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Kroger (KR) earnings Q3 2022
Kroger on Thursday raised its forecast for the year after stronger fiscal third-quarter sales topped Wall Street expectations and inflation continued to push up the prices shoppers pay for milk, eggs ...
House approves tentative labor deal, sends to Senate
A rail employee works a Union Pacific Intermodal Terminal rail yard on November 21, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The House passed legislation Wednesday that would force a...
Mortgage rates fall for the third straight week, but demand still drops further
A For Sale sign appears in front of a house on Oak Street in Patchogue, New York, on May 17, 2022. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images Mortgage rates soared over 7% just a month ago, but since then t...
Delta making lounge access harder after complaints of crowding, lines
The Sky Lounge during a tour of Delta Air Lines Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in the Queens borough of New York, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Delta Ai...
Airbnb launches first hosting platform for apartment tenants
Airbnb is partnering with several major landlords and management companies to list designated apartment buildings where renters are allowed to offer short-term sublets on the site. The company said We...
Asana, Zscaler, Marvell and more
Pedestrians wearing protective masks pass in front of a banner displaying Asana Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in ...
Economist Austan Goolsbee named next Chicago Fed president
The economist Austan Goolsbee will take over as president of the Chicago Federal Reserve early next year as the central bank weighs critical policy moves ahead, according to an announcement Thursday. ...
Why labor economists say the remote work ‘revolution’ is here to stay
Momo Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images Remote work surged in the pandemic era — but this trend, borne of necessity for public health, has now become a fixture of the U.S. job market, one that...
Salesforce, Five Below, Okta, Costco and more
A shopper loads a car with bottled water at a Costco Wholesalers in Chingford, Britain March 15, 2020. John Sibley | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Salesforce — Sh...
Key inflation measure that the Fed follows rose 0.2% in October, less than expected
A man climbs into the fridge for milk at a Walmart store in Rosemead, California on November 22, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Inflation rose in October about in line with estimates, se...
Designer Brands, Lands’ End, Salesforce and more
Store front view of Lands’ End opening of the NYC Pop-Up on Vererans Day with the Bob Woodruff foundation on November 11, 2015 in New York City. Bryan Bedder | Getty Images Check out the compani...
China signals slight Covid policy easing, without any major change
Customers dine in at a McDonald’s in Guangzhou on Dec. 1, 2022, a day after the city eased Covid restrictions on restaurant operations. Yin Hon Chow | CNBC BEIJING — A trickle of changes around ...
UK banks given new targets to boost working class senior hires
The U.K.’s financial services sector has been issued new targets for at least half of senior leaders to come from working-class or lower socio-economic backgrounds by 2030. Sopa Images | Lightro...
Fed hikes and a stronger dollar are fueling risks of political instability in Africa
ACCRA, GHANA – NOVEMBER 05: Ghanaians march during the ‘Ku Me Preko’ demonstration on November 5, 2022, in Accra, Ghana. People took to the streets of Ghana’s capital to protes...
Salesforce, Snowflake, Costco and more
Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the be...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell says smaller rate hikes could come in December
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed Wednesday that smaller interest rate increases are likely ahead even as he sees progress in the fight against inflation as largely inadequ...
Watch Fed Chair Jerome Powell speak on the economy and monetary policy
[The stream is slated to start at 1:30 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is slated to speak Wednesday at the Brooking...
CrowdStrike, Horizon Therapeutics, Petco and more
A customer carries a dog near a Petco Animal Supplies shopping bag outside a store in New York. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Cro...
Job openings fall amid Fed efforts to cool labor market
Workers sort packages at a FedEx Express facility on Cyber Monday in Garden City, New York, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Job openings dipped in October amid the F...
Private hiring increased by just 127,000 jobs in November, well below estimate, ADP reports
Private hiring slowed sharply during November in a sign that the historically tight labor market could be losing some steam, according to a report Wednesday from payroll processing firm ADP. Companies...
Elon Musk says the Fed must cut rates ‘immediately’ to stop a severe recession
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils a new all-wheel-drive version of the Model S car in Hawthorne, California October 9, 2014. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Elon Musk thinks a recession is coming and worrie...
European Central Bank says bitcoin is on the ‘road to irrelevance’
The bitcoin logo displayed on a smartphone with euro banknotes in the backgrouund. Andrea Ronchini | NurPhoto via Getty Images The European Central Bank gave a strong critique of bitcoin on Wednesday,...
Transitory inflation talk is back. But economists say higher prices here to stay
Prices of fruit and vegetables are on display in a store in Brooklyn, New York City, March 29, 2022. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Global markets have taken heart in recent weeks from data indicating that in...
Hormel, Petco, CrowdStrike and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Hormel (HRL) – The food producer’s stock slid 6.4% in the premarket after reporting a mixed quarter. Earnings beat estimates, but sales ...
Peter Thiel’s VC fund backs climate-conscious fintech TreeCard
TreeCard offers users a spending and money management platform tied to a debit card made from wood. TreeCard TreeCard, a climate-conscious digital money app, raised $23 million from investors in a new...
I like Morgan Stanley over SoFi Technologies
Morgan Stanley: “That’s the kind of stock that we like here. … We are in real companies that make real things, return real capital and Morgan Stanley is one of those.” Intuitiv...
Kroger and Albertsons executives defend proposed merger at hearing
Albertsons and Kroger supermarkets Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images; Brandon Bell | Getty Images The battle over whether grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons should be allowed to combine is ...
Charts suggest the S&P 500 is at a ‘make-or-break’ moment, Jim Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said that the S&P 500 is at a critical moment that could send it higher or cut its upward trajectory short. “The charts, as interpreted by Carolyn Boroden,...
Shopper turnout hit record over Black Friday weekend, trade group says
A record number of holiday shoppers – 196.7 million – flocked back to stores and hunted for deals from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation, which ...