CBS may have aired the lowest-rated Super Bowl since 2007 last Sunday, but the network raked in $545 million in ad revenue from the linear broadcast, a record haul for the game. The figure is an estimate by research firm Kantar, which analyzed ads from the opening kickoff through the on-field trophy presentation, a span of about four and a […]

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday pressed business leaders to back his $1.9 trillion economic aid package, but received no public declarations of support for a $15 minimum wage that is part of the legislation and that the president has said is vital to providing relief for struggling Americans. Mr. Biden hosted a group including the top executives of Walmart, […]

SINGAPORE – Shuttered borders and a sluggish travel market have forced Singapore Airlines (SIA) to delay its aircraft delivery schedule and tweak its orders. The airline said on Tuesday (Feb 9) that it had reached agreements with plane-makers Boeing and Airbus to defer aircraft deliveries amounting to more than $4 billion of capital expenditure between the 2020/21 and 2022/23 financial […]

Last year, Suze Orman gave advice to anyone struggling during the pandemic: Put your savings first.  She advised anyone with extra cash to save it above all else, even paying off credit card debt. Her advice nearly a year later is still largely the same.  Set up a free virtual consultation with a Financial Advisor to see how you can […]

(Reuters) – The Dow and the S&P 500 eased from record highs on Tuesday as investors digested recent gains while awaiting progress in passing a proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus plan.FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) in New York, NY, U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File PhotoThe tech-heavy Nasdaq, on the other hand, […]

After a terrible year for oil companies because of the pandemic, Total of France reported what analysts said were relatively good financial results. For the fourth quarter of 2020, Total reported that adjusted net income, a metric followed by investors, declined by 59 percent compared with the period a year earlier, to $1.3 billion. Profit for 2020 declined by 66 […]

Deflating a housing bubble is a delicate task. Let too much air out and you risk crashing the market, something no government wants to do considering the size of the bubble that’s evident in New Zealand at the moment. Use the wrong instrument and you risk making it even harder for first-home buyers to purchase their own property. Some experts […]

Although investor Kevin O'Leary says bitcoin is a "giant nothing-burger" and has compared it to gambling, he owns some, along with a few other cryptocurrencies. "I have a crypto wallet," says O'Leary, which he created on Coinbase in 2017. At the time, "I was lecturing at Harvard Business School, and the students challenged me to be an investor in crypto. […]

SINGAPORE – The market for resale condominiums and private apartments continued to strengthen in January, with sales volume rising and prices climbing for the sixth straight month. Observers said home buyers were attracted to these properties as they found them more affordable than new launches. Sentiments were also buoyed by prospects of economic recovery. Resale prices rose 1.2 per cent […]