By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Wonder what those green and yellow tiles all over your social media feeds are? It’s Wordle, a new no-frills word game that has charmed the internet. Think of it as Mastermind, but with words instead of colored pegs. Or a mini crossword without clues. You start by choosing any five-letter
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Looking to buy Nike sneakers, Adidas sweats, Crocs clogs, Polo shirts or Canada Goose parkas? You’re likely to have better luck these days snagging them from their own stores or on their websites than at mom-and-pops and smaller chains. These major brands and other top shoe and clothing labels are
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If you haven’t secured a raise in a while, now’s the time to make your move. Yes, inflation is high, supply chains are still a mess, unionization efforts are taking root across industries and retail theft is on the rise — all legitimate headaches for employers. But Corporate America has
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Amazon is shortening its Covid-19 isolation policy to seven days from 10, for a total of up to 40 hours of paid leave, the company announced to employees Friday. The policy change is effective immediately and applies to all its US employees regardless of vaccination status. The decrease in paid
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business In a turbulent year when the pandemic continued to upend the business of movie-going and streaming blockbusters at home became commonplace, one thing returned to normal: Disney topped the box office. Disney was Hollywood’s top studio in North America last year with a 25% market share at the box office.
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business The calendar changed, but the roller coaster ride for GameStop’s stock continues. GameStop shares jumped as much as 20% Friday morning after the Wall Street Journal reported the company is creating a nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace. After a wild 2021 for the video game retailer as a “meme stock”
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business The calendar changed, but the roller coaster ride for GameStop’s stock continues. GameStop shares jumped as much as 20% Friday morning after the Wall Street Journal reported the company is creating a nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace. After a wild 2021 for the video game retailer as a “meme stock”
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business 2021 was a historically great year for jobs. So why didn’t it feel that way? The short answers: Economists were befuddled. You were paying closer-than-usual attention. And months after a series of bad headlines subsided, the job situation quietly improved. Confused? Don’t worry. Pretty much everyone is. We’ll take you
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Papa Johns is making a big bet on China. The pizza chain plans to open over 1,350 stores in South China by 2040 in partnership with the Asian private equity firm FountainVest Partners, it said on Friday. The deal will increase Papa Johns current global count by 25%, and marks
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Kanye West is expanding his sellout Yeezy Gap line by bringing on luxury fashion powerhouse brand Balenciaga. Gap announced Friday that the tieup, branded as “Yeezy Gap Engineered By Balenciaga,” pairs Ye’s creative vision with Balenciaga’s creative director, Demna Gvasalia. Gvasalia is the 40-year-old Georgian designer who has been designing
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By Allison Morrow and Anneken Tappe, CNN Business One of the more insidious myths this year was that young people didn’t want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative. Only trouble is, the numbers don’t back it up. Instead, early retirement —
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By Tami Luhby, Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Part of this story was included in a previously published story that ran on CNN Business in November. Workers are walking away from their jobs in record numbers. In November, 4.5 million people quit their jobs, according to data from the Labor Department released earlier this week. And
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The jobs recovery may be losing steam. But the unemployment rate continued to fall, and workers are still bringing home bigger paychecks. Investors don’t seem sure what to think about those mixed messages. Stocks closed lower Friday after the US government reported that just 199,000 jobs were added
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If you haven’t secured a raise in a while, now’s the time to make your move. Yes, inflation is high, supply chains are still a mess, unionization efforts are taking root across industries and retail theft is on the rise — all legitimate headaches for employers. But Corporate America has
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Opinion by Jim Himes for CNN Business Perspectives For far too many American children, the race is over before it really begins. Arbitrary factors like zip code, race and gender are determining whether those children prosper or are consigned to poverty. About half of children born into poverty in the US will spend at least
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Apple, Microsoft, SoFi and Coinbase all sold off sharply this week, as investors, anticipating higher interest rates, dumped tech stocks and bought shares of companies they believed were undervalued. Given some time, however, Randy Frederick, Schwab managing director of trading and derivatives, thinks certain tech companies will fare better than
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Apple, Microsoft, SoFi and Coinbase all sold off sharply this week, as investors, anticipating higher interest rates, dumped tech stocks and bought shares of companies they believed were undervalued. Given some time, however, Randy Frederick, Schwab managing director of trading and derivatives, thinks certain tech companies will fare better than
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Retailers have always been vulnerable to shoplifting. But the emergence of coordinated and organized robberies at high-value stores, even during shopping hours, has the industry on edge. In November, a group of 14 individuals barged into a Louis Vuitton store in Oakbrook, Illinois, while customers were inside and audaciously drove
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US economy added 199,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was the fewest jobs added in any month of 2021. That was a major disappointment: Economists had forecast jobs growth of double that number. So how could forecasts be so off again? “We just have to
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By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Political turmoil in Kazakhstan is hitting the country’s vast bitcoin mining industry. The Central Asian nation plunged into chaos as violent protests sparked by rising fuel prices left dozens killed and hundreds injured. As part of the mayhem, internet and telecommunications cuts have been reported nationwide — and that’s having
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