Walmart cuts profit guidance as it sees slower growth due to inflation

Walmart on Monday cut its quarterly and full-year profit guidance, saying inflation was changing how its customers spend. The big-box retailer said it now expects same-store sales to rise by about 6% ...

GM electric vehicle chat tool aims to fill the ‘EV knowledge gap’

GM launched ‘EV Live,’ a free online platform that connects electric vehicle owners or consumers who have questions about zero-emissions cars and trucks with an expert who can answer them....

Target chases bigger e-commerce profits with new delivery hubs, fleet of drivers

MINNEAPOLIS — Each day, hundreds of drivers park at a delivery hub in Target’s hometown and load up the trunks of their personal cars with packages to deliver to customers. Soon, the big-box ret...

Why CEO Mary Barra is confident GM can beat Tesla in electric vehicles

GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra addresses investors Oct. 6, 2021 at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. Photo by Steve Fecht for General Motors DETROIT — In September 2017, General Motors CEO Mary Bar...

WHO declares spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency

Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The World Health Organization has activated its highest alert level for the growing monkeypox outbreak, declaring the virus a public health emergency of inte...

Biden administration considering public health emergency

A Northwell Health staff member holds the monkeypox vaccine, at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York, where monkey pox vaccines were administered on July 14, 2022. James Carbone | Newsday | Getty Ima...

Vince McMahon retires as WWE CEO after sexual misconduct probe

Vince McMahon attends a press conference at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Michael N. Todaro | Getty Images World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon announ...

Here’s what Cadillac’s new $300,000 electric sedan will look like

The Cadillac Celestiq show car previews an upcoming electric sedan for General Motors. GM DETROIT – General Motors on Friday previewed what its most expensive Cadillac ever will look like as the autom...

Airlines temper flying ambitions after chaotic travel rebound

An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, equipped with radar altimeters that may conflict with telecom 5G technology, can be seen flying 500 feet above the ground while on final approach to land at LaGuar...

Polio case confirmed in New York state, health-care providers told to look for more

Polio virus, illustration. Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material. This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or infantil...

American Airlines (AAL) 2Q 22 earnings

American Airlines posted its first quarterly profit since the Covid pandemic started without government aid but joined competitors in scaling back growth plans after a host of disruptions this year. T...

Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) Q2 2022 earnings

An employee places a cooked pizza into a delivery box inside a Domino’s Pizza Group Plc store. Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Domino’s Pizza on Thursday reported mixed quarterly re...

United Airlines (UAL) 2Q 2022 earnings

An aircraft takes off from O’Hare International Airport on January 18, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images United Airlines on Wednesday notched a key profit milestone in its pa...

Mattel inks deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to produce line of toys

The company’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft rolls out to the launchpad in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX Mattel inked a multiyear deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to create a line of toys in...

Canyon Partners’ Friedman says the markets can handle a recession and he’s building a shopping list

(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Even if the economy faces two quarters of contraction — the traditional definition of a recession — Josh Friedman thinks it’s strong...

The reason behind a mysterious trading surge in stocks like Berkshire Hathaway has been revealed

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger press conference at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting, April 30, 2022. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway‘s Class A shares is among the stock market’...

3 reasons why executives are leaving retailers from GameStop to Gap

Shoppers explore a mostly empty mall in Columbus, Ohio. Matthew Hatcher | Getty Images Don’t expect the stream of departures from retailers’ C-suites to stop anytime soon. Already this yea...

Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q2 2022

Fans gather at the Netflix booth at a trade show. Mike Blake | Reuters Netflix shares jumped 8% after the company said it lost fewer subscribers than anticipated during the second quarter. The company...

CDC panel recommends Novavax vaccine for adults

In this photo illustration a silhouette of a man holding a medical syringe and a vial seen displayed in front of the Novavax logo on a screen. Cezary Kowalski | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Centers ...

Will Netflix keep losing subscribers? Investors await guidance

In this photo illustration the Netflix logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen, with graphic representation of the stock market in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Netflix i...

Spirit Airlines plans Houston crew base, its third new outpost in five months

A Spirit Airlines aircraft takes off at La Guardia Airport. John Nacion | LightRocket | Getty Images Spirit Airlines said Tuesday it plans to open a crew base at George Bush Intercontinental Airport i...

GM reveals Chevrolet Blazer EV with pricing up from $45,000

2024 Chevrolet Blazer SS EV GM DETROIT – General Motors on Monday revealed its new electric Chevrolet Blazer that’s expected to compete against the Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y crossove...

London flights suspended after runway damaged during heat wave

A sign reading “Welcome to Luton” is seen from an aircraft on arrival to Gatwick Airport, London, Britain, May 23, 2022. Tom Nicholson | Reuters Extreme heat in the U.K. on Monday caused r...

Supply chain issues are hindering 737 Max production increase

An aerial view of several Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked at King County International Airport-Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, June 1, 2022. Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun on Mo...

Delta buys 100 Max planes in first big Boeing order in over a decade

Delta Air Lines planes at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Getty Images Delta Air Lines is buying 100 Boeing 737 Max 10 planes, its first major order for new aircraft from the U.S. manufacturer in...

Ford unveils new F-150 Raptor R pickup with 700 horsepower

2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Ford DETROIT — As Ford Motor ramps up production of its electric F-150 pickup, it’s not giving up on offering new, highly profitable performance models with gasoline eng...

Customer service suffers at short-staffed restaurants as Covid takes toll

A waiter works at a restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 3, 2022. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Jeff Rothenberg has grown accustomed to long wait times at restaurants, even when tables ...

Airfares cool as peak summer travel season fades. Now what?

Passengers are seen at the Delta Air Lines check-in counters at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of the Fourth of July holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, July 1, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage...

Stock futures inch higher ahead of a busy week of earnings

U.S. stock index futures were modestly higher during overnight trading Sunday as Wall Street looks ahead to a busy week of earnings. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0....

ISS urges Spirit shareholders to vote against Frontier merger, calls JetBlue bid superior

LaGuardia International Airport Terminal A for JetBlue and Spirit Airlines in New York. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Friday reversed its stance on Sp...

Investors put $2.5 billion into companies

A Falcon 9 rocket launches a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on April 29, 2022. SpaceX Private investment in space companies dwindled in the second quarter — weighed down by broader economic and...

Texas sues Biden administration over abortion rule

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind a Trump-era immigration policy that fo...