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Intuit Warns of Revenue Hit From Virus Crisis

Gordon B. Johnson 2 weeks ago

Intuit shares fell in right after-hours investing Thursday right after the tax-preparation software package company forecast profits would decline sharply in the third quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Intuit mentioned it anticipated profits to fall about 8% to involving $2.99 billion and $three billion, citing the detrimental affect of COVID-19 on small business enterprise clients and the extension of the tax submitting deadline to July fifteen, which will change profits to the fourth quarter.

The firm had previously guided for profits to improve 10% to eleven% to involving $three.6 billion and $three.sixty two billion.

Intuit’s shares dropped 2.6% to

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Businessman Becomes Chief Undertaker in Ecuadorean City Hit by Coronavirus

Gordon B. Johnson 3 weeks ago

Ecuadorean businessman Jorge Wated has operate every thing from the national growth lender to the country’s version of Pottery Barn, but currently he’s used his administration techniques to rely and bury bodies.

However one particular of South America’s smallest nations, Ecuador has the continent’s next-optimum range of Covid-19 deaths following Brazil. Practically three-quarters of the victims lived in or close to the steamy Pacific port of Guayaquil, whose mayor in comparison the devastation to “a Hiroshima bomb” hitting the metropolis.

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Jobless Claims Hit Record 22M Over Four Weeks

Gordon B. Johnson 1 month ago

U.S. weekly jobless claims soared for a third straight week as the coronavirus pandemic properly wiped out all the positions additional to the overall economy considering that the Wonderful Economic downturn.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that 5.two million Us residents filed very first-time claims for unemployment insurance policy in the week that finished April eleven.

Claims came in under the file of six.615 million for the week of April 4 but brought the four-week overall to a file 22.03 million considering that social distancing measures took result. The overall economy experienced additional 22 million positions considering that the Wonderful

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Covid-19 lockdown to hit consumer durable firms; FY21 earnings estimate cut

Gordon B. Johnson 1 month ago


The nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is expected to significantly hit the consumer durable companies such as Havells India, Voltas, and Crompton Greaves CE as the demand for the summer season products like room air conditioners (RAC), coolers and fans will be severely impacted.


That apart, lower infra spending since the government’s top-most priority, at present, is to battle the pandemic, may also impact the mechanical, engineering and plumbing (MEP) business of the companies. Further, a prolonged slowdown in the real estate sector, muted spending from the private sector and tight

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