U.S. households ramped up their spending in July, providing reassurance that the economy's decadelong expansion continued to roll despite slowing factory activity and global growth. Personal-consumption expenditures, a measure of household spending, ...
British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton is a high profile convert to a meatless diet. Now he is one of the investors in Neat Burger, a meat-free restaurant with plans to open 14 outlets in the U.K., Europe and the United States in the next two years. Hamilton ...
On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission voted to settle federal privacy charges against YouTube, as first reported by Politico. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have corroborated the report, saying the official settlement will likely be made public next ...
Friday is Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett's birthday. He is 89, but the best birthday present he ever received came long ago, before he made his first penny — before he was even born. It didn't come wrapped; it doesn't even take a ...
President Trump stepped up his attacks on General Motors today and called on the company to move jobs back to the United States from overseas. Trump said in a tweet that the automaker's U.S. workforce was now the smallest in Detroit, noting that the ...
I arrived back from a news-fast vacation to an assortment of stories, both weird and important. The U.S. tried to buy Greenland (what?), the Amazon is burning, billionaire David Koch died, and CEOs from 181 of the world's largest companies — as part of the ...
It was a cool Friday afternoon in 1968 and businessman Donald Wetzel needed money to travel before the end of the weekend. The then-40-year-old examined the long line snaking through the bank and out the door, the clock was etching close to 5 o'clock, ...
For Altria and Philip Morris International, breakin' up may have been too hard to do. A decade after going their separate ways, the two tobacco giants announced this week they are considering a merger. The potential merger would end years of speculation on ...
The global stock of negative-yielding debt is now in excess of $17 trillion as rising market volatility lends extra force to this year's unprecedented bond rally. Thirty percent of all investment-grade securities now bear sub-zero yields, meaning that investors who ...
San Francisco (CNN Business) Apple is launching a new program that will make it easier for its customers to get their iPhones fixed by expanding the number of businesses that can repair them. The initiative will give iPhone owners added options to fix some ...
If Popeyes Louisiana Chicken didn't have a big enough beef on its hands with its recent social media-fueled rivalry with Chick-fil-A, now the fast-food chain is being sued for selling out of its buzzed-about chicken sandwich. A Tennessee man filed a lawsuit ...
Learn how to set up Apple's credit card directly from your iPhone, tie it into Apple Pay, and monitor your purchases. timcook_applecard_march2019appleevent.jpg. Image: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET. You're interested in applying for an Apple Card ...
Chick-fil-A is reportedly planning to open a year-long pop-up in the UK. Propel Info's Mark Wingett tweeted on Friday that Chick-fil-A "is looking to take a significant step towards launching in the UK, with plans to open of a one-year pop-up here." Chick-fil-A ...
Labor Day weekend is the ideal time to rest, relax, and take advantage of end-of-summer sales. To celebrate the last holiday weekend of the season, Macy's is having its annual Labor Day Sale with savings on a wide range of home goods. You can save on ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Big Lots fiscal second quarter net sales increased 2.5%, and the retailer posted its fifth consecutive quarterly comparable-store sales increase, with the furniture category continuing to be a key driver. While net earnings declined ...
Lee and Nancy Livermore of Syracuse walk out of the Kmart store in Mattydale in a file photo. (Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com). 0. By Kevin Tampone | ktampone@syracuse.com. Mattydale, N.Y. — The last Kmart store in the Syracuse area is going out of ...
August wasn't great for S&P 500 investors — unless you owned the stocks that bucked tariff talk and put up double-digit percentage gains anyway. X. Error loading player: No playable sources found. While the Standard & Poor's fell 1.9% in August, 15 S&P ...
Video processing chipmaker Ambarella (AMBA) pleased investors with its fiscal second-quarter results that showed progress in the company's transition to a supplier of computer vision systems. AMBA stock rocketed on Friday. X. Error loading player:.
Canada's economic growth in the second quarter was a slam dunk, according to data released today. One reason for the growth spurt was the Toronto Raptors, who bested the Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals in June. It was the first time a Canadian ...
... * Ferrexpo donated $110 mln to charity. * Ferrexpo spent $6.4 mln on review. * Ferrexpo could look to recover some funds -source. * IRC unable to conclude ultimate use of all funds (Adds source comments, details, shares). By Noor Zainab Hussain and ...
One constant in history is the law of unintended consequences. As we've learned from hemp's legalization via the 2018 Farm Bill, and with the ongoing push for federal legalization of recreational cannabis, the end of prohibition will not come in one mighty ...
Who won the national dispute between Nexstar, the owner of WIVB, and AT&T, the owner of DirecTV, that was settled Thursday night? It is hard to say, since no financial details were revealed in the announcement of the deal about how much AT&T will pay to ...
Teen clothing retailer Forever 21 is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing, according to several published reports. Forever 21, which is privately held, has more than 800 stores in 57 countries. And while many retailers have been paring back their network ...
Larry Fink, the influential chief executive of BlackRock, which manages more than $6 trillion in investments, wants the public to know that he is using his enormous power to press companies to "serve a social purpose." Fink — a Democratic donor who ...
Government has announced the third round of bank merger plan to revive public banks along with flagging economy from five year low. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who announced tax sops and measures last week, declared the merger plan of 10 ...
CAMDEN - A turnaround effort at Campbell Soup Co. "made significant progress" in its last fiscal year, the firm's top executive said in an earnings report Friday. CEO Mark Clouse described a year "of steady positive performance" that focused on the Camden ...
An inquiry by the B.C. Utilities Commission into B.C. gas prices has found that there is a "significant unexplained difference" of about 13 cents per litre in the price of gas in southern B.C. compared to the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
From Sept. 16 through Sept. 30, Walmart is holding its first-ever car seat recycling event in celebration of National Baby Safety Month. Customers can trade in used car seats at the service desk in any participating Walmart store and receive a $30 Walmart gift ...
Whilst Fanta Fruit Twist reminds us of our childhood, and Fanta Lemon makes us reminisce about being on holiday, there's now a new edition of the famous fizzy drink - and we've never seen anything quite like it. Just in time for Halloween , Fanta has decided ...
Canadian National Railway has signed an agreement to purchase the Massena line — 220 miles of track stretching between Quebec and Woodard, New York — from Jacksonville-based CSX (Nasdaq: CSX). "CN is excited to be expanding its reach in New ...
MILWAUKEE — Hard seltzers have been a popular option for Wisconsinites looking to enjoy an alcoholic beverage over the summer months. So popular, that a local brewing company is looking to get in the mix. Milwaukee's famous Sprecher Brewery is ...
NEW YORK — Three U.S. senators are pushing Amazon to remove unsafe products from its online store, spurred by a Wall Street Journal investigation that found that more than 4,000 products on the site were mislabeled, declared unsafe or banned by ...
PLYMOUTH, Ind. (WNDU) - The 53rd annual Marshall County Blueberry Festival is underway in Plymouth. Roughly 300,000 people come out each year, making it one of the biggest festivals in the Midwest. "This is the first largest four day festival in the state of ...
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