Month: April 2020

Despite outrage on Main Street and new pressure from the Treasury Department this week, several publicly traded companies that received payroll relief funds from the Small Business Administration oppose demands to return the cash. The companies said the Paycheck Protection Program loans have allowed them to keep employees on payroll and that they disagree with
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Wall Street looks vulnerable to another pullback here as the post-Covid-19 rebound capped out near a 50% retracement of the initial selloff and has been sliding sideways for weeks. To be sure, there are plenty of things to be worried about: Evidence of a prolonged economic shutdown, chaos in the energy markets, and concerns a
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A woman wearing a face mask at her house. Robin Utrecht | Echoes Wire | Barcroft Media via Getty Images As the economy shut down, businesses diverted spending to technology, while cutting back more broadly on other outlays including their payments to suppliers, according to data tracking business-to-business spending.  Even before the state shutdowns took
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Steven Eisman, senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman. Katie Rooney | CNBC Renowned investor Steve Eisman said Thursday U.S. banks are an attractive investment following the coronavirus-induced market sell-off. “I actually think long-term, the best cyclical play out there are the very large banks,” Eisman, senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, told CNBC’s “Fast Money.”
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