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How a Chance Conversation in a Coffee Shop Launched the Multimillion-Dollar Vegan Clothing Company Om & Ah

Started in 2016 as a $500 side hustle by two English women, the ethically sourced company is expected to hit $10 million in sales by inspiring people with kindness.

A $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Is on the Way: Here's What's in It for Business Owners

The plan would provide $367 billion to assist distressed small businesses. A congressional vote is expected soon.

7 tips for keeping your business going during the coronavirus downturn

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to batter businesses, risk management expert Nicholas Bahr shares seven steps to keep your company going during the downturn.

How to Utilize Social Listening Within Your Small Business

Social listening provides real-time feedback from your audience. Find out how you can use this highly powerful tool.

SMB Disaster Preparedness: Calculating Your Cash Burn Rate

Small businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. In this article, The Blueprint shares a guide to help prepare your small business for disasters.

Bucking the trend: Brands that boomed during crises

We’re living through a global pandemic, which has left many businesses struggling to adapt, faced with new challenges such as store closures and reduced customer spending. Yet history offers us plenty of examples of companies that have found ways to survive and even thrive during massive crises – from natural disasters and economic downturns to pandemics and wars.

Dow gains after coronavirus stimulus bill reached

The Dow Jones Industrial Average built Wednesday on its historic rally from the previous session in anticipation of a coronavirus stimulus deal by Congress.

Bernanke: This is more like a natural disaster than the Depression

The ex-Fed chairman who served before and after the 2008 financial crisis said Wednesday the coronavirus economic halt is more like natural disaster than a classic depression.

Schumer: Trump businesses barred from coronavirus stimulus money

President Trump's businesses are barred from getting loans or investments under the new $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus deal, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Retailers cancel orders from Asian factories, threatening millions of jobs

Retailers in the U.S. and Europe are suspending and cancelling clothing orders, threatening millions of factory jobs in Asia just as China shows signs of recovering from the worst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump's back-to-work push pits billionaires against the doctors

Business leaders in the U.S. are getting impatient with the national economic shutdown caused by coronavirus and are increasingly echoing President Donald Trump, who says he doesn’t want “the cure to be worse than the problem.”

Would you go to the office for a $100-a-day bonus? That's WeWork's offer to some employees

WeWork is offering a $100-a-day bonus to certain employees to keep its offices running in the U.S. and Canada during the coronavirus pandemic.

3 things not to do during the stock market downturn

Knowing what not to do can help you avoid costly mistakes.

Gold faces historic squeeze with virus threatening N.Y. shortage

The gold market in New York is facing a historic squeeze as the global pandemic chokes off physical trading routes at the same time that investors are piling into the metal as a safe haven.

Hyatt announces furloughs, pay cuts as coronavirus crushes hotel industry

Hyatt Hotels announced furloughs and pay cuts as the hotel industry reels from the coronavirus pandemic. Marriott and Hilton have also done furloughs.

Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.

On a Tuesday just before Halloween in 2018, a group of federal prosecutors and agents from Texas arrived in Washington. For almost two years, they’d been investigating the opioid dispensing practices of Walmart, the largest company in the world.

Grocery stores are the coronavirus tipping point

One of the last bastions of normal American life could not escape the outbreak.