Customers push shopping carts outside a Stew Leonard’s supermarket in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Stew Leonard Jr. said that meat packing plant the company uses is opera...
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FDA committee recommends Moderna two-dose Covid vaccine for kids ages 6 to 17
A young man receives his Covid-19 vaccination at a vaccination clinic. People receive the Moderna vaccine in Milford, Pennsylvania. Preston Ehrler | LightRocket | Getty Images Moderna’s two-dose...
Texas power demand breaks record as severe heat wave hits the state
Yvette Johnson, 54, sits next to a fan outside of her families home on June 10, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Power demand recently hit a record high in Texas amid a severe heat ...
FAA, airlines scramble to reduce summer travel delays
WARRENTON, Va. – During a morning meeting in early May, staff at the federal air traffic command center rattle off a few of the day’s obstacles: storms near the Florida coast and in Texas, a mil...
30-year mortgage rate surges to 6.28%, up from 5.5% just a week ago
Jb Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates jumped sharply this week, as fears of a potentially more aggressive rate hike from the Federal Reserve upset financial markets. The average rate on th...
United Arab Emirates bans Pixar’s new Buzz Lightyear movie from theaters
Tim Allen and Tom Hanks voice Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody in Pixar’s “Toy Story.” Disney DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Disney Pixar’s animated movie “Lightyear”...
Real estate firms Compass and Redfin announce layoffs as housing market slows
Real estate firms Redfin and Compass are laying off workers, as mortgage rates rise sharply and home sales drop. In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Compass announced a 10% cut to ...
SpaceX Starship ‘ready to fly’ by July
Starship prototypes are pictured at the SpaceX South Texas launch site in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., May 22, 2022. Picture taken May 22, 2022. Veronica Cardenas | Reuters SpaceX is closing in on the n...
Stocks making big moves midday: FedEx, Continental Resources, Oracle
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Continental Resources — Shares soared 14% after the shale company announced an all-cash buyout proposal from the family trust of billionaire...
Natural gas plummets as Freeport delays facility restart following explosion
Smoke billows from the Freeport LNG plant in Quintana, Texas, U.S., June 8, 2022, in this still image obtained from a social media video on June 9, 2022. Maribel Hill | Reuters Natural gas prices plu...
Boeing plane deliveries total 35 in May as it grapples with supply chain problems
A Boeing 737 MAX airplane lands after a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, June 29, 2020. Karen Ducey | Reuters Boeing said Tuesday it delivered 35 planes in May, on par with the prev...
IRS boosts mileage rate deductions as gas prices soar to $5 a gallon
Guy Benhamou sends a picture of gas prices to friends while pumping gas at an Exxon Mobil gas station on June 9, 2022 in Houston. Brandon Bell | Getty Images If you’re self-employed or own a sma...
Netflix considers ads, password sharing crackdown, live sports
Reed Hastings, co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix Inc., during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Kyle Grillot | Bloomb...
The S&P 500 closed in a ‘bear market’ on Monday. What does that mean?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 10, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images There isn’t anything particularly special about the 20% demarcatio...
Ford issues stop-sale of Mustang Mach-Es due to potential safety defect
People visit Ford’s all-electric SUV Mustang Mach-E at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, the United States, Nov. 22, 2019. Xinhua via Getty Images DETROIT – Ford Motor is instructin...
Celsius liquidity crisis fuels fears of crypto market contagion
Cryptocurrencies have taken a tumble in 2022. Chesnot | Getty Images A liquidity crisis at cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius has investors worried about a broader contagion that could bring down oth...
U.S. airline bookings slipped again in May with fares 30% higher than 2019
Travelers walk through Terminal A at Orlando International Airport on Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25, 2021. Stephen M. Dowell | Orlando Sentinel | Getty Images U.S. airline bookings slipped 2.3%...
Spirit Airlines to decide on competing JetBlue, Frontier bids before end of June
A Spirit Airlines plane on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on February 07, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Spirit Airlines said Tuesday th...
Novogratz says crypto having a ‘Long Term Capital Management moment’
Michael Novogratz Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Crypto investor Michael Novogratz is drawing parallels between crypto and Long Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund that blew up in the late ...
UN chief slams new fossil fuel funding
In remarks delivered to the Austrian World Summit in Vienna via video, Antonio Guterres issued a sobering assessment of the planet’s prospects. “Most national climate pledges are simply no...
Coinbase lays off 18% as execs prepare for recession, ‘crypto winter’
Coinbase Founder and CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Coinbase is laying off almost a fifth of its workf...
Continental Resources, Oracle, National Vision and more
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Continental Resources (CLR) – The oil and natural gas producer’s stock rallied 7.4% in the premarket after receiving a $70 per share &...
Bitcoin plunge spells trouble for Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy
Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer of MicroStrategy, first got into bitcoin in 2020, when he decided to start adding the cryptocurrency to MicroStrategy’s balance sheet as part...
‘Profit recession’ warning as markets wait for aggressive central bank moves
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, June 13, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Global stock markets diverged on Tuesday after a worldwide sell-off in the prev...
Nearly all factories in Shanghai resume work as Covid controls ease
German automaker Volkswagen is one of state-owned automaker SAIC’s foreign partners in China. Pictured here on June 7, 2022, is the joint venture’s factory in Shanghai. Qilai Shen | Bloomb...
BYD sold so many EVs it’s one of the top three automakers in China
One of BYD’s bestselling electric car models, the Han, is on display during an auto show in Shenzhen on June 5, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric ca...
Fed’s inflation battle to worsen market turmoil: Canaccord’s Dwyer
Stocks may go into a deeper tailspin. Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer predicts 1980s-era interest rate hikes will exacerbate the turmoil and make a recession seem increasingly more likely. “...
Cramer says investors can buy stock of this software company as a speculative pick
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday said that investors have his permission to buy shares of software company Mitek Systems as a speculative play. “Mitek’s genuinely cheap on an earnings bas...
Matterport is not a buy
Rivian Automotive Inc: “I think Ford stock’s very cheap. They’ve got to sell the rest of [its shares of] Rivian.” Freeport-McMoRan Inc: “Not the time to buy it. I think t...