The latest Covid-19 wave during the busy holiday travel season caught the U.S. flat-footed when it came to one key tool in its pandemic-fighting arsenal: at-home rapid tests. “In the United Stat...
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Chevron (CVX) earnings Q4 2021
Journalists are reflected in the sunglasses of drilling site manager Greg Murphy during a media day at Chevron’s site in Pungesti, Romania, April 8, 2014. Bogdan Cristel | Reuters Chevron shares...
U.S. Takes On ‘Crisis’ Of Rising Crash Deaths With Bold, Nationwide Strategy
Road fatalities spiked in the first half of 2021, the largest six-month increase in traffic crash … [+] deaths ever recorded in the federal reporting system’s history. Corbis via Getty Images Th...
The Reasons Why A War In Ukraine Will Make Inflation Worse
A Russian tank rolls during a military drills at Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar region, … [+] Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS With Russia massing troops at ...
Populist nations fared much worse during Covid outbreak, research says
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, delivers a speech at the Fidesz party headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, on April 8, 2018. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg via Getty Images Risk of death from Co...
US and Europe must help Afghanistan humanitarian crisis
Former U.K. prime minister and current U.N. special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, told CNBC that the world must come together to find the $4.4 billion needed to address the humanitarian cr...
Global oil benchmark tops $90 for the first time since 2014
An oil pump at sunset in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 13, 2006. Lucas Schifres | Getty Images Brent crude futures, the international oil benchmark, topped $90 on Wednesday for the fir...
Stock futures are little changed after volatile session
U.S. stock index futures were little changed in overnight trading Monday, after a wildly volatile session that saw the Dow erase a more than 1,100 point decline to finish the day in positive territory...
U.S. Reportedly Preps To Approve Evacuation Of American Diplomats And Their Families From Ukraine As Russia Tensions Intensify
Topline The United States is preparing to approve the evacuation of some American diplomats and their families from Ukraine, ABC News reported Saturday, as fears mount that Russia may launch an invasi...
U.S. Cancels 44 Chinese Airline Flights In Retaliation For China’s Suspension Of Service By U.S. Carriers
Topline The U.S. Department of Transportation is suspending 44 flights from the United States to China by four Chinese airlines, it said Friday, in retaliation for Beijing canceling the same number of...
Banks close record number of branches in 2021, led by Wells Fargo
A man walks past a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a rainy morning in Washington. Gary Cameron | Reuters U.S. banks closed a record number of retail branches in 2021 as customers increasingly turn to digit...
Nasdaq 100 futures fall after Netflix’s earnings disappoint
U.S. stock index futures were lower during overnight trading Thursday following a disappointing earnings report from Netflix, building on the major averages’ declines during regular trading. Fut...
New Jobless Claims Keep Unexpectedly Spiking As Omicron Surge ‘Taints’ Economic Recovery
Topline The number of new unemployment claims unexpectedly jumped for the third week in a row this month—adding to evidence suggesting the record wave of coronavirus cases this month—spurred by the ra...
North Korea Signals It May Resume Nuclear Testing, Prepare For ‘Long-Term Confrontation’ With The U.S.
Topline North Korea on Thursday said it may consider resuming all “temporarily-suspended activities” to bolster its defenses against a “hostile” United States, hinting it may be preparing to end its s...
Sweet-Toothed Shoppers More Than Doubled British Chocolatier’s U.S. Holiday Sales
The U.S. led pre-holidays growth for Hotel Chocolat. (photo by Mike Kemp/In PIctures via Getty … [+] Images) In Pictures via Getty Images A digital-focused strategy delivered growth of 150% over...
U.S. companies are expecting to pay an average 3.4% raise to workers in 2022
U.S. employers expect to pay an average 3.4% raise to their workers in 2022, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey. That projected wage growth is faster than actual raises paid in the prior two y...
Stock futures are flat after sell-off on Wall Street, more bank earnings ahead
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 10, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures were steady in overnight trading on Tuesday foll...
Omicron wave shows early signs of easing in states hit early
A woman is getting a Covid-19 test at a drive through Covid-19 testing center as hundreds of cars and pedestrians line up to get Covid-19 test before Christmas holiday season in North Bergen of New Je...
How the U.S. fell way behind in lithium, ‘white gold’ for EVs
The United States has a lithium supply problem. Nearly every major automaker has announced a transition to electric vehicles, Tesla delivered almost one million cars in 2021, and a handful of new elec...
How U.S. economic sanctions work
Economic sanctions remain one of the most powerful tools the United States has in its foreign policy arsenal. And as Russian forces continue to amass along the border with Ukraine, officials in the U....
One of world’s biggest offshore wind farms gears up for full operation
One of the turbines at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, which is located in waters off England’s east coast. Ian Greenwood Turbine commissioning at one of the world’s biggest offshore ...
Wells Fargo WFC earnings Q4 2021
Wells Fargo signage on May 5th, 2021 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Wells Fargo shares rose on Friday after the bank posted quarterly revenue that exceeded anal...
Stock futures are flat ahead of major bank earnings
U.S. stock index were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, ahead of earnings from the major banks on Friday. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 29 poin...
Omicron Job Loss? Unemployment Claims Unexpectedly Spike One Week After Steep Drop In Jobless Benefits Numbers
Topline The number of new unemployment claims unexpectedly jumped for the second week in a row this month, despite a steep drop in the overall number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits just ...
The Role Of The Connection In The Second Era Of The Connected Car
More and more, the connections between vehicles, devices, infrastructure and the world shall be … [+] enablers for previously unthinkable applications. The role of those connections will likely ...
Despite higher wages, inflation gave average worker a 2.4% pay cut last year
A San Francisco grocery store. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation is taking a big bite out of workers’ paychecks, eroding many of the raises businesses have offered to attrac...