Singer John Legend at the PLUS launch event in New York City Tom Vickers Casper, the bed-in-a-box start-up that reached a $1 billion valuation selling mattresses over the internet, is getting more serious about providing customers better sleep. This week it launched a new line of melatonin and CBD-infused gummies in partnership with Plus Products,
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Fans of hit TV series Downton Abbey now have the opportunity to live like a “Lord or Lady” for a night at the prestigious stately home. To mark the release of the “Downton Abbey” movie, the owners of Highclere Castle — the set of the BBC’s iconic period drama — have listed their home on
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Democrats should focus on making improvements to Obamacare instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with “Medicare for All,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. “God bless” 2020
Source: VENN Gaming is getting its own network. The Video Game Entertainment and New Network, or VENN, has raised $17 million in seed round funding to launch a network that will focus on gaming and esports entertainment. VENN will launch in 2020 with two live studios, one in New York and one in Los Angeles.
Children pose for pictures with Santa Claus at a shopping mall in Torrance, California. Patrick Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retailers could be in for a jolly jump in sales this holiday season, despite headwinds like the U.S.-China trade war and the threat of another economic slowdown. Holiday retail sales for 2019 are forecast
Ola Kaellenius, CEO of German car maker Mercedes, stands in front of a Mercedes Vision EQS car as he addresses a press conference on September 10, 2019 on the fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, where preparations are under way for the International Auto Show (IAA). Daniel Roland | AFP | Getty Images
Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq after drone attacks sparked fires at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities. AFP | Getty Images The attacks on critical oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend will “effectively” wipe out the world’s spare oil capacity, an expert from S&P Global Platts said on Monday. Drone strikes attacked
Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington Lindsey Wasson | Reuters A committee is set to deliver its findings to Boeing’s board this week on how the company can design and build safer airplanes after the fatal crashes of two 737 Max jets, The
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Drew Angerer | Getty Images New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced an emergency executive action ban on the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in the state, amid a surge of vaping-related illnesses and deaths across the country. “Vaping is dangerous. Period,” the governor said. “No one can sit
On their first trading day in May 2019, shares of Beyond Meat soared 163%. It was the best performance for an IPO in nearly two decades. At one point in 2019, Beyond Meat was bigger than 25% of companies in the S&P 500. Beyond Meat shares rode a perfect storm. Beyond Meat was the first
Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat, center, celebrates with his wife Tracy Brown, center left, and guests during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Based on the terrible public market performance of
This past week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its mid-year report. It showed that 80% of the of music industry’s revenue comes from streaming, but it also showed that revenue from sales of vinyl records is on track to overtake that of compact discs by the year’s end, should current trends continue.
The timeline for a potential trade deal between Washington and Beijing remains unclear, so CNBC’s Jim Cramer decided to take another look at stocks with high exposure to China before earnings season approaches. “Let’s play a little game, I call it hostage versus non-hostage,” the host of “Mad Money” said Friday. “As in, which companies
SmileDirectClub‘s rocky initial public offering can be attributed to an aggressive asking price, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. But the “Mad Money” host admits he is unsure of what price he would pay for the upstart orthodontics company’s stock. “I don’t know what the right price is for SDC, but I do know I wouldn’t
Musician Eddie Money performs on stage during the iHeart80s Party 2017 at SAP Center on January 28, 2017 in San Jose, California. Tim Mosenfelder | Getty Images Eddie Money, famed singer of “Two Tickets to Paradise,” has died at age 70. Money’s publicist provided a statement to the Associated Press from the musician’s family saying
Everlane, a socially minded clothing company, needed to open brick-and-mortar stores because “basically” no online-only companies are profitable, CEO Michael Preysman told CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Preysman, who founded Everlane in 2011, made his remarks to the “Mad Money” host from the company’s brand-new store in Williamsburg, a hip neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. “What online-only
Daenerys Targaryen is one of the key characters that can speak High Valyrian in Game of Thrones. Source: HBO There’s another “Game of Thrones” prequel series in the works, according to several reports, and this one will focus on the Targaryen family. Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter and Variety all reported Thursday that the show is
Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on August 19, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Some market moving events unfolded between the close of U.S. stock markets on Wednesday and the open on Thursday. With both the Dow
Last week, Jim Cramer held his annual fantasy stock draft, and the “Mad Money” host now is helping investors scan the market “waiver wire” to find some bargains. “That’s some authentic fantasy football gibberish that means trying to pick up some bargains, players not signed by other teams that have turned out to be interesting
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of President Donald Trump, departs the U.S. Capitol after testifying before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2019. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate in an investigation into whether the Trump Organization falsified business records, a source familiar