New York CNN Business — Retailers have already signaled big sales are coming for the holidays — with one major, sparkly exception. Stores are looking to offload overstocks of clothes, shoes, toys, gadgets and furniture. But jewelry might evade all that deep discounting. That’s because holiday jewelry sales have been on fire over the last […]
New York CNN Business — Amazon is adding another Prime Day to the calender. The company announced Monday that the sale, called “Prime Early Access Sale,” will take place October 11-12. The 48-hour event is only for members of its Prime subscription program and will feature discounts on “hundreds of thousands” of items. “Prime Early […]
New York CNN Business — Lisa Altman used to take pride in being able to eat what she wanted without worrying much about the cost. When she was growing up, seconds weren’t served and side dishes were rare. “My mom had a budget every week, and she stuck to it,” she said. “As I got […]
CNN Business — When Iranian authorities pulled the plug on the internet in 2019 amid anti-government protests, the international community struggled to track the civilian carnage that followed. The people of Iran had taken to the streets to demonstrate after fuel prices surged as much as 300% overnight. The New York Times reported at the […]
New York CNN Business — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill Thursday for the second straight day. This time, he faced his longtime critic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren began her line of questioning by asking how many instances of fraud had been reported to his bank from customers using Zelle, a popular […]
Americans looking to buy or rent a home have had a rough year. Rents are up by double-digit percentages in some cities. Meanwhile, buying a home is the most unaffordable it has been since the mid-1980s. Mortgage rates have surpassed 6% and home prices remain just off the record highs hit in recent months, pricing […]
CNN — With Category 4 Hurricane Fiona poised to sideswipe Bermuda later this week, people in the storm’s deadly wake still faced days without basic utilities Wednesday – including much of Puerto Rico, where most were left without power and running water. Only about 395,200 of Puerto Rico’s 1.5 million utility customers had power by […]
New York CNN Business — Well, it was nice while it lasted. After sinking every day for more than three months, US gas prices edged higher — by a penny — to $3.68 a gallon, on average Wednesday, according to AAA. That ends 98 consecutive days of falling pump prices, the second-longest such streak on […]
Hong Kong CNN Business — One of China’s most popular livestreamers quietly resurfaced online Tuesday night, after a three-month absence linked to his appearance with a cake shaped like a tank, in what many believed was an oblique reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre. On Tuesday night, Li Jiaqi reappeared on Alibaba’s Taobao Live, a […]
New York CNN Business — So much for Wall Street sitting back and taking it easy while awaiting the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision on Wednesday. Stocks slid Tuesday as investors grew anxious about the impact of another big rate hike. The Dow fell more than 450 points, or 1.5%, in midday trading. The […]