Defying inflation worries, US casinos have best quarter
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Inflation? High gas prices? American gamblers are shrugging them off — and losing…
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Potential railroad strike delayed until early December
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The possibility of an economically devastating railroad strike has been pushed back into early…
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Tesla drivers will be able to make Zoom calls from their car
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen…
Continue Reading ‘It is not an accident’: Murdoch’s media empire celebrates DeSantis as future of GOP after midterms
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who controls some of the most powerful organs in conservative media, appeared to make…
Continue Reading Railroad unions push back threatened strike date
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business The threat of a freight railroad strike has been pushed back to early December, as four major…
Continue Reading British nurses to hold first ever strike over pay
By Reuters Tens of thousands of British nurses will go on strike for the first time over demands for better pay, their trade union said on Wednesday,…
Continue Reading Dutch, UK fentanyl sellers hit with Treasury sanctions
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Dutch nationals, an Englishman and nine companies have been targeted for sanctions by the…
Continue Reading Energy security trumps the climate? London’s biggest IPO of the year is an oil company
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The world may be losing the fight against the climate crisis, but investors are still willing to throw money at oil…
Continue Reading US plan to tap businesses for green finance meets resistance
By KELVIN CHAN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry unveiled a plan at the COP27…
Continue Reading Credit card rates hit a record high as Fed fights inflation
By Matt Egan It’s never a great time to carry credit card debt. But right now is arguably the worst time. The Federal Reserve’s war on…
Continue Reading UK delays N Ireland election call to buy time for talks
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has delayed calling a fresh election in Northern Ireland, hoping to buy time…
Continue Reading Qatar unveils 6,000 cabin World Cup fan village near airport
By LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar has unveiled a 6,000-cabin fan village in an isolated lot near its airports, an offering for…
Continue Reading Redfin to cut another 13% of workforce, shutter RedfinNow
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Online real estate broker Redfin is cutting 862 employees and shutting down its instant-cash-offer…
Continue Reading Chocolate is having a moment
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Between warnings of a recession, high inflation and layoff fears, the news is bleak. Why not have some…
Continue Reading Redfin shuts home-flipping business and cuts 13% of its workforce
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Redfin is set to shutter its home-flipping business and reduce its workforce by 13%, laying off 862 employees. About 264…
Continue Reading Shop owner who sold winning Powerball ticket is now a millionaire himself
By Stella Chan, CNN The owner of Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, California, who came to the United States from Syria in 1980 with $14,000 in…
Continue Reading So you won the lottery. What now?
CNN By Allison Morrow, CNN Business So, you won the lottery. Congrats! What do you do now? Once you’re done screaming and dancing in a shower…
Continue Reading Crypto giant Binance drops bid to save rival, stoking chaos in digital assets
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business In an abrupt reversal, cryptocurrency exchange Binance pulled out of a deal to acquire its embattled rival FTX,…
Continue Reading German economy to shrink in 2023, government advisers expect
BERLIN (AP) — The German government’s panel of independent economic advisers is forecasting that Europe’s biggest economy will shrink by 0.2%…
Continue Reading Germany blocks sale of chip factory to China over security fears
By Anna Cooban and Chris Stern, CNN Business The German government has blocked the sale of one of its semiconductor factories to a Chinese-owned tech…
Continue Reading EU proposes more forgiving debt plans a decade after crisis
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is considering more lenient economic recovery proposals that veer away from the…
Continue Reading Cryptocurrencies plunge as Binance scraps deal for rival FTX
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency prices plunged for a second-straight day after crypto exchange Binance said it was…
Continue Reading Twitter briefly rolled out gray ‘official’ check marks. Then Elon Musk changed his mind
By Brian Fung, CNN A new verification mark intended to better identify prominent Twitter accounts has instead become the latest source of chaos at…
Continue Reading Analysis: Why the news media got the midterm ‘red wave’ narrative so wrong
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The White House believes that the press has “egg on their faces, yet again.” That’s according to…
Continue Reading Stocks slip as control of Congress remains unclear
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Wall Street was betting on a red wave in the midterm elections Tuesday. But it appears that didn’t happen.…
Continue Reading EU eyes cheap loan plan for ‘stable’ Ukraine funding in 2023
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is planning to provide Ukraine with around 18 billion euros in financial aid next…
Continue Reading Cargo spacecraft docks with ISS after solar panel fails to deploy
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station Wednesday morning, despite making its…
Continue Reading Changes are coming to Wordle
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Changes are coming for Wordle … again. For starters the New York Times this week named Tracy Bennett the new…
Continue Reading Carmaker SEAT to build Spain’s 1st electric battery plant
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish carmaker SEAT says it plans to build Spain’s first electric car battery plant as part of a 10-billion-euro…
Continue Reading Swedish reactor unexpectedly shuts down after turbine fault
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A reactor at a nuclear plant in southern Sweden has unexpectedly shut down after suffering a fault in its turbine. A plant…
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