April 6, 2020
“Wayfair Inc. stock soared 38.3% in Monday premarket trading after the e-commerce home retailer said business skyrocketed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Wayfair went into March with gross revenue up just below 20%, consistent with January and February. However, business more… Continue Reading…
April 3, 2020
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled companies that guarantee nearly half of US mortgages, could require their second bailout in just over a decade if the US economy remains in a lockdown for several months, their regulator has warned.… Continue Reading…
April 3, 2020
“Nonfarm payrolls dropped by 701,000 in March, according to Labor Department numbers released Friday that only begin to show the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus crisis. It was the first decline in payrolls since September 2010 and came close… Continue Reading…
April 3, 2020
“The rebate checks are part of the $2 trillion stimulus package President Donald Trump signed into law last week, intended to provide financial relief to Americans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. People can receive a rebate check up… Continue Reading…
April 2, 2020
“The Federal Reserve is temporarily relaxing a rule that imposes additional capital requirements on deposits and Treasury securities held by the biggest U.S. banks… The decision signals a complete turnaround in money-market conditions from early March, when dislocations in interest rates indicated… Continue Reading…
April 2, 2020
“The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks.… Continue Reading…
April 1, 2020
“Indeed, it has been punishing for investors, as the market went into a coronavirus-sparked free fall that has the 124-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average registering its worst quarterly loss since the fourth quarter of 1987. The three-month skid represented the… Continue Reading…
April 1, 2020
“Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they’d already “lost wages or other personal income.” Another 16 percent said they were laid off or furloughed from work, and an additional 28 percent said they lost what they considered a “substantial amount” from… Continue Reading…
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