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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The percentage of Americans who say they would “definitely buy” an electric vehicle has more than tripled over the past two years, according to a new survey. That’s a little less impressive than it seems at first glance: It went from just 4% of Americans in 2020 to 14% in

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Former WWE chief executive Vince McMahon paid more than $12 million to four women to cover up “allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity,” according to a Wall Street Journal report. The women, all of whom were involved with WWE, signed agreements with McMahon that “prohibit them from discussing potential legal

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Germany’s biggest landlord will turn down the heat for hundreds of thousands of residents in the coming months as Russia throttles supplies of natural gas. Vonovia, which bills itself as the biggest provider of housing in Germany with 1 million tenants, said Thursday it was trying “to save as much

By Christine Romans, CNN Business It’s “almost impossible” for the Fed to tamp down inflation without tipping the US economy into a recession, says Former IMF Chief Economist Ken Rogoff. “[The Fed] would have to be very lucky,” Rogoff told CNN’s Christine Romans on Early Start. “They have to decide: Do they have to have

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business GameStop has fired its chief financial officer and is preparing to make cuts to its staff. Shares of the company’s volatile stock fell 5% in premarket trading Friday. The stock rose 15% Thursday after the company planned a four-for-one stock split, GameStop did not give a reason for firing CFO

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The highest rate of inflation in decades has forced businesses to raise prices on food and other products once considered sacrosanct. Among the list of inflation casualties: $1 prices at Dollar Tree, the $1 slice of pizza in New York City, Little Caesars’ $5 Hot-N-Ready pizza, McDonald’s dollar drink deals

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business If you follow markets news, you’ve probably seen a few hundred headlines this year akin to: “Stocks slide as red-hot inflation weighs on investors.” At first glance, it’s a perfectly reasonable thesis. Inflation rates are still at 40-year highs and the Fed is serious about raising rates to fight them. Neither is particularly

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy added 372,000 jobs in June, an unexpected boost in hiring and a signal that the labor market remains robust despite recession fears, according to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%, still close to the 52-year low last reached

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India risks damaging its reputation among foreign investors with its “frequent investigations” into Chinese companies, Beijing said this week. China’s embassy in India said in a statement Thursday that probes by Indian authorities into Chinese companies were disrupting “normal business activities” and chilling “the confidence and willingness of market entities

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Lauren Kent, CNN Business Parts of a tabloid article alleging that Prince Harry tried to keep a legal challenge against a British government department a secret were “defamatory,” a UK High Court judge ruled on Friday. The Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) after one of its publications,

By Tami Luhby, CNN Many Americans are struggling to cope with higher prices for food, gas, housing and other essentials. But inflation has taken an even heavier toll on certain segments of the population. Black and Hispanic Americans have been grappling with higher inflation rates than the national average since prices began surging in March

Opinion by Henry Fernandez for CNN Business Perspectives If the world hopes to limit the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius — the level scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — total greenhouse gas emissions must peak before 2025 and decline 43% by 2030, according to the

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business American Airlines has agreed to pay its pilots triple their normal rate after a computer scheduling glitch left thousands of flights with understaffed cockpits. The malfunction in the scheduling program occurred early Saturday morning and allowed pilots to drop flights the airline was counting on them to fly throughout the

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Pringles and spiders are probably two things you don’t associate with each other — until now. The Kellogg-owned brand is petitioning the “arachnid community” to recognize the little-known Kidney Garden spider as the Pringles Spider. The reason, the snack food maker says, is because it has an uncanny resemblance to