By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Many people don’t have the time or inclination to do deep research on stocks. It’s often easier to buy an exchange-traded fund that owns a basket of the top blue chips, like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. Other investors like to bet on themes and memes instead of poring over
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India‘s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine. Indeed, so revered are the animals that authorities had planned to rebrand this Valentine’s Day as “Cow Hug Day”, hoping the move would both boost citizens’ “emotional richness” and strike
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Let’s be honest: For much of the past decade, tech events have been pretty boring. Executives in business casual wear trot up on stage and pretend a few tweaks to the camera and processor make this year’s phone profoundly different than last year’s phone or adding a touchscreen onto
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business After years of parts shortages, the average price people paid for a new car in America only recently dropped back below sticker. But this ignores a larger issue: Even pre-pandemic, sticker prices were steadily ticking higher as buyers load up on options. Two decades of historic data from auto website
Continue Reading By Brian Rokus, CNN The US Commerce Department is restricting six Chinese companies tied to the Chinese army’s aerospace programs from obtaining US technology without government authorization. The move comes after a Chinese balloon suspected of carrying out surveillance flew over the US last week, raising political tensions between the world’s two largest economies. US
Continue Reading By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Sitting across from Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show,” Paris Hilton, wearing a sparkling neon green turtleneck dress and a high ponytail, looked at a picture of a glum cartoon ape and said it “reminds me of me.” The audience laughed. It did not look like her at
Continue Reading By Ross Levitt, CNN The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating a near miss incident on the JFK runway last month, has issued a subpoena for the testimony of the American Airlines pilots involved. “American Airlines cleared the flight crew’s schedule to ensure their availability; however, the flight crew refused to be interviewed on
Continue Reading By Diksha Madhok, CNN As Apple looks beyond China to secure crucial supply chains strained by Covid lockdowns and threatened by rising geopolitical tension, India has emerged as an attractive potential alternative to the world’s second largest economy. And Beijing’s big regional rival isn’t missing a beat in talking up the opportunity. One of India’s
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Super Bowl revelers are likely to pay more for their favorite party foods this year as inflation continues to squeeze budgets.
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN The Consumer Product Safety Commission reiterated its warning about the hazards of some popular Baby Trend-brand strollers Friday, which led to the death of a toddler and injury of another. On Thursday, the CPSC and Baby Trend warned consumers about a head or neck entrapment risk on the Sit N’ Stand
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN December consumer prices rose from the month before and did not fall as previously thought, according to revised data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. The newly calibrated Consumer Price Index shows that prices rose 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in December from November versus a previously estimated
Continue Reading By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Sitting across from Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show,” Paris Hilton, wearing a sparkling neon green turtleneck dress and a high ponytail, looked at a picture of a glum cartoon ape and said it “reminds me of me.” The audience laughed. It did not look like her at
Continue Reading By Alayna Treene and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN A Jewish lawmaker who spoke about the problem of antisemitism on Twitter during a House Oversight hearing this week focused on the company was later bombarded with antisemitic messages on the platform, he explained in a letter to new owner Elon Musk on Thursday. “What happened on Twitter
Continue Reading By Alayna Treene and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN A Jewish lawmaker who spoke about the problem of antisemitism on Twitter during a House Oversight hearing this week focused on the company was later bombarded with antisemitic messages on the platform, he explained in a letter to new owner Elon Musk on Thursday. “What happened on Twitter
Continue Reading By Parija Kavilanz, CNN When you’re the last lone surviving store in any industry, you’ve earned the right to have fun and hype it up. That’s exactly what the only remaining store of the Blockbuster video rental chain is doing, and it’s during the Super Bowl. And it helps if you still have a VCR,
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy and Betsy Klein, CNN The White House says President Joe Biden will not sit down for an interview with Fox before the Super Bowl, ending a strange back and forth between the Biden administration and the television network with which it frequently spars. Earlier Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business For those who really don’t want a long term commitment but who may try out living with an electric vehicle, Hyundai is starting a car subscription service. Hyundai’s new Evolve+ program is designed for the “EV-curious,” or for those who only need a car temporarily, like “snowbirds” who move to
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN With more states legalizing gambling on sports, Super Bowl LVII will probably be the biggest event for the industry ever. The American Gaming Association is predicting that more than 50 million people will bet about $16 billion on the National Football League championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs
Continue Reading Story by Clare Duffy, CNN Graphics by Christopher Hickey, CNN More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform in the first weeks of January, according to data provided to CNN by digital marketing analysis firm Pathmatics by Sensor Tower, in a striking sign of how far
Continue Reading By Jessie Gretener and Olesya Dmitracova, CNN South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster in response to the country’s drawn-out energy crisis, calling it “an existential threat” to Africa’s most developed economy. Setting out the government’s key objectives for the year in a state of the nation address Thursday, Ramaphosa
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