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Hydrow raises millions as at-home fitness industry faces post-Covid reckoning
Hydrow, maker of a $2,500 connected rowing machine, said Thursday it has landed another $55 million in funding to fuel its growth while the at-home fitness industry undergoes a shakeout as consumers r...
Why U.S. bridges are in such bad shape
America’s bridges are in rough shape. More than a third of the nation’s bridges are in need of repair, and over 43,000 are in poor condition and classified as “structurally deficient...
Warby Parker (WRBY) reports Q4 2021 losses
A customer tries on glasses at a Warby Parker store in Los Angeles. Michael Buckner | Getty Images Warby Parker shares sunk in premarket trading Thursday after the eyewear retailer reported continued ...
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold $408 million in company stock since the beginning of the pandemic — averaging roughly $3.6 million a week...
Dollar General, Accenture, Warby Parker and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Dollar General (DG) – Dollar General rallied 5% in the premarket after the discount retailer forecast better-than-expected full-year sales. Do...
Target’s solar panel carports at California store may be a green model
Target has added carport canopies with solar panels to power one of its California stores with renewable energy. The retailer said it will test the approach and may expand it to other locations. Targe...
China Gives Alibaba, Other Stocks a Lifeline. Can It Last?
Text size China said it would roll out market-friendly policies to help boost the stock market. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images With a handful of vague comments about rolling out market-friendly poli...
Binance Gets Business License to Offer Trading Services in Dubai
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced Wednesday that it has obtained a license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) to carry out some busi...
Remember the stock market before the war in Ukraine? JP Morgan says negativity is overblown, offers 4 hedges
“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three we...
SCMP Announces A New Venture Artifact Labs: NFT Business Spin-Off
South China Morning Post newspapers expanded their revenue generation quite creatively by starting to sell NFTs related to historical events previously. The Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are of the...
Charts suggest the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 could be days away from bottoming, Jim Cramer says
Legendary chartist Tom DeMark thinks key U.S. stock market indexes could be days away from reaching a bottom, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. “We’ll be in some more pain before we ...
Remote work shift made new business travel segment
American Express expects remote workers to create new demand for business travel, CEO Steve Squeri told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. “You’re going to have, I believe, a lot more i...
SCMP Spinning Off NFT Business Into New Firm ‘Artifact Labs’
Media organizations are always looking for new sources of revenue beyond selling ads against print copy. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) appears to have found one in selling non-fungible t...
Who could be in the running
Kevin Johnson, CEO, Starbucks Scott Mlyn | CNBC Starbucks‘ board is searching for the coffee giant’s next CEO after Kevin Johnson announced his plan to retire in April. Former CEO Howard S...
Netflix adds Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s show ‘Servant of the People’
Servant of the People is once again available on Netflix in The US. The 2015 satirical comedy series stars Volodymyr Zelenskyy playing a teacher who unexpectedly becomes President after a video of him...
Russian-Ukraine war to lower car production by millions of units
A worker attaches a wiring harness to the chassis of an X model SUV at the BMW manufacturing facility in Greer, South Carolina, November 4, 2019. Charles Mostoller | Reuters DETROIT – The war in Ukrai...
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman leave Fox to host ESPN’s Monday Night Football
Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Joe Buck, left, and analyst Troy Aikman work in the broadcast booth before a preseason NFL football game between the Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars in Miami ...
Here’s what changed in the new Fed statement
This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on Jan. 26. Text removed from the January stat...
NFL Media, Sunday Ticket up for grabs in streaming fight
DK Metcalf, of the Seattle Seahawks, during a Meet & Greet with DIRECTV NFL SUNDAY TICKET subscribers at the DIRECTV NFL SUNDAY TICKET Lounge on Saturday Feb. 1, 2020, in Miami, FL. Peter Barreras...
Aerovironment, Alibaba, Boeing and more
Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduod...
SCMP spins-off NFT business to form ‘Artifact Labs’
TL;DR Breakdown SCMP publishing firm, set to accelerate development of Dapps that bring history to blockchain via Artifact Labs. Publishing firm expanding to form NFT firm. The South China Morning Pos...
Why Fed’s first rate hike since 2018 isn’t the key to economy’s future
The Federal Reserve is about to raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2018, but it’s already time for the market to look past this well-telegraphed move, according to Kathy ...
Why GM Will Drive Its EV Business Into A Wall
Cadillac LYRIQ on April 19, 2021 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wu Kai/VCG via Getty Images) VCG via Getty Images With gasoline prices surging, the timing could not be better for another high-end elect...
NATO chief to Putin ‘stop this war immediately,’ calls for diplomacy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference ahead of the alliance’s Defence Ministers’ meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 15, 2022. Kenzo Tr...