A general view of the atmosphere at the TommyXZendaya collection launch event at the Tommy Hilfiger store on March 3, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Tommy Hilfiger) David M. Benett | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. CrowdStrike Holdings
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of blood testing and life sciences company Theranos, arrives for the first day of jury selection in her fraud trial, outside Federal Court in San Jose, California on August 31, 2021. Nick Otto | AFP | Getty Images Theranos isn’t exactly a household word, but many of the
Dartanian Stovall looks at the house that collapsed with him inside during the height of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans. Michael DeMocker | USA TODAY Network via Reuters If you’ve winced at the destruction caused by Hurricane Ida along the Gulf Coast, you may want to consider whether you’re prepared in case the next big
Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images Scammers have bilked Americans out of $545 million in Covid-related fraud since the beginning of 2020 in a range of schemes from online shopping to travel, according to the FTC. The agency received almost 589,000 consumer complaints associated with the pandemic from Jan. 1, 2020 to Aug. 30,
After a dire 2020, the restaurant industry is staging a comeback, but headwinds will likely keep it from bouncing back to 2019 levels, a new report shows. The National Restaurant Association projects restaurant and foodservice industry sales will jump nearly 20% to $789 billion this year, from $659 billion in 2020. But the projection is
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Aug. 3, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. stock futures opened slightly higher Tuesday night after the S&P 500 notched a seven-month win streak in August. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 45 points, or 0.13%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq
When I was 25, inspired by the energy and excitement of the New York Stock Exchange after a visit when I was in college, I started my own investing firm, Caffey Investment Group. Prior to launching my business, I worked at my father’s insurance agency for three years and then worked at two other investment
FatCamera Most workers over age 40 don’t have sufficient retirement savings and aren’t setting aside enough to catch up, according to a survey from the Insured Retirement Institute. Despite the nest egg shortfall, many still expect to retire early and believe they will have ample retirement income. More than half of older Americans have less
zimmytws | iStock | Getty Images A new report released by the Social Security Administration on Tuesday reveals new estimates of just how much the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the program’s already ailing trust funds. The results show the funds from which the program pays benefits have been “significantly affected” by both the pandemic and
Jianbi Chen | iStock | Getty Images Now that struggling renters are no longer protected by a national ban on evictions, it has become even more pressing for those households to get approved for federal rental assistance. Congress has allocated more than $45 billion in rental assistance to address the crisis hitting tenants and their
Ben Rains dives into the broader market as we head into September. The bullish outlook remains in place despite various concerns and all three major U.S. indexes are trading right near their all-time highs. Given this backdrop, investors might want to consider buying two highly-ranked technology stocks trading at huge discounts at the moment. (0:30)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kameleon007 | iStock | Getty Images The national eviction ban is no longer in effect, after the Supreme Court struck it down last week, leaving the more than 11 million Americans still behind on their rent at risk of being forced out of their homes. However, at least four states and Washington, D.C., will continue