By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business In 2020, Joe DiPastena felt confident enough to retire earlier than planned. But by 2022, he was having second thoughts. “When the economy started to tank and my investments started to dwindle…I started to get pretty nervous,” said DiPastena, who lives in Phoenix. “I didn’t want to deplete my savings.”
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business This week, two of the most passionate communities online — gamers and cat lovers — collided with the release of a new video game that lets you play as an adorable orange tabby cat. “Stray“, created by indie French game company BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Jordan Peele is hoping to go three-for-three at the box office. The director’s third movie, “Nope,” opens this weekend, and despite a plot shrouded in mystery it’s one of the most anticipated films of the year. The Universal Pictures film, which stars Daniel Kaluuya as a Hollywood horse wrangler dealing
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s third movie, opened to an estimated $44 million this weekend in North America, according to Universal Pictures. The science-fiction film, which stars Daniel Kaluuya as a Hollywood horse wrangler dealing with some extra-terrestrial problems, was expected to make around $50 million this weekend, according to initial projections.
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Is America’s economy already in a recession? That’s a debate among central bankers, investors and economists, not to mention politicians. But one thing is clear: Some consumers, especially less affluent ones, are starting to have trouble paying their bills on time. Results from credit card companies and wireless
Continue Reading Opinion by Jung Hyun Choi and Daniel Pang for CNN Business Perspectives Over the past year, both rents and home prices have risen faster than inflation, and the surge in housing prices has outpaced wage growth. But renters — who were already more financially vulnerable than homeowners before the pandemic — are bearing the brunt
Continue Reading Martha C. White The recovery wasn’t supposed to go like this. Wall Street and Main Street alike are suffering from whiplash when it comes to the current state of the US economy. In their roles as consumers, investors and members of the workforce, ordinary Americans have the sense that the country is at an economic
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s battle with Elon Musk is weighing on its business. The company on Friday reported revenue of $1.18 billion for the three months ending in June, a decline of 1% from the prior year. Twitter attributed the sales drop in part to “uncertainty” related to Musk’s pending acquisition, which he
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business An average 347 million people use Snapchat every day. That’s a fraction of the nearly 2 billion daily active users on Facebook, its biggest competitor. But parent company Snap’s warning on the economy — coupled with its dismal results — is bringing down the market. Hopefulness about earnings season is
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business An average 347 million people use Snapchat every day. That’s a fraction of the nearly 2 billion daily active users on Facebook, its biggest competitor. But parent company Snap’s warning on the economy — coupled with its dismal results — is bringing down the market. Hopefulness about earnings season is
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The German government has stepped in to bail out one of its biggest energy companies — the latest casualty of Europe’s natural gas crisis. Gas distributor Uniper will receive up to €15 billion ($15.3 billion) from the government after months of Russian supply cuts and soaring spot market prices have
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Susie Ingram has been a coupon-clipper all her life. “It has saved me a lot of money over the years,” said the 62-year-old resident of DeBary, Florida. She clips coupons and redeems them at her local Winn-Dixie supermarket to save on cereal, toilet paper, coffee, and snacks for her grandson,
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business China’s banking regulator has pledged to boost lending to help developers finish stalled property projects and boost buyers’ demand, as a growing mortgage boycott by homebuyers exacerbates the country’s real estate woes. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) reiterated Thursday that it will provide “active credit support” for
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business One month ago, Li Jiaqi disappeared from the internet. The 30-year-old livestreamer, also known as Austin Li, was — until recently — one of China’s biggest internet celebrities, with 64 million followers on Taobao, an online shopping platform. He once sold 15,000 lipsticks within five minutes in a sales competition
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN US telecom providers will now be required to block millions of illegal robocalls a day advertising extended vehicle warranties, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday, taking aim at a group of individuals accused of sending more than 8 billion such messages since 2018. Thursday’s order by the FCC requires voice providers
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Snap’s rough year continues. Shares of Snapchat’s parent company tanked more than 25% in after-hours trading Thursday after it posted even worse sales growth results for the three months ended in June than it had expected. Snap last month warned investors that the economy had worsened faster than it expected,
Continue Reading By Chiara Grimes, CNN Business Mattel, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has entered into a multi-year, worldwide agreement with SpaceX to create a line of rocket- and astronaut-themed toys “to cater to the inner explorer in every child.” Not only is this targeted at younger age groups but also to collectors. The company said it
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Between 2020 and 2022, stocks shot toward the moon. This year, they’ve been jettisoned back to Earth. The S&P 500 is down about 18% year-to-date, inflation rates are at 40-year highs, geopolitical chaos abounds and a recession is looming. The easy-money environment that many investors grew accustomed to over the
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Domino’s is still struggling with delivery. “The delivery business continued to be more pressured,” in the second quarter due to staffing problems, said CFO Sandeep Reddy during an analyst call Thursday. Delivery sales at stores open at least a year fell 11.7% year-over-year in the second quarter, he said. In
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Bitcoin prices were cooling off Thursday following a big spike in the past week. And it appears Elon Musk might be partly to blame. The price of one bitcoin fell 3% Thursday to about $23,000 after Tesla disclosed in its latest earnings report Wednesday that it sold about
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