps to organize boxes ready for distribution. During a food distribution at the Salvation Army location on South 5th Street in Reading, PA Friday afternoon May 8, 2020. (Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)