House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., September 28, 2020. Tom Williams | CQ Appeal, Inc. | Getty Images Parliament voted Monday to increase the second round of federal direct payments to $ 2,000 as Democrats accept President Donald Trump’s demands to put more money in Americans’ pockets. The move would increase stimulus controls under the coronavirus…

Wells Fargo Securities’s Chris Harvey has released the bank’s top 10 predictions for the next year. # 1 on his list: Tesla becomes the new AOL. “It reminded us so much of 1998 – the late 1990s,” the company’s head of equity strategy told CNBC’s Trading Nation last week. “AOL, like Tesla, had breakthrough technology…

The graph shows the weekly US restaurants Source: UBS Evidence Lab U.S. restaurant revenue declines as take-out and delivery contracts fail to make up for lost sales. UBS Evidence Lab found that restaurant sales fell 69% for the week ended November 29. In the same week, takeaway sales and delivery increased 59%. However, total restaurant…

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at the Queen Theater on December 22, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware before the holidays. Speaking before the Christmas break, Biden called the $ 900 billion coronavirus aid bill passed by Congress on Monday as a start and insisted on more post-inaugural economic relief. Joshua Roberts | Getty Images The brother of…

Debris lies on the street near an explosion site in the Second and Commerce area of ​​Nashville, Tennessee, the United States, on December 25, 2020. Elliott Anderson | via Reuters Investigators received more than 500 tips about the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville, but failed to establish the bomber’s identity, officials said on Saturday afternoon.…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a press conference at 10 Downing Street in central London on December 24, 2020 to brief the nation on the post-Brexit trade deal. Paul Grover | AFP | Getty Images LONDON – The UK and the European Union struck new Brexit trade deals on Thursday, more than four…

Congress officially began on Thursday to send a massive Covid-19 aid deal and state funding package to President Donald Trump, who has not yet said whether he will sign it. The Covid relief effort includes roughly $ 900 billion in spending on programs to help businesses and individuals suffering from the recession caused by the…

Traders work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE At the end of trading next Thursday, the bull market will be ready to run through 2021, but likely at a slower pace. January is the month Wall Street tradition says sets the tone for the year – “this is January, this…

Patrick Pleul / Image Alliance via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s opposition to a $ 900 billion coronavirus bailout package, largely passed by U.S. lawmakers late Monday, jeopardizes the first major climate change piece of legislation to have received Congress approval in about a decade. Trump has threatened a veto of the stimulus package, which…

Alibaba Group’s signage will be displayed during the company’s December 11th Global Shopping Festival on November 11, 2020 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING – Alibaba’s shares fell for prolonged periods in both Hong Kong and U.S. trading as reports surfaced that the Chinese government is conducting an anti-monopoly investigation into…