Goldman Sachs is asking its employees in the United States to work from home for the next couple of weeks.Credit…Andrew Kelly/Reuters Goldman Sachs told its U.S. employees on Sunday to work from home for the first two weeks of the year, joining Wall Street competitors that had already given similar instructions as coronavirus cases have […]
That didn’t happen. Polls found the public roughly divided over whether the program should be extended, with opinions splitting along partisan and generational lines. And the expanded tax credit failed to win over the individual whose opinion mattered most: Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, who cited concerns over the cost and structure […]
What’s Up? (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) Waiting for a Flight It was a bad week for anyone with a flight to catch. With staff shortages partially driven by the spread of the Omicron variant, many airlines began canceling flights the day before Christmas, and the cancellations continued during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. […]
“He kept shouting, ‘The governor said we no longer have to wear masks,’” Mr. O’Brien said. The woman’s response — that they were still required in places with a certain number of workers — only made him angrier. Finally, the owner arrived and “told the customer never to return,” Mr. O’Brien said. It’s not just […]
Mr. Hoffman hasn’t bought anything else from the site, but he is open to it for the first time. “If I needed a refill on a medicine, and they had a very good price, I guess I can see using their pharmacy,” he said. “I would also be open to other kinds of tests, like […]
The Republican chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who was appointed by former President Donald J. Trump, said on Friday that she was cutting short her term after a clash with Democratic banking regulators. Jelena McWilliams, who started a five-year term as chair in June 2018, will resign effective Feb. 4, she wrote in […]
Francis Creighton, the president and chief executive of the Consumer Data Industry Association, a trade group for the credit reporting industry, said it was important to have pay-later loans reflected on credit reports so lenders could have a true picture of a loan applicant’s overall credit profile. But because the loans are structured differently from […]
Airlines may have thought their pandemic troubles were behind them in the fall as a coronavirus wave subsided and travelers increasingly took to the skies. But a new virus surge and winter storms have left the carriers and their passengers in a holiday mess. Heading into the New Year’s weekend, when return flights will produce […]
At a time when most policies aimed at helping parents, especially women — like paid parental leave and child care support — are stalling out or facing resistance, the bans on salary history have been far less controversial, often garnering bipartisan support, said Andrea Johnson, director of state policy for the Workplace Justice team and […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jurors ended a sixth day of deliberations without a verdict on Wednesday in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos. Ms. Holmes, 37, faces two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud on allegations that she deceived investors, patients […]
