Nordstrom signage outside one of the company’s full-line department stores. Tim Boyle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Allbirds will start selling its shoes in select Nordstrom department stor...
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Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters and Intuit
A Nordstrom store in Irvine, California. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Nordstrom — Shares jumped 7% after the retailer surpassed earnings expectations and rai...
CDC says monkeypox doesn’t spread easily by air: ‘This is not Covid’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to calm public anxiety over how the monkeypox virus is transmitted, emphasizing that it doesn’t spread that easily through the air because it...
NFL renews sponsorship deal with Pepsi, but without Super Bowl halftime show
A detail view of a Pepsi ad at FedEx Field during an NFL football game between the Washington Football Team and the New York Giants, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, in Landover, Md. Aaron M. Sprecher via AP...
What retail woes signal about the market’s fight against inflation
Jay Laprete | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retailers are missing and missing big. It started last week with the Walmart and Target results which showed big inventory builds and the need for markdowns, and...
NOAA forecasts a busy Atlantic hurricane season for 7th straight year
Alonzo Lewis rescues items from his mother’s home after it was destroyed by Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021 in Laplace, Louisiana. Ida made landfall August 29 as a category 4 storm southwest of...
U.S. Navy climate plan calls to cut emissions, electrify vehicle fleet
U.S. Navy sailors operate onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Adriatic Sea, off Split, Croatia February 14, 2022. Milan Sabic | Reuters The U.S. Navy on Tuesd...
Bank of America CEO says nothing will slow U.S consumer from spending money
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, speaking at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 23rd, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC U.S. consumers are “in good shape” and will keep spending at an ele...
Stellantis, Samsung to invest $2.5 billion in Indiana EV battery plant
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares holds a news conference after meeting with unions, in Turin, Italy, March 31, 2022. Massimo Pinca | Reuters Automaker Stellantis plans to invest more than $2.5 billion in...
Bill Ackman says a more aggressive Fed or market collapse are the only ways to stop this inflation
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said raging inflation will only dissipate if the Federal Reserve acts more aggressively or the market sell-off turns into a full-on collapse. “There is...
Sen. Cruz blasts Larry Fink over ‘woke’ shareholder votes on climate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz blasted BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Tuesday for so-ca...
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki will join MSNBC this fall
U.S. White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 20, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Jen Psaki, who left her role as President Joe Bi...
Sales of newly built homes fall 16% in April as prices soar
Sales of newly built homes dropped 16.6% in April from March, far more than expected, and were down 26.9% from April 2021, according to the U.S. Census. The annualized rate came in at 591,000 units, s...
Electric vehicles are in short supply. Here’s what you can find as gas prices soar
Charging port for a Ford Motor Co. Mustang during the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images As gas prices hit record highs, some Ameri...
Still missing your tax refund? You’ll soon receive 5% interest
Bill Oxford | E+ | Getty Images If you’re still waiting for a tax refund, there’s a silver lining: it may be accruing interest, and the rate jumps to 5% from 4% on July 1, according to the...
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reports Q1 2022 loss
A person carries a bag from the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, February 27, 2017. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Abercrombie & Fitch shares fell more than 25% in early tra...
Firms to watch with housing shortage set to benefit homebuilder stocks
Ariel Skelley | Digitalvision | Getty Images The double whammy of a declining stock market and rising interest rates has been pummeling homebuilder stocks this year, resulting in rock-bottom valuation...
Monkeypox outbreak ‘containable,’ says WHO, as confirmed cases hit 131
Monkeypox cases are being investigated in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia following a recent spike in infections. Jepayona Delita | Future Publishing | Getty Images The World Health Organizatio...
Burning gas to produce electricity is ‘stupid,’ the CEO of power giant Enel says
Enel CEO Francesco Starace photographed in 2019. In an interview with CNBC on May 24, 2022, Starace said “you can produce electricity better, cheaper, without using gas.” Giulio Napolitano...
Best Buy (BBY) earnings Q1 2023
Customers shop at a Best Buy store on August 24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Best Buy reported an increase in second-quarter sales of nearly 20% as consumers purchased electronics to adjust to lifestyl...
NFTs, Greek myths, Hayao Miyazaki
With summer around the corner, the wealthy are preparing their lists of elevating beach reads. And this year, their Goyard tote bags are likely to be filled with books about innovation, technology and...
Volkswagen CEO says carmaker will overtake Tesla on EV sales by 2025
The chief executive of Volkswagen believes Europe’s biggest carmaker can overtake Tesla to become the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles by 2025. Speaking to CNBC’s “S...
Chinese buyers not living in lockdown shake off EV price hikes
Guangzhou-based Xpeng is one of several Chinese electric car companies that’s started to expand overseas. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — In a sign Chinese drivers are...
Why China will likely recover more slowly from the latest Covid shock
As Shanghai tries to reopen businesses, one downtown district over the weekend banned residents from leaving their apartment complexes again for mass virus testing. Pictured here, in another district ...
Stock futures fall after Dow’s 600 point comeback
Stock futures fell in overnight trading on Monday as the markets struggled to sustain a comeback rally following weeks of losses. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 110 points, or 0.34%....