Walt Disney Co. Q2 results fall short but subscribers grow
By The Associated Press BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. missed Wall Street’s expectations for its fiscal second quarter, dinged by…
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Beyond Meat shares tumble on disappointing Q1
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Plant-based meat company Beyond Meat reported lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter as it slashed…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
The Associated Press Stocks fell on Wall Street Wednesday, led by more drops in technology companies, after a report on inflation came in worse than…
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Disney avoids Netflix’s fate as streaming subscriptions grow
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney’s streaming numbers were under the microscope on Wednesday after Netflix’s stock tanked last month…
Continue Reading Callaway, Alcon rise; Wendy’s, Fiverr International fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Callaway, Alcon rise; Wendy’s, Fiverr International…
Continue Reading Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance?
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue Reading Google adopts an Apple-like approach for its Pixel products
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array…
Continue Reading Coinbase loses half its value in a week as crypto slumps
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week. That…
Continue Reading NYC mayor calls on ATF to yank ghost gun kit maker’s license
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor is calling on the Biden administration to yank the federal firearms license of a Nevada company that sells…
Continue Reading Volkswagen is bringing back the Scout as an electric SUV
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The Scout, a one-time competitor to Ford Broncos and Jeeps that was last sold more than four decades ago, is…
Continue Reading The national baby formula shortage is getting worse and parents are desperate for it to end
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Bryan Lambillotte knows the anxiety-induced hunt for baby formula all too well amid the ongoing national shortage. He and…
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Local couple’s horse wins $750,000 purse at Churchill Downs
EL PASO, Texas – Jackie’s Warrior, the 4-year-old colt, came in first place by a gap of 4 horse lengths in the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes this…
Continue Reading Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee have asked the Justice Department to…
Continue Reading Kohl’s holds off barbarians at the gate… for now
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The pitchforks have been out for Kohl’s over the past year. Activist investors have criticized the…
Continue Reading Judge: Trump must pay $110K, meet conditions to end contempt
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge says he will lift his contempt of court order issued against Donald Trump if…
Continue Reading Airbnb overhauls site searches with categories of rentals
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it’s making the biggest changes in a decade to the way people search its site for short-term rental homes.…
Continue Reading Here’s what’s getting more expensive at the grocery store
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Inflation may be slowing just a bit, but food prices are on fire. Food prices were 9.4% higher in April 2022…
Continue Reading French fiberglass maker hiring 400 in $28M Georgia expansion
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — A French manufacturer says it will restart the fiberglass furnace at a Georgia plant it purchased in 2019. Saint-Gobain says it…
Continue Reading Shireen Abu Akleh, journalist killed in the West Bank, was ‘the voice of Palestinian suffering’
By Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a household name in the Arab world. For two…
Continue Reading Google strikes content deals with 300 European publishers
LONDON (AP) — Google says it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced…
Continue Reading Tesla’s stock slide raises doubts about Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Elon Musk’s bold plan to buy Twitter depends partly on how his investment in Tesla is…
Continue Reading Tesla’s stock slide raises doubts about Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Elon Musk’s bold plan to buy Twitter depends partly on how his investment in Tesla is doing. Uh-oh. Shares…
Continue Reading Rivian shares rise, despite larger than expected loss
CNN, CNN BUSINES By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Electric truck maker Rivian delivered some much needed assurance to Wall Street Wednesday, even as it…
Continue Reading This California desert could hold the key to powering all of America’s electric cars
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The Salton Sea Basin feels almost alien. It lies where two enormous chunks of the Earth’s crust, the North…
Continue Reading Elon Musk, an erratic visionary, revels in contradiction
Many people are puzzling what a Elon Musk takeover of Twitter would mean for the company and even whether he’ll go through with the deal.  If the…
Continue Reading Elon Musk, an erratic visionary, revels in contradiction
By TOM KRISHER, MICHAEL LIEDTKE and ADAM GELLER Associated Press Many people are puzzling what a Elon Musk takeover of Twitter would mean for the…
Continue Reading Southwest invests in faster internet, outlets, overhead bins
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says it will spend more than $2 billion on changes to make flying on its planes more comfortable. The airline said…
Continue Reading Watch a space startup spin a projectile into the sky at more than 1,000 miles per hour
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpinLaunch, an ambitious startup that hopes to spin, rather than launch, satellites into orbit,…
Continue Reading Watch a space startup spin a projectile into the sky at more than 1,000 miles per hour
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpinLaunch, an ambitious startup that hopes to spin, rather than launch, satellites into orbit, released dizzying…
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