stimulus package

More than three million people have signed a Change.org petition calling for a $2,000 stimulus check for every American. CNBC first reported the story on Monday when the petition officially crossed 3,000,000 signatures. What You Need To Know: Stephanie Bonin and her husband Keith Arnold created the...

Lawmakers are reaching out to telecom giants like AT&T Inc (NYSE: T), Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), and Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) to get a fair estimate of the number of Americans who need broadband stimulus aid, reports ...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. After months of legislative litigation and partisan bickering, Congress seems to have finally passed a new $900 billion relief package...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Tuesday a massive relief and federal spending package passed by Congress late Monday that authorizes major port expansion projects and opens $1 billion in funds for harbor maintenance dredging. The port funding legislation, the biennial Water Resources...

The Republican-controlled U.S Senate passed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation with an overwhelming majority vote of 92-6 Monday night. The legislation includes the much-awaited $900 billion COVID-19 aid package and a $1.4 trillion measure to fund the government through...

This week the focus will shift from retailers reporting earnings to coronavirus vaccine rollout, economic data, and central bank activity. The week begins kind of slow for us here in the U.S. in terms of numbers scheduled for release, but things pick up at a rapid rate starting Tuesday. Keep an eye...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The final weeks of 2020 are upon us, though the end of the troubled year may be of little consolation to the nation’s small business...

First, the focus continues to be on the potential for another stimulus bill. Over the weekend, President Trump said he wanted to help businesses and that he is ready to go, Nancy Pelosi said the 1.8 trillion dollar deal Democrats are being offered is grossly inadequate, and Neel Kashkari was clear...

U.S. stock futures rose early Friday as Wall Street continued to search for clarity surrounding a new potential stimulus bill. The S&P 500 is on track for gains of 3% this week, but the optimism on whether a stimulus bill gets passed has traders still concerned. Optimism for stimulus, whether...

Editor’s note: JJ Kinahan, Chief Market Strategist at TD Ameritrade, is out of the office this week.  (Thursday Market Open) Call it a move in the right direction.  After two weeks creeping higher, new unemployment claims fell substantially last week and might help the market...

“Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban believes the market is overvalued as coronavirus induced uncertainty over consumer spending persists. The Missing Demand Attired in a Dallas Mavericks t-shirt, Cuban told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” program that the stock market is overvalued...

Good day, The WorkHound driver feedback platform keeps truckers and company management in sync to improve driver retention rates. During the coronavirus emergency, the system offers insights into the way drivers feel about  COVID-19. According to the Workhound team, the virus now comprises a...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will receive a $10 billion line of credit under the U.S. Senate's $2.1 trillion coronavirus economic relief legislation passed late on the evening of March 25, disappointing those who hoped USPS would receive as much as $25 billion in direct aid and the forgiveness of...

The weekly jobless claims figures aren’t always the most closely watched economic data among Wall Street traders and investors. But today’s are a different story. This morning, the Department of Labor said 3.28 million people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits in the week...

The U.S. Senate late Wednesday passed a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue bill that includes almost $60 billion in aid for the airline industry, including all-cargo carriers, and $10 billion for airports, primarily to preserve jobs until economic activity returns to normal. The money comes with...