Trains canceled and schools affected as nationwide strikes hit France
By Hanna Ziady and Joseph Ataman, CNN Business Only about half the trains on regional and intercity lines were running Tuesday in France and Eurostar…
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Hasbro sales slip as families tire of playing with inflation
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Hasbro’s profit and sales slipped in the third quarter as families watched their spending on toys more…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party is seeking the suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates…
Continue Reading Meta agrees to sell Giphy, ending battle with UK regulators
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Facebook parent Meta says it will sell off Giphy after running out of options to thwart a ruling by…
Continue Reading Tusk requests investigation of Russia role in Polish scandal
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top opposition leader has called on the country’s ruling party to fully…
Continue Reading Millions of cookies: MacKenzie Scott gives Girl Scouts $85M
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $84.5 million to Girl Scouts of the USA and 29 of its local…
Continue Reading Stocks surge again as Corporate America’s earnings impress
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business So much for Shocktober. Wall Street’s often scary month for stocks has suddenly turned into Rocktober. The…
Continue Reading For widows on Facebook, updating relationship status is complicated
CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business After Rebecca Kasten Higgins lost her husband in a car accident a few days before their 20th anniversary…
Continue Reading Meta says it will sell Giphy to comply with UK breakup order
By Brian Fung, CNN Facebook-parent Meta plans to sell off Giphy, an online search tool for animated images, after the UK government said it would…
Continue Reading German cybersecurity chief out amid reports of Russia ties
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Interior Ministry says that the head of the national cybersecurity agency has been dismissed following reports of…
Continue Reading Pizza Hut is finally selling slices — with a twist
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Pizza Hut is getting more personal beyond its personal pan pizzas. For customers who find ordering a whole pie…
Continue Reading Liz Truss’ waning power brings political plots, and jokes
By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Powerless, humiliated, labeled a “ghost” prime minister and compared…
Continue Reading Death toll from Russian warplane crash into city rises to 15
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from the crash of a Russian warplane into a Russian city has risen to 15. That includes three people who died when…
Continue Reading The US is spending billions to boost chip manufacturing. Will it be enough?
WSTM, MICRON, CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The United States government is pulling out all the stops to boost domestic semiconductor…
Continue Reading The US is spending billions to boost chip manufacturing. Will it be enough?
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The United States government is pulling out all the stops to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing,…
Continue Reading Gates Foundation boosts GivingTuesday with $10M donation
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $10 million to the organization that grew out of…
Continue Reading UK govt warns military pilots against training Chinese army
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense ministry has issued an intelligence alert warning former and current military pilots against Chinese headhunting…
Continue Reading Rolls-Royce’s first electric car has two doors and is longer than a Cadillac Escalade
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Rolls-Royce will start production of its first electric car next year. It has only two doors…
Continue Reading Rolls-Royce’s first electric car has two doors and is longer than a Cadillac Escalade
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Rolls-Royce will start production of its first electric car next year. It has only two doors but is longer than…
Continue Reading French strike pits workers vs. government as inflation bites
By NICOLAS GARRIGA and BOUBKAR BENZABAT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of French workers have taken to the streets across the…
Continue Reading Goldman Sachs overhauls banking and trading units
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Goldman Sachs announced a major reorganization Tuesday as the Wall Street powerhouse grapples with market…
Continue Reading The strong dollar has an unexpected victim
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The strong dollar has been a headwind for blue chip US companies in the Dow and S&P 500 this year.…
Continue Reading Millennial Money: When pinching pennies isn’t enough
By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Millions of Americans deal with food, housing and general financial insecurity every year. Getting help can be tedious…
Continue Reading J&J sales grow, but strong dollar tugs at expectations
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson topped third-quarter expectations thanks to pharmaceutical sales growth, but a strong dollar…
Continue Reading GM just took a stake in a startup that makes imitation leather out of mushrooms
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors’ venture capital arm has invested in a California startup that’s making imitation…
Continue Reading First on CNN: Next spring the economy will sink into a 1990-style mild recession, Fitch says
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Stubborn inflation and the Federal Reserve’s jumbo-sized interest rate hikes will drive the American economy into a…
Continue Reading Green leaders back German nuke extension, activists angry
BERLIN (AP) — Senior members of Germany’s environmentalist Green party have indicated that they would accept Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision…
Continue Reading Almost two-thirds of economists think the economy is in or near a recession
CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Almost two-thirds of corporate economists believe the United States is already in a recession or will be within…
Continue Reading Semafor news site makes debut, intent on reinventing news
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The media organization Semafor launched on Tuesday with no less an ambition than reinventing the…
Continue Reading Electric vehicles take center stage at pared-back Paris show
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Paris auto show is back. Tuesday’s opening is the first for the show since…
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