This lunar robot prototype looks like a centaur meant for the moon
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A Japanese company has built a four-legged, rolling robot that looks vaguely like a centaur —…
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Wall Street’s top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The agency that oversees Wall Street has proposed major changes to the way millions of everyday investors buy and…
Continue Reading Fannie and Freddie unveil plans to tackle the racial homeownership gap
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae announced Wednesday a series of actions that aim to make it easier to buy a…
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Georgia investment adviser on the run ordered to pay $12M
ATLANTA (AP) — A financial adviser who’s been on the run for nearly two years has been ordered to pay $12 million to his victims in Georgia,…
Continue Reading Amazon executive to serve as CEO of logistics company
Associated Press An Amazon executive who recently announced his surprising resignation is joining logistics startup Flexport as its new CEO. Flexport…
Continue Reading META alert! Facebook’s old FB stock ticker is no more
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business If you want to find the stock price of Mark Zuckerberg’s company, typing the familiar “FB”…
Continue Reading Wall Street’s blank-check boom has gone bust
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The once hot blank-check merger trend is fading fast. The stock market has been cratering so far this year —…
Continue Reading Interior phasing out plastic water bottles at national parks
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department says it will phase out sales of plastic water bottles and other…
Continue Reading President Biden talks gun control with Jimmy Kimmel for his first in-person late night appearance
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy…
Continue Reading President Biden talks gun control with Jimmy Kimmel for his first in-person late night appearance
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy…
Continue Reading Florida faces $1.2 million verdict for killing citrus trees
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest…
Continue Reading Rising prices are pushing shoppers to dollar stores
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The Great Recession in 2008 pushed struggling Americans to rely more heavily on dollar stores and prompted other…
Continue Reading Data breach at health care organization may affect 2 million
By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A digital attack on a Massachusetts-based health care organization may have compromised the personal…
Continue Reading Report: Philanthropy can help protect against climate change
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Philanthropists could help ease the damage from climate change by donating more money to address global warming…
Continue Reading Weary waiting for EU, Balkan trio boost regional integration
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Three Western Balkan leaders are moving to further boost regional economic and labor integration while their bids to…
Continue Reading Ikea Norway offers help with baby names after COVID-19 boom
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish retailer Ikea is known for the distinctive names of its flat-pack home products. Now, the company’s Norway…
Continue Reading EU lawmakers endorse ban on combustion-engine cars in 2035
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have approved a proposed ban on selling new cars with combustion engines in 2035 to step up the fight…
Continue Reading Are social media platforms like railroads? The future of Facebook and Twitter could depend on the answer
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Services like Facebook and Twitter could change radically for millions of Americans in the coming years depending on how…
Continue Reading Opinion: Black consumers like me want change — not Juneteenth-branded products
Opinion by Lisa Osborne Ross for CNN Business Perspectives During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cup Foods, the…
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CNN Opinion by Lisa Osborne Ross for CNN Business Perspectives During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cup Foods, the…
Continue Reading Treasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds
By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Biden administration has issued new investment restrictions that prohibit Americans from buying Russian stocks and…
Continue Reading An electric car finally makes financial sense
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Gas prices that keep going up by the day have got a lot of people thinking about buying an electric vehicle.…
Continue Reading Worry about stagflation, a flashback to ’70s, begins to grow
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. For Americans of a certain age, it…
Continue Reading Buy now, pay later users in the UK are racking up debt to pay off their debts
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The growing trend of buying things now but paying for them later is creating a debt trap for many shoppers in the United…
Continue Reading EU lawmakers support banning gasoline car sales by 2035 in key vote
By Angela Dewan, CNN Members of the European Parliament voted Wednesday to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035, in what would be one…
Continue Reading US ends GM steering investigation without seeking a recall
Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have closed an investigation into sticky power steering on thousands of older General Motors…
Continue Reading Police arrested in crackdown on major Spanish drug gangs
MADRID (AP) — The European Union’s law enforcement agency says Spanish police have dismantled two major drug trafficking networks that used…
Continue Reading German leader rules out nuclear option to fill energy gaps
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his government remains committed to phasing out nuclear power despite concerns about rising energy…
Continue Reading The CEO who fired 900 people over Zoom is accused of misleading investors
By David Goldman, CNN Business Vishal Garg, the Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom just before Christmas, has been sued by a former…
Continue Reading Why gas prices are near $5 a gallon and how high they’ll go
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Another day, another record for US gas prices. The US average for the price of a gallon of regular gas hit $4.96…
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