By Kathryn Vasel Your resume can be the first impression you make with a potential employer. So you want to put your best foot forward when crafting one. “This is a storytelling exercise about what makes you so compelling,” said Debra Wheatman, certified resume writer and career coach. “You need to look at this as
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Opinion by Philip Baggaley for CNN Business Perspectives Ever since Covid-19 nearly shut down travel two years ago, US airlines and travelers have been dealing with frustration and uncertainty. They’ve endured several waves of the virus, government-mandated restrictions on travel and service problems as airlines struggled to staff up for a resurgence in demand. All
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business A half-percentage point interest rate hike is officially on the table, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday, as the central bank prepares to get inflation under control. “50 basis points will be on the table for the May meeting,” Powell said during a panel at the International Monetary Fund
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By Clare Sebastian and Chris Liakos, CNN Oleg Tinkov, the billionaire founder of a big Russian digital bank, has blasted Russia’s “insane war” in Ukraine and urged the West to help President Vladimir Putin find an off-ramp to “stop this massacre.” Russia’s brutal assault on its neighbor began nearly two months ago. Thousands of Ukrainian
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Shares of Netflix are imploding after the company reported its first quarterly loss of subscribers in more than a decade, far underperforming expectations and worrying investors that had been betting that a handful of big tech companies would continue to grow at a rapid clip. What’s happening: Netflix’s stock dropped
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Electric vehicles, with their need for lots of expensive batteries, have often trended towards luxury. Electric cars from Porsche, Mercedes, and Audi have all hit the market in recent years. BMW has come out with its own electric cars like the iX and i4 and now the new i7, a
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By Michelle Toh, Jake Kwon and Lizzy Yee, CNN Business Hong Kong’s Covid-19 curbs are continuing to severely limit travel into the city, with only one flight from outside the Asia Pacific region landing on Tuesday and Wednesday. The government recently allowed flights from nine countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States,
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business April is typically a pretty eventful month for the cannabis industry, with 4/20 celebrations bringing abundant attention — and sales. But things have been heating up much earlier this year. In the first four days of April, the US House of Representatives (once again and narrowly) passed a bill to
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The price of goods leaving German factories has passed an eye-watering milestone. German annual producer price inflation topped 30% in March, the country’s Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday. That’s its highest level since the agency began collecting data 73 years ago. The biggest culprit? Energy prices, which rose nearly
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla shareholders have been spending a lot of time following CEO Elon Musk’s grand play to buy Twitter. Come Wednesday night they’ll be focused once again on a company he already controls — Tesla itself. Tesla reports first quarter results after the bell Wednesday. Analysts have a fairly bullish outlook
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Summer travel is right around the corner and travelers may be rethinking their plans as inflation hit 8.5% in March.
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Call Eleven and Sheriff Hopper of “Stranger Things,” because Netflix’s world has been turned upside down. The company reported Tuesday that it lost subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The news shocked Wall Street and sent shares plummeting 35% Wednesday morning, wiping out $50 billion in
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Elon Musk wants everyone to believe he really did have the money secured to take Tesla private back in 2018. But a group suing him over that claim say he didn’t have it, and that the SEC and a federal judge agree. Musk is making the claim as he faces a
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business No more microwaving your Halo Top light ice cream. At least, that’s one goal of the new recipe — which is replacing the old one and currently rolling into stores. Originally, Halo Top cartons instructed customers to “give me a couple of minutes on the counter before you dig in,”
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business More than a dozen US states reached or exceeded their pre-pandemic employment levels in March, and more than one-third have reported record-low unemployment rates, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the nation claws its way back from the stark job losses incurred during the early
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix’s bad 2022 just got much worse. After shares tanked earlier this year because of concerns over its subscriber growth, the streaming leader said that it lost subscribers when it reported first quarter earnings on Tuesday. Netflix now has 221.6 million subscribers globally. It shed 200,000 subscribers in the first
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By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon said it will conduct an audit, led by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to “evaluate any disparate racial impacts” of its policies on its US hourly employees. The move, which Amazon disclosed in a filing late last week, followed shareholder pressure to conduct a racial equity audit to address
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Volkswagen is gunning for Tesla. Tesla is still king, with over 936,000 electric vehicles sold in 2021 and a share of about 14% of the global electric car market. But Volkswagen isn’t far behind. having grabbed about 11% of the market last year and doubled its EV sales compared with
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Disney investors aren’t having as awful a year as Netflix shareholders. But that’s not saying much. Netflix’s stock has plunged more than 40% this year, ahead of its first quarter earnings release after the closing bell Tuesday. Meanwhile, shares of Disney have dropped nearly 15% so far in
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Disney investors aren’t having as awful a year as Netflix shareholders. But that’s not saying much. Netflix’s stock has plunged more than 40% this year, ahead of its first quarter earnings release after the closing bell Tuesday. Meanwhile, shares of Disney have dropped nearly 15% so far in
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