No ‘pivot’ in inflation fight, but central bankers are easing up
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Central banks in Europe on Thursday joined the US Federal Reserve in slowing down the pace of interest rate hikes as…
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Elon Musk sells another 22 million Tesla shares for $3.6 billion
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk just sold another 22 million shares of Tesla, raising $3.6 billion. Musk sold the shares on Monday, Tuesday…
Continue Reading Australia passes law to cap energy prices against ‘wartime whims’
By Angus Watson, CNN Australia’s parliament passed a new law Thursday capping its domestic gas price and some states’ coal prices, a move…
Continue Reading China’s economy plunged before major Covid policy shift. A rebound may be months away
By Laura He, CNN The end of pandemic restrictions in China will eventually usher in a strong economic rebound as the country learns to live with the…
Continue Reading British nurses launch historic strike, as pay and staffing crises threaten the NHS
By Rob Picheta, CNN Nurses across much of the UK launched a historic strike on Thursday, as they walked out of hospitals and onto picket lines after…
Continue Reading Democratic lawmakers urge Meta not to restore Trump’s account in January
By Brian Fung, CNN Two Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged Meta to maintain Donald Trump’s suspension from its platforms when it revisits…
Continue Reading Taco Bell may add fries to its menu permanently to compete with McDonald’s
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Taco Bell knows you want fries with that. Especially during lunch. To compete with rivals such as McDonald’s…
Continue Reading Who’s manning the train? Railroads want a one-person crew
CNN By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN When a freight train travels across the country, two people are in the cab of the locomotive working…
Continue Reading Who’s manning the train? Railroads want a one-person crew
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN When a freight train travels across the country, two people are in the cab of the locomotive working to…
Continue Reading New home sales rose in November, defying expectations
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anna Bahney, CNN Business New home sales were up in November from the month before, even as prices remained elevated and buyers…
Continue Reading What to do about the highest interest rate in 15 years
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN In its last policymaking meeting of the year, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the…
Continue Reading Parents of Sam Bankman-Fried face scrutiny over their roles in FTX
By Allison Morrow, CNN Sam Bankman-Fried’s multibillion-dollar crypto empire was run primarily by “grossly inexperienced and…
Continue Reading The Washington Post will conduct layoffs, its publisher says at contentious town hall
By Oliver Darcy, CNN The Washington Post will conduct layoffs in the coming year as it reorients itself for the future and reinvests in other areas,…
Continue Reading An electric scooter company just pulled off Russia’s only IPO of the year
By Julia Horowitz, CNN An electric scooter service just became the only company to pull off an initial public offering in Russia this year. Whoosh,…
Continue Reading Attention procrastinators: Drop-dead holiday shipping deadlines are coming soon
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN It happens every year — the mad dash to ship holiday gifts to get them to loved ones on time. And it bears repeating,…
Continue Reading Bernard Arnault just became the world’s richest person. So who is he?
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Bernard Arnault, the chairman of French luxury goods giant LVMH, has just become the first European to top Bloomberg’s list…
Continue Reading Investors are hoping for the economic tide to turn. The wait may soon be over
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN It’s been a harrowing year for markets and investors are tired. Months of sky-rocketing inflation and interest rates,…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren unveils bipartisan bill to crack down on crypto money laundering
By Matt Egan, CNN As federal prosecutors seek to imprison former crypto darling Sam Bankman-Fried, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is attempting to push…
Continue Reading Why people in China are panic buying canned yellow peaches as Covid surges
By Laura He and Jennie Chen, CNN An unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China has sparked panic buying of fever medicines, pain killers, and even…
Continue Reading Why people in China are panic buying canned yellow peaches as Covid surges
CNN By Laura He and Jennie Chen, CNN An unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China has sparked panic buying of fever medicines, pain killers, and…
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