Average US price of gas jumps by 5 cents over past 2 weeks
A recent survey reports the average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped by 5 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.49 per gallon.…
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American Airlines increases flight attendant holiday pay after operational meltdown
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business American Airlines is giving flight attendants who work during the holidays a one-time holiday pay premium, the…
Continue ReadingElon Musk asks Twitter if he should sell some of his Tesla stock
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Elon Musk says he’ll let Twitter users decide if he should sell 10% of the 170.5 million shares he holds in…
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Troubling economy shows U.S. trade deficit hits record high
A government report released Thursday shows the U.S. trade deficit jumped to a record high in…
Continue ReadingFord is first major US automaker to mandate vaccines
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Ford will mandate vaccines for most of its 32,000 US salaried employees, a spokesperson for the company…
Continue ReadingWhite Castle thinks a robot can make better french fries
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business It’s harder than you might think to deliver french fries that aren’t too…
Continue ReadingDow closes above 36,000 for the first time
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 36,000 mark for the first time Tuesday following a gain of about…
Continue ReadingZillow to exit its home buying business, cut 25% of staff
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Zillow is getting out of the iBuying business and will shut down its Zillow Offers division, resulting in a 25%…
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Job experts say strike while the iron is hot
According to career experts if job listings were a crop the harvest would be ripe for the picking. Across the board, employers are in desperate need…
Continue ReadingBig Oil is crushing it as oil prices boom
CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Profits soared at the nation’s two largest oil companies, as ExxonMobil and Chevron both benefited from the…
Continue ReadingSupply chain nightmares are doing what regulators and rivals can’t: Slow Amazon down
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Amazon’s rise has been relentless for more than a decade, with regulators and rivals alike failing to slow…
Continue ReadingThe stock market was more treat than trick in October
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business October may be notorious for big market crashes. But this month was more of a Rocktober than…
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U.S. economy falls short of expectations, only makes a 2% comeback
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports the economy grew at an annualized rate of just 2% in the third quarter of the…
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How much the typical home cost in your state in 1950
Orchard analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to find the 1950 median home values for every state plus Washington…
Continue ReadingHigh oil prices are unlikely to last, Chevron CFO tells CNN
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Oil prices are unlikely to stay elevated for long, Chevron’s chief financial officer told CNN. “This feels…
Continue ReadingCannabis is one industry that’s actually coming out of Covid even stronger
CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business When members of the cannabis industry descended upon Las Vegas last week for the biggest trade show in the…
Continue Reading‘We are struggling every day’: Supply chain crunch threatens to leave some of the neediest Americans without enough to eat
By Gabe Cohen, CNN The free food delivery that arrives at Beth Greenlee’s door each week is much more than an endpoint of the US supply chain.…
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Facebook changes its company name to Meta
Facebook is changing its company name to Meta as it confronts wide-ranging scrutiny of the real-world harms from its various platforms after a…
Continue ReadingChristmas is going to be great for stores, if their names are Walmart or Target
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business It’ll be a very merry Christmas for America’s biggest retailers. Retail sales in November and…
Continue ReadingNew dads are ‘losers’ if they take 6 months paternity leave, prominent venture capitalist says
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business A prominent venture capitalist is under fire for calling new dads “losers” if they take months of…
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