Month: April 2022
Atlanta Apple store is the first to file for union election
An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue shortly after new products went on sale in Manhattan, in New York City, March 18, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters An Apple retail store in the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, Georgia, has filed for a union election, the Communication Workers […]
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Tesla reports first-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. Christian Marquardt | Getty Images Electric vehicle maker Tesla is set to deliver a first quarter earnings update after the bell on Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, according to […]
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Looking for the next earnings season blowups after the Netflix disaster
CNBC Pro found more companies with similarly troubling set-ups after shockingly poor subscriber numbers cratered Netflix shares. Source
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Relief, confusion and disappointment as masks come off on planes
Passengers at LaGuardia Airport on April 19, 2022. Leslie Josephs | CNBC The Biden administration’s transportation mask mandate was one of the most divisive policies of the Covid pandemic. Its sudden end this week was just as contentious. A federal judge in Florida on Monday struck down the mandate, which for more than a year […]
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Fed’s Daly says the economy can handle rate hikes, but a mild recession is possible
Mary Daly, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, poses after giving a speech on the U.S. economic outlook, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, November 12 2018. Ann Saphir | Reuters San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly acknowledged Wednesday that a near-certain series of interest rate hikes over the coming months could tip […]
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U.S. Treasury sanctions Russian bitcoin miners as war enters its third month
A view of partially destroyed building in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol under the control of Russian military and pro-Russian separatists on April 13, 2022. Leon Klein | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is taking aim at bitcoin miners operating in Russia as the […]
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DOJ announces $150 million in Covid health fraud, bogus vaccination prosecutions nationwide
Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced criminal charges against two people in California in a scheme that allegedly made $144 million in false and fraudulent health claims to federal programs for unnecessary […]
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IBM stock on pace for best day since April 2020 as analysts raise estimates
Wired senior staff writer Cade Metz and Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO and then senior vice president and director at IBM Research, speak onstage at the Wired Business Conference in New York on June 16, 2016. Brian Ach | Wired | Getty Images IBM shares rose as much as 8% on Wednesday after the hardware, software […]
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to SALT limit from New York, New Jersey
Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference announcing the State and Local Taxes (SALT) Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from New York and three other states to overturn the $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and […]
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The latest U.S. sanctions against Russia target a digital currency company, a bank and another oligarch
US President Joe Biden, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (L) and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (R), speaks during a meeting with his cabinet at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it expanded its wide raft of sanctions […]
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