Tag: Finance

FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 16, 2009, customers use ATM machines at a Bank of America branch office in Boston. The FDIC reported that the U.S. banking industry earned $37.2 billion in the first quarter of 2014, down from $40.3 billion in the same period in 2013. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)

SBA to prioritize smaller bank lenders temporarily over bigger ones in pandemic relief

Nihal Krishan · April 29, 2020 6:55 pm

Semi-automatic handguns are displayed at Duke's Sport Shop, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

GOP senators warn banks over rejecting small business loans for guns, coal, and other industries targeted by liberals

Kerry Picket · April 29, 2020 4:56 pm

CEO of world’s largest pork processor warns of meat shortages after coronavirus-stricken plant shuts down

Madison Dibble · April 13, 2020 5:10 pm

Bill Gates, chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the "Africa Leadership Meeting - Investing in Health Outcomes" held at a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019.

Bill Gates urges national shutdown to 'save lives'

John Gage · April 1, 2020 6:28 pm

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

'A drop in the bucket': Andrew Cuomo calls $2 trillion relief bill 'terrible' for New York

John Gage · March 25, 2020 1:23 pm

FILE- This March 27, 2009, file photo, shows the Federal Reserve Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. With an eye on the âfiscal cliff,â the Federal Reserve is expected to announce a new bond-buying plan to support the U.S. economy on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012.

Fed moves to backstop municipal bonds as state and city finances are strained by pandemic

Jay Heflin · March 20, 2020 3:38 pm

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2013 file photo shows the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington. Minutes of the Fed's discussion at its July 29-30, 2014 meeting show that some officials thought the economy was improving enough that the Fed would need "to call for a relatively prompt move" toward reducing the support it has been providing. Otherwise, they felt the Fed risked overshooting its targets for unemployment and inflation. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Fed relaunches crisis-era lending program to aid companies facing pandemic credit crunch

Jay Heflin · March 17, 2020 3:07 pm

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington.

CNBC analyst likens Trump autographing market chart to George W. Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' moment

John Gage · March 16, 2020 7:24 pm

Specialist John Parisi works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. U.S. stocks slumped broadly on Wall Street Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 400 points and extending the market's recent string of losses.

Market futures plunge as dramatic Fed action fails to reassure investors

Joseph Lawler · March 15, 2020 11:31 pm

Mnuchin predicts big economic bounce back after pandemic

Joseph Lawler · March 15, 2020 2:39 pm

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington.

Dow rises more than 1,000 points as Trump declares national emergency

John Gage · March 13, 2020 8:36 pm

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde talks to German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz during a meeting of European Union Finance Ministers in Eurogroup format at the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020.

‘Great financial crisis’: European Central Bank president warns of market collapse mirroring 2008

Spencer Neale · March 11, 2020 4:01 pm