Money

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The number of major strikes jumped 43% to 33 in 2023, according to the official Labor Department count released Wednesday, the biggest number of large work stoppages in America in more than 20 years. There were 462,000 workers who were on strike at some point in 2023,

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Major League Baseball players will be wearing new jerseys this season. Some fans and players already hate them. Fans are complaining that the jerseys, which were designed by Nike and manufactured by Fanatics, look cheap. The fabric is flimsy, they say. The MLB logo is lower down

By Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night responded to a lawsuit filed by former Rep. George Santos, mocking the disgraced politician’s legal action as “preposterous.” “Did anyone else get sued by George Santos this weekend? I am currently embroiled in what may be the most preposterous lawsuit of all

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa athlete who last week became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women’s basketball, is breaking more records. Clark’s jerseys and shirts bearing her name are flying off the (virtual) shelves at Fanatics, with the guard becoming the online retailer’s top-selling college

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Dunkin’ is adding an energy drink to its menu to capture some of the buzz generated by heavily caffeinated beverages, which are surging in popularity. But the menu addition comes with a risk: Panera Bread is facing multiple lawsuits over its its own energy drink. Beginning Wednesday,

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Harvard University and its interim president have condemned an image circulated on social media by pro-Palestinian campus groups, prompting the groups to remove and apologize for the posting. The cartoon, shared on Instagram accounts belonging to the Harvard Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine group, the

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Apple is taking an even bigger swing at sports. The company on Wednesday launched Apple Sports, a free app for the iPhone that delivers real-time scores, key statistics, and live betting odds. At launch, users will have access to live data from the NBA, NHL, and MLS, among other

By John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — Red Lobster is in trouble. Its solution: all-you-can-eat lobster, just months after an endless shrimp promotion led to deep losses that the company is still trying to dig out of. In celebration of its annual Lobsterfest, Red Lobster is giving 150 winners an “Endless Lobster Experience,” a two-hour complimentary

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — HSBC posted a big drop in quarterly profit Wednesday after taking a $3 billion hit on its stake in China’s Bank of Communications (BoCom) and another charge related to exposure to the country’s troubled real estate industry. The Asia-focused lender reported an 80% drop in pretax profit

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Uber Eats customers in Japan can soon have an autonomous robot deliver their food on the streets of Tokyo. Uber announced a partnership Tuesday between robotics firm Cartken and Japanese industrial titan Mitsubishi Electric to launch autonomous sidewalk robots that will start delivering Eats orders in parts of Tokyo

By Samantha Delouya, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon on Monday was officially added to Wall Street’s most venerable stock index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P Dow Jones Indices, which manages the index, said last week that Walgreens Boots Alliance would be getting the boot from the 30-stock index. The change is intended to

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — What’s in your wallet? Capital One is making a $35 billion bet that the answer will soon be: more of its credit cards. The bank announced Monday evening it is acquiring Discover Financial Services (DFS) in a $35.3 billion all-stock deal. If approved by regulators and shareholders,

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Macy’s rejected an unsolicited $6 billion bid from an activist investor to take the famed department store private last month. Now, the activist group is taking another shot at Macy’s, launching a proxy fight to take control of the board. Arkhouse Management Co., a real estate investment

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — More than 400 Teamsters are on strike at the Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth, Texas, impacting production for North America’s second largest brewer. The work stoppage, which began Saturday, comes ahead of a March 1 strike deadline that the Teamsters have set for 5,000 members at

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted. But details remain sparse, and other companies working on brain-computer interfaces appear to have so far cleared more technological hurdles than Neuralink.

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Lionel Messi’s debut in his first full Major League Soccer season might not cost fans the extraordinary prices seen last year for his first-ever game with Inter Miami, but they do show that “Messi Mania” hasn’t diminished despite his rocky preseason. The average purchase price for MLS’

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Sharan White-Jenkins is a proud Black homeowner in Jamaica, Queens, in New York City. She’s part of a line of homeowners that goes back to her grandparents, who purchased a home on the Virginia plantation land where the family had worked as slaves. “Homeownership in our family

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Wyze, a smart camera maker, said that some users last week saw footage from cameras that weren’t their own because of a security glitch. In an email to users sent Monday, the company said an outage that lasted several hours last Friday briefly left camera footage inaccessible

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Checking a bag on American Airlines will now cost you more than at every other major US airline. The carrier announced Tuesday that the price of the first checked bag on most flights is increasing to $40 for customers that didn’t prepay online. It will cost $35

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Home Depot, a bellwether of the housing market and US economy, said sales dropped over the winter and it’s a expecting a slow 2024. Sales at stores open for at least one year fell 3.5% last quarter, and Home Depot projects that sales will continue to decline