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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. 6:27 am: Many stocks dropping on coronavirus fears 6:22 am: Dow futures tank by more than 800 points on coronavirus fears U.S. stock futures are falling sharply on Monday morning

Investor Paul Meeks is bracing for a bear market in technology. Meeks, who’s known for running the world’s largest tech fund during the dot-com boom, sees 20% pullback risks growing as the coronavirus outbreak spreads. “There is some comeuppance due, and unfortunately I think the coronavirus is that exogenous variable that is a catalyst to

A contractor prepares a sliding door for a home under construction at the Toll Brothers Inc. Enclave at Rye Brook housing development in Rye Brook, New York Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Owning a home has long been the individual investor’s opportunity to hold real estate. But the American millennial population is waiting

Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett thinks stocks are the place to be invested in for the long haul if interest rates and corporate taxes remain near current levlels. “If something close to current rates should prevail over the coming decades and if corporate tax rates also remain near the low level businesses

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at the TeslaDesign Studio in Hawthorne, Calif. The cracked window glass occurred during a demonstration on the strength of the glass. Robert Hanashiro | USA TODAY | Reuters Small investors are flocking to high-flying growth stocks after the brokerage industry made trading free. In the months since major

When Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, should that influence the Fed’s decisions? Two Fed officials diverged on that issue in remarks Friday at a monetary policy conference in New York. The disagreement occurred just as the scenario is playing out in real life: Investors increasingly expect the Fed to cut

A contractor for First Solar Inc. works on construction of the Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South project in Imperial County, California. Sam Hodgson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Dropbox — Shares of the data services company soared 13% during extended trading after the company announced

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, January 14, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 128 points The Dow slid 128.05 points, or 0.44%, to 29,219.98. The S&P 500 dipped 0.38% to 3,373.23. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back 0.67% to 9,750.96. A wave of risk-off sentiment, coupled

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Zillow — Shares of the real estate information company climbed 8% in extended trading after the company reported strong fourth-quarter financial results. Zillow had revenue of $944 million in the quarter, while analysts were expecting $815 million, according to

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, January 24, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters A bubble has formed in defensive and low-volatility stocks as coronavirus fears drove a record number of investors to those pockets of the market, according to JPMorgan’s quant guru

Chinese students of Fuyang No.5 Middle School study in a classroom at night for upcoming National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) on May 29, 2018 in Fuyang, China. Visual China Group | Getty Images As local governments in China delay the re-opening of schools to limit the spread of the new virus, parents and institutions are

Lending Club banners hang on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange for it’s IPO on December 11, 2014 in New York. Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images LendingClub, a fintech company that pioneered personal loans made online, is buying a U.S. bank to give it access to a stable and cheaper source

The partners of European venture capital firm Atomico. Atomico Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, has raised $820 million for a new fund — the biggest since it was set up by the billionaire in 2006. The firm plans to cash in on the ongoing “renaissance” in Europe’s tech sector,

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at the SpaceX launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Bronte Wittpenn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla‘s stock has piqued the interest of professional and retail traders alike as they try

N26’s logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Customers of the German online bank N26 say they feel “outraged” and “betrayed” by the firm’s decision to leave the U.K. Berlin-based N26 announced last week that it would no longer be able to operate in the country

Giant letters, reading the word ‘blockchain’, are displayed at the blockchain centre, which aims at boosting start-ups, on February 7, 2018 in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. Petras Malukas | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING – As Chinese authorities rush to support businesses struggling to survive the effects of the new coronavirus, blockchain technology is showing its

Hillary Clinton speaks onstage at ‘Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton discuss their new book ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’ at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on November 05, 2019 in Los Angeles, Emma McIntyre | Getty Images Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a vice presidential running mate after positive internal polling about

A logo is displayed next to a gas turbine at the General Electric Co. (GE) energy plant in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. General Electric Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 20. Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty Images The Trump administration may stop exporting jet engines manufactured partly

U.S. consumer sentiment figures for February came in higher than expected despite the recent outbreak of the coronavirus. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index came in at 100.9 for February. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected February consumer sentiment to come in at 99.5. Consumers’ assessment of current economic conditions were virtually unchanged from

Wall Street used to be full of traders. Buying and selling stocks or bonds used to happen on the phone, in person or in the packed trading pits in Chicago, New York and London. Prestigious investment banks boasted of trading desks the size of football fields. Now, they’re losing money on trading operations and laying

People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Roku – Shares of the streaming company jumped 5% in extended

St. Clare’s Hospital was everything to Jerry and Kathy Adach. They married after meeting at the Schenectady, New York area hospital, where both worked, in the early ’80s. Their two daughters were born there. The couple, who devoted a combined 59 years of service to the facility, had expected to retire with a good pension

DBS Group Holdings in the central business district of Singapore. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images The ongoing spread of a new coronavirus disease, recently named COVID-19, could hit the revenue of Southeast Asia’s largest bank this year, its chief executive said on Thursday. Piyush Gupta, the CEO of Singaporean bank DBS, said the

Charles Munger David A. Grogan | CNBC Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner, issued a dire warning about the future on Wednesday. “I think there are lots of troubles coming,” he said at the Los Angeles-based Daily Journal annual shareholders meeting. “There’s too much wretched excess.” Munger —

Shoppers enter a building housing a Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. store in New York. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Lyft – The ridesharing company’s stock fell more than 5% in extended trading after reporting fourth-quarter financial results that beat expectations but did not

Yunus Arakon | E+ | Getty Images Investor money ensnared in alleged Ponzi schemes has hit its highest level in a decade, leading to concern that a booming stock market and de-regulatory agenda are pushing more fraudsters to bilk unsuspecting investors. State and federal authorities uncovered 60 alleged Ponzi schemes last year with a total

Monzo co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield. Monzo Tom Blomfield doesn’t think big banks will ever undergo a digital transformation. The British fintech entrepreneur says banking behemoths like Barclays and HSBC are saddled with outdated technology and a risk-averse culture to respond to the challenge that upstarts like his digital bank, Monzo, present. “The banks really

Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park in the movie “Parasite.” Source: Parasite In “Parasite,” the South Korean thriller that took home four Oscars Sunday night, including the award for best picture, the tension between rich and poor is on full display, juxtaposing the luxury and abundance of the haves with the hardship and

Canada Goose (GOOS) – The outerwear maker reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, but also said the coronavirus outbreak is having a “material negative impact” during the current quarter. The company did add that no supply chain interruptions have occurred as a result of the virus. Hanesbrands (HBI) – The underwear

Ryan Reed became a technical support specialist at IBM after graduating last year from the tech firm’s apprenticeship program. Photo credit: IBM. Ryan Reed was having a tough time. The 38-year-old, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, had been trying for months to land a job in technology, a passion dating to his days as