China’s military drills around Taiwan threaten to upend global trade
CNN By Laura He, CNN Business China’s live-fire military drills around Taiwan are threatening to disrupt trade and commercial travel in East…
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Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more…
Continue Reading This company is turning heaps of plastic trash into construction building blocks
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually…
Continue Reading Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions of consumers
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Alexandra Peers, CNN Business Credit giant Equifax sent lenders incorrect credit scores for millions of consumers this spring, in…
Continue Reading China hits Taiwan with trade restrictions after Pelosi visit
CNN By Laura He and CNN’s Beijing Bureau, CNN Business China has suspended some trade with Taiwan in apparent retribution for a visit by the US…
Continue Reading Americans are piling up credit card debt as they struggle to keep up with the high cost of living
CNN, POOL, NYSE By Matt Egan, CNN Business Americans are piling up credit card debt as they struggle to keep up with the high cost of living. US…
Continue Reading Sandy Hook parents testify about the ‘hell’ Alex Jones inflicted on them through lies about the shooting
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The parents of a child who was murdered during the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting delivered emotional testimony in a…
Continue Reading Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more…
Continue Reading Sandy Hook family attorney exposes Alex Jones’ dishonesty during brutal cross-examination
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The dishonesty of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was spotlighted in a Texas court on Wednesday as a…
Continue Reading Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip sends stocks tumbling
CNN By Laura He, CNN Business Global markets fell on Tuesday as investors feared US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could severely…
Continue Reading Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip sends stocks tumbling
CNN By Laura He, CNN Business Global markets fell on Tuesday as investors feared US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could severely…
Continue Reading Major news organizations sue Texas Department of Public Safety for public records on Uvalde shooting
CNN By Brian Stelter, CNN Business More than a dozen major news organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety to…
Continue Reading What’s at stake as book publishing merger faces antitrust trial
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Continue Reading How the media is falling short covering the economic rollercoaster
CNN By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Even top economists are struggling to explain perhaps “the weirdest economy” Americans have ever lived…
Continue Reading The busiest economic week of the summer is over: Here’s everything we learned
CNN By Nicole Goodkind and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business If you’re reading this, it means you’ve survived the busiest week of the summer.…
Continue Reading Alex Jones’ company files for bankruptcy amid Texas trial to award damages to Sandy Hook families
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ primary company filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, an…
Continue Reading Tiny birth control stock soars following Roe v. Wade overturn
CNN By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business There’s a saying on Wall Street that traders often sell the news. Well, that hasn’t been the case…
Continue Reading US economy contracts again, fueling recession fears
CNN By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said…
Continue Reading Last year’s backpack: Tapped out families are struggling to pay for back to school purchases
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Shopping for back-to-school essentials is becoming a real struggle for families whose household…
Continue Reading Ex-Fed insider: A full-blown recession is ‘almost certainly’ coming
CNN By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Federal Reserve’s war on inflation will eventually kill the economic recovery from Covid-19, former Fed…
Continue Reading Germany takes control of Russian-owned oil refineries
CNN By Nadine Schmidt and Anna Cooban, CNN Business The German government has seized control of three Russian-owned oil refineries to secure supplies…
Continue Reading A sign inflation is easing: Walmart is slashing prices on clothing and other products
CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Many shoppers have pulled back on buying clothing and other discretionary items as the highest inflation in…
Continue Reading Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: US economy remains ‘resilient’ despite GDP decline
CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business While the latest GDP report showed the US economy contracted again in the second quarter, Treasury Secretary…
Continue Reading Here come the discounts at Walmart, Best Buy and Gap
CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business A glimmer of relief is emerging at the checkout aisle: the return of discounts. Walmart, Best Buy, Gap,…
Continue Reading Consumer confidence slips for third straight month
CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans grew even more pessimistic about the US economy over the past month, according to the latest survey on…
Continue Reading If it looks like a recession and quacks like a recession…
CNN By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Is the United States heading for a recession? Or is the economy already in one? It — almost —…
Continue Reading Rise in gasoline prices threatens social stability and food security in Latin America
CNN By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN South American countries are bracing for an autumn of discontent, as spiking global fuel prices threaten to provoke more…
Continue Reading ‘Nope’ is Jordan Peele’s latest No. 1 film at the box office
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s third movie, opened to an estimated $44 million this weekend in North…
Continue Reading Why a social media app is dragging the market lower
CNN By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business An average 347 million people use Snapchat every day. That’s a fraction of the nearly 2 billion daily…
Continue Reading Europe’s economy surprisingly grew last quarter, easing recession fears (for now)
CNN By Anna Cooban and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Europe’s economy grew unexpectedly in the second quarter of this year, allaying concerns…
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