CNBC Top Stories

For college graduates the future is full of new possibilities — an exciting career, a salary, maybe even a new car or place to live. But to reach these milestones, good credit is a must. Here are some solid tips to quickly achieve a stellar score.

Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday.

Buying penny stocks like Hertz can offer a short-term upside, but such speculative investments are rarely worth the risk.

Snapchat took down its Juneteenth filter, which prompted users to smile in order to break chains, after being called out by critics for being tone deaf. The company said it was not approved through its review process.

More politicians and consumer advocates are warning that Americans were already struggling with their student loans before the country fell into a recession, and that without deeper relief, millions of borrowers will face financial ruin.

The rally comes amid a nationwide protest movement against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death.

"Clearly, we have not succeeded in getting the public as a whole uniformly to respond in a way that is a sound scientific, public health and medical situation," he says.

As the drive for racial equality and justice hits big corporations, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says the tech company is updating its diversity policy, mandating hiring managers interview at least one minority candidate for any open position.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street" that support from the U.S. central bank was supporting stocks that might otherwise plunge.

Businesses are pushing for liability protections, while labor groups say it could prevent workers from holding bad employers accountable.

For the past few weeks, Cedric Bobo, a former investment executive with the Carlyle Group, has spent the better part of his days on video calls, welcoming mostly Black and Hispanic students to paid summer internship programs.

Ford and Fiat Chrysler expect to return to pre-coronavirus pandemic production schedules at their U.S. plants on Monday.

Police detectives are on the hunt for two burglars who stole £50,000 ($61,825) worth of saffron from a warehouse in east London.

"I think people's increased risk is there. People ought to be wearing masks in those situations," Republican Sen. John Barrasso told CNBC.

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred rejected the players union proposal of a 70-game season as both sides continue to its battle to start the 2020 season suspended by Covid-19.

Black doctors are pushing for anti-bias training in medicine to improve health inequity

"We're not shutting down. We're going to go forward ... We're not rolling back," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news briefing Tuesday. "You have to have society function."

As the Main Street lending facility wraps up its first full week of operation, Rosengren reported brisk interest on the borrowing side amid what looks like tepid interest from banks thus far.

Going-out-of-business sales are getting ready to be, well, basically everywhere this summer.

Coronavirus lockdown orders spurred sales for DoorDash, placing the food-delivery service well above rivals GrubHub and UberEats. This week it raised $400 million in equity, boosting its valuation to $16 billion. It made CNBC's 2020 Disruptor 50 list, revealed Tuesday.