By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday at a Washington, DC, hospital of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, Shaw’s family announced Thursday. Shaw was 82. Shaw was CNN’s first chief anchor and was with the network when it launched on June 1, 1980. He retired from CNN after more than 20 years
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors revealed a new electric SUV Thursday that the automaker expects will be the cheapest compact electric SUV on the market when it goes into product in about a year. The Chevrolet Equinox EV will have a starting price around $30,000 which, at any rate, will make it among
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday at a Washington, DC, hospital of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, Shaw’s family announced Thursday. Shaw was 82. Shaw was CNN’s first chief anchor and was with the network when it launched on June 1, 1980. He retired from CNN after more than 20 years
Continue Reading Opinion by Gad Levanon for CNN Business Perspectives So far this year, the US economy has managed to skirt a recession, despite what many experts predicted. But even while the labor market remains strong, there isn’t much to celebrate in the foreseeable future. We could still very well find ourselves in a recession over the
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Despite fears of a recession, the labor market is showing no signs of weakening. The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell by 6,000 to 222,000 for the week ended September 3, according to Department of Labor data released Thursday. The initial weekly claims figure, which is at its
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business There are summer blockbusters, and then there’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” The Paramount film, featuring Tom Cruise‘s return to the skies as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell decades after the hit 1986 original, won the domestic box office over the Labor Day weekend — bringing in $7.9 million for the four-day holiday. That
Continue Reading By Mark Thompson, CNN Business The European Central Bank hiked interest rates by a record three-quarters of a percentage point on Thursday and promised more to come as it scrambles to contain the inflationary fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis. The move will take the benchmark rate for the 19
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Jeep will bring out three new all-electric SUVs over the next few years as it moves toward selling only electric vehicles in Europe by 2030 and having half its sales in the US be all-electric by then, too. Executives for the off-road SUV brand also indicated that more fully electric
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The US dollar can’t be stopped. Fueled by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening policy, the value of the greenback is appreciating to multi-decade highs and squashing currencies around the world. Typically, it’s emerging-market countries that shoulder the burden of a strong dollar. That’s because developing countries have been encouraged by
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent and Anna Cooban, CNN Business The United Kingdom on Thursday confirmed plans to subsidize energy bills for households and businesses, joining other European governments in a costly race to protect their economies from freezing up this winter as Russia cuts off supplies of gas. The UK plan could cost as much as
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh and Swati Gupta, CNN Business Amazon will halt the sale of devices that can disable seatbelt alarms in India following a request from the government. The Transport Ministry told CNN Business on Thursday that it had sent a notice to Amazon, ordering it to take down listings of replacement seatbelt clips that
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, CNN Big oil companies are spending millions to portray themselves as taking action on climate change, but their investments and lobbying activities don’t live up to their planet-friendly claims, according to a new report. An analysis from London-based energy and climate think-tank InfluenceMap found that the amount of climate-positive messaging used by
Continue Reading By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon CEO Andy Jassy isn’t looking to force the company’s workers back into the office anytime soon. “We don’t have a plan to require people to come back,” Jassy said at the Code Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday. “But we’re going to proceed adaptively as we learn.” The online
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Apple announced a forthcoming satellite connectivity feature called Emergency SOS via Satellite at its iPhone 14 launch event. The tool is intended to help people using the company’s next-generation phones to communicate when their cell service isn’t working — a process that Apple said took years to
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The days of using a paper clip to perform microsurgery to extract a tiny SIM card from a little tray in your iPhone may be coming to an end. At its closely-watched press event this week, Apple revealed that it is ditching the physical SIM cards and trays on its
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple unveiled its new iPhone 14 lineup at a press event on Wednesday, along with three new Apple Watch models, an update to its popular AirPods product line and a feature that could save lives when cell service isn’t available. At a closely-watched event from its headquarters in Cupertino,
Continue Reading By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The Tesla Model Y received the highest grade of any vehicle in a European safety test that ranked driver-assist systems like the automaker’s controversial Autopilot system. The 2022 Model Y’s 98% score in the “safety assist” category, which evaluated safety technologies like lane-keeping and automatic emergency braking, beat out vehicles
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business The US military is racking up deals with commercial rocket companies to explore the idea of using rockets typically tasked with launching satellites or astronauts to shuttle military cargo around the world at record speeds. The companies so far tapped to join the military in exploring ways to bring that
Continue Reading By Matt Egan Oil prices dropped sharply on Wednesday, deepening a selloff that has already brought relief to drivers at the gas pump. US oil tumbled 5.1% to $82.41 a barrel in recent trading. That’s the lowest intraday price since January 24. US crude is now down by more than one-third since briefly hitting $130
Continue Reading By Matt Egan Oil prices dropped sharply on Wednesday, deepening a selloff that has already brought relief to drivers at the gas pump. US oil tumbled 5.1% to $82.41 a barrel in recent trading. That’s the lowest intraday price since January 24. US crude is now down by more than one-third since briefly hitting $130
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