By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Saturday Night Live” opened this weekend’s show with Sen. Ted Cruz taking kids to “Ted Cruz Street,” a play on “Sesame Street,” on a channel called “Newsmax Kids.” The Texas senator, who was played by Aidy Bryant, welcomed everyone to the show while standing near a stoop. “Hello, I’m Texas
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Southwest Airlines is the latest carrier to offer new incentives to its employees during the holidays, as airlines gear up to avoid operational delays during a peak travel season. The company is offering operational employees, such as flight attendants and pilots, who work qualifying shifts between November 15 and January
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Unions and management at Kaiser Permanente have reached a tentative agreement that avoids a strike that was to start Monday at 14 West Coast hospitals and hundreds of more clinics and medical offices. The strike would have been by 32,000 nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists and other health care professionals who
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Another day, another billion dollars. Or in Elon Musk’s case, $1.2 billion. A filing late Friday shows that Musk sold another 1.2 million shares of Tesla stock on Friday, at an average price of $1,030 a share. It brings his sales for the week to a total of 6.4 million
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Confused about inflation? You’re not alone. Inflation is, paradoxically, both incredibly simple to understand and absurdly complicated. Let’s start with the simplest version: Inflation happens when prices broadly go up. That “broadly” is important: At any given time, the price of goods will fluctuate based on shifting tastes. Someone makes
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Bummer for bargain hunters: It may be harder to snag designer clothes at T.J. Maxx, Burlington and Ross. These discount chains thrive when there is a glut of clothing in the market. They can scoop in and buy premium apparel and shoe brands’ excess inventory for cheap — and then
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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The biggest news this week in the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes is that the government expects to rest its case against the former CEO and founder of failed blood testing company Theranos in a matter of days. In a surprise disclosure after jurors were excused for a long
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Cryptocurrencies have hit new all-time highs this month as they become more appealing to mainstream investors. Bitcoin, the most popular digital currency, soared to a new all-time high of nearly $70,000 per coin this week. It has climbed almost 125% this year, while the good old S&P 500 is up
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By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Northern Ireland is once again at the center of post-Brexit tensions between the United Kingdom and the European Union, after both sides fired up the rhetoric in recent days before promising to intensify talks. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Brexit minister, David Frost, argue that the Northern Ireland Protocol
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By Kristin Fisher and Pete Muntean, CNN Business One of Blue Origin’s newest astronauts, 49-year-old Glen de Vries, survived a ride to space in October alongside actor William Shatner. But less than a month later, he was killed in a small plane crash on Thursday in New Jersey. “Our thoughts and support go out to
Continue Reading By Kristin Fisher and Pete Muntean, CNN Business One of Blue Origin’s newest astronauts, 49-year-old Glen de Vries, survived a ride to space in October alongside actor William Shatner. But less than a month later, he was killed in a small plane crash on Thursday in New Jersey. “Our thoughts and support go out to
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Just days before his brother started selling billions of dollars worth of Tesla shares, Kimbal Musk, a Tesla board member, sold $108 million worth of his own stock in the company. The dollar value of his sale is dwarfed by his brother Elon’s sale of $5.7 billion worth of Tesla
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Get ready to have this theme song stuck in your head again. “X-Men: The Animated Series” is coming back. “X-Men ’97,” a reboot of the beloved ’90s children’s show that followed the adventures of Marvel’s favorite mutants, will debut new episodes on Disney+ in 2023. The announcement came Friday during
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Taylor Swift fans entered a state of grace on Friday thanks to the artist re-releasing one of her most beloved albums, 2012’s “Red.” Why would one of the biggest names in music — who is already fairly busy releasing multiple albums over the last year and a half — re-record
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business California gas prices hit an average price of $4.658 a gallon Friday, about a penny short of the highest recorded average price of $4.671 for regular gasoline set in October 2012, according to AAA. America’s largest state by population has the highest gas prices in the country. The national average
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business You would think the combination of high inflation, a worker shortage and a talent war would be a winning trifecta for any employee who would like to take home a bigger paycheck next year. And many companies are also reporting strong earnings, if not record ones. “Employees are saying, ‘I’ve
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Breaking up is the newest craze for ginormous global companies. Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba and GE announced plans to split into multiple entities this week. The trend may have only just begun. Conglomerates are big and unwieldy. Wall Street hates them, because it doesn’t know how to value
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Rivian’s stock price soared Thursday, a day after its Wall Street debut, valuing the company at more than $100 billion. It also had the biggest American initial public offering since Facebook. Rivian, which plans to deliver about a thousand consumer vehicles by the end of 2021, is worth more than
Continue Reading By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Rivian’s stock price soared Thursday, a day after its Wall Street debut, valuing the company at more than $100 billion. It also had the biggest American initial public offering since Facebook. Rivian, which plans to deliver about a thousand consumer vehicles by the end of 2021, is worth more than
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By David Goldman and Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Surging prices, a labor shortage and a gummed-up supply chain are making Americans uneasy. The consumer sentiment index fell to a decade low in early November data collected by the University of Michigan. The culprit: pandemic-era inflation woes and worry that no policies are in place to
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