European Central Bank confirms plans for first rate hike in 11 years
By Anna Cooban and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The European Central Bank held off on raising interest rates on Thursday, but confirmed plans for a…
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Could stock trading fees make a comeback?
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business In recent years, brokerages such as Robinhood and Charles Schwab have let users buy and sell stocks online without…
Continue ReadingHow Chris Pratt went from ‘Parks and Recreation’ to ‘Jurassic World’
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Jurassic World: Dominion” hits theaters this weekend, and it features one of the most successful movie…
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CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Jurassic World: Dominion” hits theaters this weekend, and it features one of the most successful…
Continue ReadingPresident Biden talks gun control with Jimmy Kimmel for his first in-person late night appearance
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy…
Continue ReadingJanet Yellen: Stimulus spending contributed only modestly to inflation
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday defended the Biden administration’s 2021 stimulus package against…
Continue ReadingWall Street’s top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The agency that oversees Wall Street has proposed major changes to the way millions of everyday investors buy and…
Continue ReadingFannie and Freddie unveil plans to tackle the racial homeownership gap
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae announced Wednesday a series of actions that aim to make it easier to buy a…
Continue ReadingMETA alert! Facebook’s old FB stock ticker is no more
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business If you want to find the stock price of Mark Zuckerberg’s company, typing the familiar “FB”…
Continue ReadingWall Street’s blank-check boom has gone bust
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The once hot blank-check merger trend is fading fast. The stock market has been cratering so far this year —…
Continue ReadingPresident Biden talks gun control with Jimmy Kimmel for his first in-person late night appearance
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy…
Continue ReadingRising prices are pushing shoppers to dollar stores
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The Great Recession in 2008 pushed struggling Americans to rely more heavily on dollar stores and prompted other…
Continue ReadingOpinion: Black consumers like me want change — not Juneteenth-branded products
CNN Opinion by Lisa Osborne Ross for CNN Business Perspectives During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cup Foods, the…
Continue ReadingExxon’s stock is back from the dead
CNN By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For years, ExxonMobil struggled to court investors as fears about the climate crisis and criticism of its…
Continue ReadingOpinion: Black consumers like me want change — not Juneteenth-branded products
Opinion by Lisa Osborne Ross for CNN Business Perspectives During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cup Foods, the…
Continue ReadingTreasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds
By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Biden administration has issued new investment restrictions that prohibit Americans from buying Russian stocks and…
Continue ReadingAn electric car finally makes financial sense
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Gas prices that keep going up by the day have got a lot of people thinking about buying an electric vehicle.…
Continue ReadingBuy now, pay later users in the UK are racking up debt to pay off their debts
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The growing trend of buying things now but paying for them later is creating a debt trap for many shoppers in the United…
Continue ReadingEU lawmakers support banning gasoline car sales by 2035 in key vote
By Angela Dewan, CNN Members of the European Parliament voted Wednesday to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035, in what would be one…
Continue ReadingThe CEO who fired 900 people over Zoom is accused of misleading investors
By David Goldman, CNN Business Vishal Garg, the Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom just before Christmas, has been sued by a former…
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