The seal of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hangs on a podium during an IRS Criminal Investigation 100th year anniversary event at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 1, 2019. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg An unlikely group counts itself among the recipients of the coronavirus stimulus checks: the
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Procter & Gamble on Friday reported that its fiscal third-quarter U.S. sales surged 10% as consumers stocked up on staples like Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towels ahead of the coronavirus outbreak. But the consumer products giant cut its revenue forecast for fiscal 2020, citing headwinds from foreign currency. Shares of the company rose less
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A box containing a 5-minute test for COVID-19 from Abbott Laboratories is pictured during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Abbott Laboratories says it is ramping up production of its coronavirus test
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A Gilead Sciences office is shown in Foster City, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Gilead Sciences shares surged by more than 15% in after-hours trading Thursday after details leaked of a closely watched clinical trial of the company’s antiviral drug Remdesivir appeared to show promising results in treating Covid-19. The University
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Morgan Stanley on Thursday posted first-quarter profit that missed analysts’ expectations and warned that a sole bright spot for the industry, robust trading results, may prove to be fleeting. The bank said in a release that earnings dropped 30% to $1.7 billion, or $1.01 a share, compared with the $1.14 estimate of analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. Companywide
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Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., pauses ahead of a Bloomberg Television interview at the Blackrock Inc. wealth symposium in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday, March 7, 2019 Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg via Getty Images Larry Fink, co-founder of the world’s biggest money management firm, told CNBC on Thursday the stock market’s coronavirus low
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Shoppers exit a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bed Bath & Beyond reported Wednesday fiscal fourth-quarter results that topped analysts’ estimates, but warned it could not make predictions for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said that despite widespread, temporary store closures, it still
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Earnings season may look ugly, but Crossmark’s Global Investments’ Victoria Fernandez isn’t getting discouraged. She believes there are opportunities in the coronavirus battered market. “We’ve seen some already. If you look at some of the health care names — UnitedHealth gave a good report,” the firm’s chief market strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. 
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The World Health Organization is turning to other countries to help fill any gaps in financing its Covid-19 response work after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States would withhold contributions. “The United States of America has been a long-standing and generous friend to the WHO and we hope it will continue to be
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Bank of America said Wednesday that first-quarter profit slumped 45% as the company set aside $3.6 billion for loan-loss reserves because of the coronavirus pandemic.  The bank posted profit of $4.01 billion, or 40 cents a share, compared with the 46 cent estimate of analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. Revenue of $22.8 billion essentially matched expectations, and
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David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, September 25, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Goldman Sachs reported first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Wednesday. Goldman Sachs earned $3.11 a share in the first quarter with revenue of $8.74 billion. Goldman shares are lower by 1.6% in
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Girl wearing mask and gloves in grocery store Phynart Studio New data shows the government’s coronavirus stimulus checks are providing much-needed relief to Americans struggling with day-to-day living costs. Data compiled by digital bank Current found members who received stimulus payments over the past five days spent 16% of the money on food, including takeout
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Yuka Ioroi, co-owner of Cassava restaurant on Balboa Street in San Francisco manages take-out orders on April 8, 2020. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Nearly 7.5 million small businesses are at risk of closing their doors permanently over the next several months if the coronavirus pandemic persists, according to a survey. Around two-thirds
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