Signage is displayed outside a Yum! Brands Inc. Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yum Brands on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analyst predictions, despite international dining room closures weighing on same-store sales growth
Month: February 2021
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images GameStop’s stock is tanking again on Thursday, as the Reddit-fueled trade continues to unravel. Shares of GameStop are down more than 25% on Thursday, brining the brick-and-mortar video game retailer’s weekly losses to nearly 80%. The drop in price comes despite the rollback of trading limits from stock trading app
When Mark Cuban first started trading stocks, he learned some “expensive lessons.” That’s why he says it’s important assess your personal financial situation before trading or investing in the market, he said. “If you are buying [a stock] because you need the price to go up and solve a financial hole you are in, that
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said top regulators should be looking at the GameStop trading saga and how it is impacting markets. However, she said the situation isn’t impacting how she approaches monetary policy and doesn’t see the Fed making any adjustments in reaction to the Wall Street uproar. “I don’t think it’s something
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Brandon Bell | Reuters The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Democratic legislators on Thursday, introduced a resolution again calling on the White House to forgive $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers by executive action. “During a
Getty Images When the state-mandated shutdowns started last March, Skyler Fort, a painting contractor in northern Michigan, turned to his local credit union, 4Front Credit Union, for a PPP loan. Many Americans sought out loans in the past year, and Fort said he chose the credit union over a bank “based on the more personal
Key Findings The EU budget agreement reached in 2020 called for a new digital levy as a funding mechanism. Evidence on the taxes paid by digital companies calls into question the arguments in favor of a digital levy. EU policymakers should focus on continued implementation of digital VAT policies and ongoing international negotiations rather than
An airport employee gestures on the tarmac as an American Airlines Airbus 220 plane is seen at gate at Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia on December 18, 2020. Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images American Airlines on Wednesday said it will send furlough notices this week to about 13,000 employees as a
An investor looks at an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters BEIJING — The recent short selling frenzy on Wall Street will not likely come to China, where there are many more market restrictions. Short selling refers to a trading strategy that allows investors to bet
Khailee Ng has a keen nose for spotting promising start-ups. As a managing partner for venture capital firm 500 Startups, he is tasked with identifying and helping cultivate some of the businesses of the future. And he has advice for would-be founders hoping to build the next big thing: Look beyond the top segment of
Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images The past two weeks have seen an astonishing number of allegations about the motives of the main actors in the GameStop drama. The players include the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit, the Robinhood trading app, long-short hedge funds, politicians, and regulators, to name a few. However, to equate this
Capitol dome Congress Mark Makela | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are hoping to pass $1.9 trillion of additional pandemic relief, including extra jobless benefits. Still, many unemployed workers haven’t yet gotten benefit payments from the last stimulus package, which former President Trump signed more than a month
Key Findings Forty-four states levy a corporate income tax. Rates range from 2.5 percent in North Carolina to 11.5 percent in New Jersey. Six states—Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—levy top marginal corporate income tax rates of 9 percent or higher. Ten states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a White House press briefing, conducted by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images There have been “no red
A driver for an independent contractor wears a protective mask while operating a delivery truck to delivery N95 respirator masks outside a United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Ground sorting facility in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, April 13, 2020. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of UPS jumped by about 4% in premarket
The economic report to watch this week may disappoint Wall Street. According to MKM Partners’ Michael Darda, the January jobs report out Friday will likely show the labor market needs more time to recover from coronavirus case spikes and closures. “We have a slight chance of a beat, but it’s uncertain,” the firm’s chief economist
The chefs of Melbourne are a proud bunch — and they create dishes that travelers won’t find anywhere else in the world. They understand food, make the most of the seasonal produce and like to create an experience as much as fine flavors. From breakfast through closing time, here are five dishes that define the
A person works out at Planet Fitness as they re-open at 25 percent capacity in Boston’s Dorchester on Feb. 1, 2021. Jessica Rinaldi | Boston Globe | Getty Images As Washington squabbles over stimulus, the bond market is already counting on lots of fiscal spending and an economic bounce back. In an extreme case, inflation
People gather together to ask the McDonald’s corporation to raise workers wages to a $15 minimum wage as well as demanding the right to a union on May 23, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Millions of workers in the U.S. could be in for a pay raise as Democrats move
Filing your taxes may look a little different this year. But if you’re worried the extra boost in funds you received as stimulus payments will negatively impact your tax refund, rest assured that is not the case. That’s because the stimulus payments are not considered taxable income; they are advances on a tax credit created