Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. will award special bonuses to employees under certain income thresholds as it seeks to stem the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In the US, employees who make $60,000 or less a year in base salary will receive a $1,000 payment, Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat told employees in a memo. For workers based outside the US, ...

Bloomberg The good times for Europe’s bedraggled investment banks came and went in a matter of weeks. Heightened volatility and market turmoil on the back of the coronavirus led to record trading volumes for investment banks in the first quarter, especially in rates, equities and currencies, Citigroup Inc. analysts led by Andrew Coombs wrote in a note to clients. However, ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is joining peers in awarding extra payments to employees as the bank deals with the coronavirus pandemic. Payments go to workers who earn base compensation of less than $100,000 and were employed by Wells Fargo for all of 2019, the San Francisco-based lender said in a statement. Eligible full-time employees will get $600 before taxes ...

Bloomberg Amazon, Walmart, EBay and other large online sellers were urged by state law enforcement officials to crack down on price gouging that preys on panic over the coronavirus pandemic amid surging complaints by consumers. The attorneys general of New York and California called on the companies to take action as 6,000 complaints have poured in to authorities across the ...

Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, the indebted low-cost carrier fighting for survival, bought itself some time as it managed to unlock the first, tiny slice of its state aid package. The carrier’s shares jumped as much as 25% when trading started in Oslo on Tuesday, though overall the stock is still down about 75% this year. Two Nordic banks will ...

Bloomberg Neiman Marcus Group Inc, the luxury retailer that’s been struggling to ease its $4.3 billion debt load, is talking with lenders about filing for bankruptcy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. No formal decisions have been made, but Neiman Marcus has held initial talks with lenders about a potential bankruptcy loan that would keep the company running ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co is shutting down its Seattle-area manufacturing hub for two weeks after a worker died of coronavirus complications, adding to a wave of plant closings sweeping the globe as the aviation industry navigates the biggest disruption in decades. Activity at the factories will start winding down and come to a halt on March 25, Boeing said in a ...

Bloomberg US airlines are drafting plans for a potential voluntary shutdown of virtually all passenger flights as government agencies also consider ordering a similar move, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unidentified industry and federal officials. No final decisions have been made by the airlines or White House, but airlines would generally favour a government order, WSJ cites an industry ...

Bloomberg Modell’s Sporting Goods halted its going-out-of-business sales as customers shelter at home and states order most merchants to close. The bankrupt retailer stopped liquidation sales and closed all stores as of March 21, CEO Mitchell Modell said. It plans to resume once the bans are lifted, he said. Retailers are pausing store-closing sales as a growing number of states and ...

Few words are more overused in our debates than “crisis”. We have many — the education crisis, the inequality crisis and the environmental crisis, to name just a few. The word suggests an impending calamity unless we take instant action. The reality is that most crises are not calamities. They’re stubborn problems that, for one reason or another, defy a ...