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By Rhea Mogul, CNN A court in southern India on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years in prison in a ruling that found he abused his wife over their wedding dowry, leading to her death by suicide. The district court in Kerala state found Kiran Kumar guilty under India’s “dowry death” law, which allows

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have marked the start of “a third world war,” and Russian President Vladimir Putin must be defeated “as soon as possible” if the world wants to preserve civilization. That was the stark message that Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist George Soros delivered on Tuesday to attendees

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business This summer has long been forecast as a potential boom time for the travel industry. Retailers and economists have been talking a lot about how consumers are starting to buy less stuff and are instead spending more on vacations and other experiences. But that’s not the story the

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business First Coca-Cola cut Tab, Odwalla and Zico coconut water. Now, Honest Tea is getting axed. “The Honest teas product line will be phased out of The Coca-Cola Company’s beverage portfolio at the end of 2022,” the company said in a statement Monday, noting that the Honest Kids line, which is

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business “It’s like the O.J. Simpson trial but with technology.” That’s what Autumn Witbeck, a stay-at-home mother in Utah, told the Wall Street Journal while explaining the public’s fascination with the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. The Journal wrote an entire story about the hairstyles on display in the courtroom — which

By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Millions of employees started working remotely after the pandemic first took hold in 2020. But now, more people are returning to the office — and they’re being greeted by much higher prices for just about everything. Food. Commuting. Daycare. Rising gas prices and soaring inflation have made going back to

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Wall Street was not in a particularly social mood Tuesday. Social media stocks plummeted following an ominous earnings warning from Snapchat’s parent company. Shares of Snap plunged more than 40% Tuesday and hit their lowest level since March 2020, just after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States.

By Allison Morrow, CNN Business One of the many buzzwords percolating around Davos this week is “fragmentation,” the force economists there warned could have “devastating human consequences.” By “fragmentation,” they are referring to a breakdown of the kind of free-wheeling, border-crossing trade and investment that’s defined the global economic order over the past three decades.

By Reuters Snap Inc said the economy had worsened faster than expected in the last month and the social media company slashed its quarterly forecast, triggering an after-hours sell-off. Since late April, “the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and faster than anticipated. As a result, we believe it is likely that we will report revenue

By Sahar Akbarzai and Michelle Toh, CNN Business Airbnb will shut down its listings in China after two years of lockdowns in the country “with no end in sight,” according to a source familiar with the matter. The home-sharing company made the decision over a decline in business in the world’s second largest economy, and

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Things were looking up for most Americans at the end of last year, with many households reporting their financial situation was better than at any other time since 2013. Nearly 7 out of 10 Americans surveyed by the Federal Reserve said they had the cash or cash equivalents on hand

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Stablecoins are unstable. Cryptocurrencies don’t act like currency. Does digital money ever stand a chance of winning the establishment’s embrace? With the prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum and so-called stablecoins like Luna and TerraUSD plunging in value and hurting many investors in the process, that seems

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business What goes up must come down, and what goes bull must go bear. The conventional wisdom is that a bit of market madness is inevitable, cyclical and should give investors a potential buying opportunity. But unfortunately this downswing doesn’t appear to be the devil we know. Markets are contending with

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he’s “devastated” about the shooting Sunday on a New York City subway train that left one of his employees dead. Solomon said the victim, Daniel Enriquez of Brooklyn, was a “beloved member” of the investment bank for nine years and that he “epitomized our

By Allison Morrow, CNN Business In early 2021, in the midst of speculative stock market euphoria, a pair of day traders went viral on TikTok with a video explaining their winning strategy. “I see a stock going up and I buy it. And I just watch it until it stops going up, and I sell

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Germany’s frustration over some European countries’ resistance to an embargo of Russia’s oil was laid bare on Monday. “We have seen the worst of Europe [in] that only some states are blocking the development,” Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister, told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Shareholders voted Monday in favor of Didi’s plan to quit the New York Stock Exchange less than a year after China’s largest ride-hailing firm launched its $4.4 billion initial public offering. Just days after Didi’s Wall Street debut last summer, Chinese authorities banned the service from app stores in the

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The global economy is being brought to the edge of a precipice by crisis upon crisis. As the first World Economic Forum to be held in person since 2020 opened in Davos, Switzerland on Monday, the International Monetary Fund said the economy faces “perhaps its biggest test since the Second

By Matt Egan, CNN The White House is considering an emergency declaration that would enable President Joe Biden to release diesel from a rarely used stockpile in a bid to address a major supply crunch, a senior White House official told CNN. The deliberations about tapping the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve underscore the level

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic has been good for the wallets of the wealthy. Some 573 people have joined the billionaire ranks since 2020, bringing the worldwide total to 2,668, according to an analysis released by Oxfam on Sunday. That means a new billionaire was minted about every 30 hours, on average, so

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Elon Musk is going after Insider for publishing a story alleging he sexually harassed a flight attendant on a SpaceX corporate jet in 2016 — but the news outlet’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson is standing by his team’s reporting. Musk tweeted Friday that his company Tesla is building a “hardcore

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Industry insiders have long feared a situation just like this: American parents are desperately seeking adequate supply of formula for their infants during a nationwide shortage. The formula shortage has exposed an inflexible industry dominated by just three to four large players that own a majority of formula production in

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The new Nissan Z is one of the most important models in the car maker’s recent history — not for any concrete business reason (two-seat sports cars aren’t big sellers), but because even a car company needs a soul. Nissan’s been through some rough times in the past four or

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business To badly misquote John Lennon: Everybody’s talking about inflation, stagflation, capitulation, globalization, stagnation, this-ation, that-ation, -ation, -ation, -ation. All we are saying is please make it end. Americans view inflation, which is near 40-year highs, as the top problem facing the country today by a very wide margin. No other

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The last time top politicians, CEOs and billionaires gathered in a Swiss mountain village to discuss society’s biggest problems and pitch their solutions, the coronavirus outbreak in China was little more than a remote threat. The economy was humming, and a major armed conflict in Europe was on nobody’s list