In this article YUM National Guard troops pose for photographers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images In an earnings call Wednesday morning, Yum Brands CEO
Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images While the Federal Reserve raises borrowing costs aggressively to tame stubbornly high inflation, remote work may be serving as an unlikely ally to the U.S. central bank. The Fed increased its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points last week, after having raised it by a similar amount
Burned by a hot housing market, some frustrated home buyers may have hoped that sky-high listing prices are finally coming down to earth. Well, they are – sort of. It just depends on where you live. To better understand the housing affordability situation, Fortune magazine reached out to Moody’s Analytics to get access to its
Topline The stock market rallied on Wednesday, reversing losses from earlier this week thanks to stronger-than-expected economic data which helped offset lingering recession fears, even as Federal Reserve officials continue to promise more rate hikes to bring down inflation. Key Facts Stocks rebounded after back-to-back losing sessions earlier this week: The Dow Jones Industrial Average
In this article WMT Exterior view of a Walmart store on August 23, 2020 in North Bergen, New Jersey VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Walmart confirmed on Wednesday that it has begun to lay off corporate employees about a week after the company slashed its profit outlook and warned that consumers had
In this article ABNB Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder of Airbnb Mike Segar | Reuters Airbnb beat Wall Street estimates for earnings and posted revenue that was in line with estimates for the second quarter. The company also announced a $2 billion share buyback program. Shares were down about 9% after hours, despite what appeared to
A worker assembles the Lucid Air prototype electric vehicle, manufactured by Lucid Motors Inc., at the company’s headquarters in Newark, California, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Lucid Group — Shares of the EV maker tumbled about 12% after
Baby Emma, David or Elizabeth? Not for American parents Caitlin and Luke McNeal. Rather than naming their children after grandparents, biblical figures or the British monarchy, the couple chose the names of places that hold meaningful travel memories for them. “Kinsale was when we lived in Ireland, and we vacationed in Kinsale and fell in
zimmytws | iStock | Getty Images There are just 13 years before Social Security may not be able to pay full benefits, according to a recent annual report from the program’s trustees. In 2035, just 80% of benefits will be payable if Congress doesn’t fix the program sooner. Shoring up the program will generally mean
Fg Trade | E+ | Getty Images Small business confidence has hit an all-time low as the majority of Main Street expects runaway inflation and a Federal Reserve that is incapable of engineering a soft landing for the economy. In fact, the majority of small business owners (57%) taking part in the CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business
Many seniors and retirees are being hit with a double whammy these days: Inflation is quickly approaching 10%, and their retirement investments might have dropped by 10% to 20% due to recent declines in the stock and bond markets. At the same time, however, it’s possible that their home equity has appreciated significantly, which could
Travelers at LaGuardia Airport in New York on June 30, 2022. Leslie Josephs | CNBC The Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed stricter rules on when airlines would have to compensate passengers for canceled or delayed flights, a move that follows a surge in traveler complaints after Covid-19 roiled air travel. Air travelers are currently entitled to
In this article HOOD Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said Tuesday in a press release that the fintech company will reduce its headcount by approximately 23%. The layoffs will be primarily in operations, marketing and program management. In the release, Tenev blamed “deterioration of the macro environment, with inflation at 40-year highs accompanied by a broad
JetBlue Airways passengers in a crowded terminal on April 7, 2022 in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images News | Getty Images It wasn’t long ago that Amazon, Shopify and Peloton doubled their workforces to manage through the pandemic surge, while Morgan Stanley staffed up to handle
Macklemore plays a shot at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at Pebble Beach Golf Links on February 02, 2022 in Pebble Beach, California. Orlando Ramirez | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images The popularity of golf has surged in recent years and during the pandemic, with new golfers and the further spread of non-traditional ways to
Anti-abortion activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, June 13, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Residents of Georgia may now claim embryos as dependents on their state income tax returns. Any “unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat,” may qualify for a $3,000 state income tax deduction for 2022, effective
Photo: Bethenny Frankel “I truthfully didn’t even know the word entrepreneur. I was in my late thirties, and I didn’t know the word ‘brand,’ I didn’t know the word ‘entrepreneur,'” Bethenny Frankel, founder of SkinnyGirl, told Sharon Epperson at the CNBC Small Business Playbook virtual summit on Wednesday. Now, just over a decade later, Frankel
Home buyers have paid a premium for high-fire and high-flood-risk homes during the pandemic, according to research from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. This comes as more people have moved into than out of climate-risky areas in recent years, in part because they can often get more bang for their buck and gain better
Everyone is still paying more than they’d like at the pump. Even after falling from a record high of over $5 per gallon in mid-June, national average gas prices are still $4.50 a gallon, with California tipping the scales of an average price of $5.69 a gallon. There are plenty of reasons for it –
In this article CHTR CMCSA Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast (L), and Tom Rutledge, chief executive officer of Charter Communications Drew Angerer | Getty Images Comcast and Charter, the two largest U.S. cable companies, have a broadband growth problem. As tens of millions of Americans canceled their cable TV subscriptions in the past decade, the