Why the global soil shortage threatens food, medicine and the climate

Soil can be considered black gold, and we’re running out it. The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years. “There are places that have already lo...

Abbott Nutrition restarts baby formula production in reopened Michigan plant

Shelves normally meant for baby formula sit nearly empty at a store in downtown Washington, DC, on May 22, 2022. Samuel Corum | AFP | Getty Images Abbott Nutrition on Saturday resumed baby formula pro...

The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread

Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox...

Columbia Business School Professor Omid Malekan Talks To Us About His Upcoming Book

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GSBA AND COMCAST RENEW RELIEF EFFORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THIRD ROUND OF “READY FOR BUSINESS FUND”

More than $200,000 in Grants are Available to Small Businesses Throughout Washington State SEATTLE –News Direct– Comcast Washington Following the success of the Ready for Business Fund in ...

AMD, Pfizer, NIO, DocuSign, Campbell Soup, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s a relatively quiet week on the earnings calendar. Highlights will include J.M. Smucker on Tuesday, Campbell Soup on Wednesday, and DocuSign, NIO, and Vail Resorts on Thursday. Pfizer also hosts a...

Localbitcoins User Pleads Guilty to Running Unlicensed Crypto Business — Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News

A cryptocurrency trader has been convicted in the U.S. for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business using Localbitcoins and Paxful. He faces up to five years in federal prison and a possibl...

NFTs can lead the way in transforming business experiences

Many businesses and big brands have already jumped on the nonfungible token (NFT) bandwagon, including Nike, the National Basketball Association, Pepsi and even Taco Bell. But are these just for the s...

U.S. monkeypox cases have more than doubled in a week to 20, CDC says

The World Health Organization has said that there is a “window” of opportunity to contain a recent monkeypox outbreak which has seen cases spread across Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Nur...

6 exceptional retail winners that Jim Cramer says are a buy

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday highlighted six retail winners with standout quarters that investors should be lining up to purchase. “No one ever made a dime from panicking. If you dumped any...

Walmart welcomes back annual hometown bash, acknowledges challenge of inflation

Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc. Corporation, participates in a Business Roundtable discussion on the”Future of Work in an Era of Automation and Artificial Intelligence”, d...

Consumer trends will gauge the state of inflation

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that any signs of consumer negativity next week will be a welcome sign for the Federal Reserve in its fight against inflation. “I know it’s a total drag...

Kohl’s sale negotiations could drag on for weeks, possibly longer

The drawn-out bidding process for Kohl’s doesn’t appear to be coming to an end any time soon. It could take several weeks, if not longer, for a deal to come together, a person familiar wit...

Coinbase hiring pause for ‘foreseeable future’ and will rescind offers

Two weeks after announcing plans to slow hiring, crypto exchange Coinbase now says the freeze will extend into the “foreseeable future.” The company will also be pulling some accepted job ...

House Republicans’ energy and climate plan pushes fossil fuels, hydro

U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol May 11,...

How the U.S. Space Force plans to police outer space

Outer space is getting crowded, with both commercial endeavors and secretive military projects. And it’s going to be up to the newest United States military branch, the Space Force, to protect A...

CEOs on gas, renewables and the energy crisis

From the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain shocks to rising inflation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, governments and businesses around the world are attempting to tackle and solve major cris...

Walmart to open high-tech fulfillment centers to ship online orders faster

Walmart is building four high-tech fulfillment centers that will simplify and speed up the picking and packing of online orders. The first one will open this summer in Joliet, Illinois. Walmart Walmar...

‘I’d love to be married now. I would love to be a dad by now. I’d love to have a home by now’: The winners and losers in Biden’s plan to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt

The Biden administration is planning to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt for borrowers earning below a specific income threshold. But for borrowers like Johnathan Perkins, 36, the amount of debt fo...

Turning Point Therapeutics, Lululemon, RH and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Turning Point Therapeutics (TPTX) – The biopharmaceutical company’s shares more than doubled in premarket trading after agreeing to be a...

Okta stock rally shifts into overdrive following hiked outlook as other software companies trim theirs

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday, adding to gains in the regular session after the identity-management services company reported better-than-expected results and, unlike some ...

Frontier offers $250M reverse breakup fee if Spirit merger is blocked

A Frontier Airlines plane near a Spirit Airlines plane at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 16, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Frontier Airlines&#...

Be ready to pounce on homebuilding stocks when they drop

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that despite conventional wisdom, he believes investors should pick up shares of homebuilding stocks the next time they plummet. “I believe these stocks wil...

Jim Cramer says to pick up shares of Deere for an ‘absurd’ bargain

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday urged investors to purchase shares of Deere at the start of the next trading session. “I’ve told you to buy Deere all year. Liked it even more when Russ...

IBM Shed Half Its Stake in Kyndryl. The Rest Will Follow Soon.

Text size IBM disclosed that it swapped half of its stake in Kyndryl, about 22.3 million shares, along with $46 million in cash, to Goldman Sachs. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images IBM has swapped ha...

Lululemon (LULU) Q1 2022 earnings beat estimates

Lululemon customers so far aren’t balking at higher prices on the retailer’s leggings and sports bras, Chief Executive Officer Calvin McDonald said Thursday. The athletic apparel maker rep...

Buy when Wall Street overlooks ‘textbook bad news’

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday gave investors the go-ahead to buy shares of valuable companies that reported bad news, yet still managed to keep their stocks afloat. “The lack of new, broke...

Vaccinations for children under 5 due as early as June 21

A nurse administers a pediatric dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a girl at a L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination clinic at Los Angeles Mission College in the Sylmar neighborhood in Los Angeles, Californi...

ESPN executive Dave Roberts pushes for more diversity

Dave Roberts Provided by ESPN Dave Roberts is a creature of habit. The ESPN executive, who has emerged as an influential force behind the scenes at the network, prefers to take business meetings at th...

Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook stock sales total $1.7 billion since 2012

Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta as one of the highest-profile and most successful women in tech — and after more than $1.7 billion in stock sales. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she is stepping down fr...

Harvey Weinstein’s sex crime convictions upheld by New York court

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein listens in court during a pre-trial hearing for Weinstein, who was extradited from New York to Los Angeles to face sex-related charges in Los Angeles, California ...

Starbucks union creates $1 million fund to cover lost pay for striking baristas

A protester waves a sign that read "unionize" near the Country Club Plaza Starbucks store where dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested alleged anti-union tactic...