A Covid-19 rapid PCR test site sign at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Dwayne Senior | Bloomberg | Getty Images The World Health Organization on Wednesday cautioned that omicron has not spread widely among the populations most at risk, making it difficult to determine whether or
A Thai investor checks an electronic board showing stock prices. Amphol Thongmueangluang | SOPA Images| LightRocket | Getty Images Some 2021 Asia-Pacific IPOs have seen a sharp reversal in their fortunes since their strong market debuts. At the top of the list is Chinese short video company and Tiktok-rival Kuaishou, which more than doubled from
Times Square, New York Jason Dean | Moment | Getty Images From the Big Apple to the Bay Area, cities and towns across the country are expecting celebratory crowds come Friday as a pandemic-weary population looks to bid 2021 good riddance. Amid the latest, delta and omicron waves of Covid-19 infections, you might think more
A new exchange is trying to make it easier to hedge against events in politics and other areas. Kalshi, a firm founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, was designated as a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in late 2020 and officially launched in June. The exchanges offers binary, yes-or-no contracts
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images Coming off several years of outsized gains in the stock market, investors may be hoping 2022 is like deja vu again. Don’t count on it. While future performance is impossible to predict with certainty, many financial advisors expect returns will come back down to Earth. “We
Chinese stocks currently look “very, very attractive,” but are unlikely to see a quick turnaround in the next few months, according to UBS Global Wealth Management’s Kelvin Tay. “I think China is cheap. If you look at the performance of China this year, on a relative basis, it has actually underperformed by about 40% against
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 1, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday said Americans should avoid large New Year’s Eve parties as the highly transmissible omicron variant drives U.S. Covid cases
In this article DIDI VSCO Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wednesday. Victoria’s Secret — Shares of Victoria’s Secret jumped more than 10% after the intimate apparel retailer announced a $250 million accelerated share repurchase program. The company also reaffirmed fourth-quarter guidance provided in November, including an up
Trevor Williams | DigitalVision | Getty Images A majority of millennial millionaires (55%) say they are planning to sell stocks in 2022 because of potential tax changes, according to the recent CNBC Millionaire Survey. Ninety percent of millennial millionaires say they anticipate taking some sort of action in regards to their finances in the year
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 02, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images It’s time for my best guesses for next year: 2022 is a year to go big and bold, because a boom is coming. Not a boom in everything, but certainly a
FG Trade | E+ | Getty Images Vanguard investors have been grappling with partial website outages over the past several days that have blocked some customers from trade confirmations, certain statements and forms. These interruptions may cause problems for those making year-end transactions, such as required minimum distributions, as there’s a 50% penalty for missing the
The Covid-19 pandemic upended the home-buying process. Historically-low mortgage rates coupled with an inventory shortage created a red hot market, with houses selling within hours of being listed, often for well over asking price. No one knows exactly what the future has in store. But housing experts tell CNBC Make It that in 2022, buyers
Christmas shoppers in London on Dec. 23, 2021. Hasan Esen | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images LONDON — Horrific scenes seen in previous Covid-19 waves are “now history,” according to John Bell, a regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and the U.K. government’s life sciences advisor. Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, Bell
In this article AAPL VIPS RRD COIN EXTR HHC Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Apple (AAPL) – The company is once again approaching a $3 trillion market value, needing to reach $182.86 per share to achieve that milestone. Separately, Apple is closing its 12 New York City stores to indoor traffic
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images After making payments on her student loans since 2005, Karen Tongson is finally free of her debt. In November, Tongson, an English and gender studies professor, signed into her loan account and discovered her balance had fallen from $47,000 to $0, thanks to
A worker fulfills orders at a Gorillas “dark store” in London’s trendy Shoreditch district on May 20, 2021. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — A battle to find space powering the ultrafast grocery delivery boom is pushing up rents in parts of London’s commercial property sector. Companies like Getir, Gorillas and Zapp,
Healthcare workers prepare Covid-19 tests at a Nomi Health testing site in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Dan Brouillette | Bloomberg | Getty Images An investigation into a cluster of omicron infections in Nebraska suggests the heavily mutated variant has a shorter incubation period and causes similar or milder symptoms compared to past
A trader works on the trading floor on the last day of trading before Christmas at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 23, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters U.S. stock futures opened flat Tuesday night following a mixed session as traders continued to assess the threat of the
A trader blows bubble gum during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 1, 2019, in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images If the market is in an everything bubble, wealthy Americans are headed into 2022 saying they don’t really want much more — of anything, according
Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship on November 22, 2021 in Bayonne, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Morgan Stanley said most acute supply chain disruptions are already easing and will be more fully resolved within the first half of 2022. That’s the base case the investment bank laid out in a recent