As many as one third of 40 Chinese property developers rated by Fitch Ratings could suffer a cash squeeze in a severe scenario where home sales revenue drops by 30% next year, says the ratings giant. “The longer the stresses on China’s property sector last, the greater the risk of a loss in consumer confidence,”
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A Biotech Company and an Under-The-Radar Cloud Transformation Stock to Round Out the Year Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) is a biotechnology company engaged in developing innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. Novavax’s coronavirus vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, is currently approved for use in the European Union (EU), Indonesia and the Philippines. Regulatory applications seeking approval for the
US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with with the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force and private sector CEOs, in the South Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 22, 2021. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Monday pledged to support governors struggling with the omicron
In this article DIDI CAR MRNA CI GDDY AAPL Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Airline stocks – The major carriers saw their shares fall in the premarket after a surge in weekend cancellations due to staffing issues. United Airlines (UAL) slid 1.8%, American Airlines (AAL) fell 1.4%, Delta Air Lines (DAL)
Victoria Popova | iStock | Getty Images Student loan borrowers got some happy news this holiday season: They’ll have an additional three months before they have to start making their payments again. The payment pause, which has been in effect since March 2020, was scheduled to expire Jan. 31, but the Biden administration announced it
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Jim Lo Scalzo | EPA | Bloomberg | Getty Images The federal government should consider requiring Covid-19 vaccines
In this article APA GDDY AAL AEO RL GoDaddy logo SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. GoDaddy — The web hosting company saw its shares jump nearly 9.2% following a Wall Street Journal report that activist investor Starboard Value has taken a 6.5% stake in it,
2021 was a wild year for cryptocurrency. Despite bitcoin’s recent plunge, for example, its price has still risen by more than 70% in the past 52 weeks. More important, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made tremendous strides, not just in valuation — today the cryptocurrency market capitalization is estimated at $2.5 trillion, more than double a year
In this article GDDY Spencer Platt | Getty Images Activist investor Starboard Value has taken a 6.5% stake in GoDaddy, sparking a rally in shares of the web services company. The hedge fund bought more than 10,000 shares of GoDaddy, worth about $800 million, according to a regulatory filing. The new stake became the biggest
Integrity Pictures Inc | The Image Bank | Getty Images The share of employers allowing Roth 401(k) savings surged last year, giving more workers access to the financial benefits that accompany such contributions. A Roth is a type of after-tax account. Workers pay taxes up front on 401(k) savings, but investment growth and account withdrawals
In this article DIS 6758.T-JP Tom Holland and Benedict Cumberbatch star as Peter Parker and Doctor Strange in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Sony “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has done what few thought was possible during the pandemic era — top $1 billion at the global box office. The co-production between Sony and Disney is now
New cars for export wait for shipping at a seaport in Yantai, China on September 7, 2021. Feature China | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese authorities will allow full foreign ownership of passenger car manufacturing in the country beginning Jan. 1, 2022. That’s according to a release Monday from the Ministry of
Your car may be more valuable than what’s in your portfolio. Used auto prices are rising faster than bitcoin and other assets, according to market researcher Jim Bianco. “If you want to know what the best investment you probably had in 2021, it’s that car sitting in your driveway or in that garage,” the Bianco
Whenever Anne Helen Petersen and her partner Charlie Warzel, both journalists, were on a trip, they’d find themselves talking about moving to wherever they were visiting. “It would happen when we went to Santa Fe and to the Catskills,” Petersen said. “It was every single place.” That told them that they weren’t happy in New
In this article T DIS CMCSA Ariana DeBose stars as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s new “West Side Story” movie. 20th Century Studios Despite rave reviews, Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” has failed to gain traction with audiences at the box office. In its first three weeks in cinemas, the adaption of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen
The Jet offers one-by-two luxury seating in its 14-passenger coaches between New York and Washington, D.C., along with at-seat attendant service and UV air filtration. The Jet For New York City resident James Gilmer, 28, long-distance travel by bus usually means something very specific: getting to and from his hometown of Pittsburgh during the holidays.
In this article TSLA T BIIB AAPL NVDA PFE CNBC’s Jim Cramer offered his list of the biggest winners on Wall Street in 2021. The “Mad Money” host also shared his biggest disappointments, as markets head into their final trading days of the year. “As we wrap up 2021, I think it’s the ideal time
CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who is not shy about criticizing SPACs, on Thursday highlighted a trio of stocks that he believes are actually worth owning after completing their reverse mergers with blank-check companies. The “Mad Money” host made a different investment case for each of the three companies: Matterport, Open Lending and Blue Owl Capital. But
Loading chart… Penn National Gaming: “I like Penn National. I liked it low. I liked it high. I think Penn National is a winner. I think that it’s done a lot of good things, and it’s just that gambling has just become a very difficult job. We know those stocks have been in a terrible
For the most part, Bill Gates is optimistic about 2022. But the billionaire Microsoft co-founder still has a few concerns heading into the coming year. In Gates’ recently published end-of-year blog post, titled “Reasons for optimism after a difficult year,” he made multiple rosy prognostications — from the Covid pandemic potentially ending to the oncoming