CNN – Business/Consumer

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Last year, Ikea slashed prices on roughly 2,000 products to give inflation-weary customers a break. Although that sparked an increase in orders, revenue fell for the first time in four years as discounts took a bite out of its bottom line. Sales slipped 4% to €45.1 billion

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Delta Air Lines reported a profitable third quarter, as the airline weathered a $500 million hit from a July service meltdown related to the CrowdStrike computer outage, as well as the impact of Hurricane Helene at the end of the quarter. The airline had to cancel about

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk and Tesla have pledged a game-changing moment in the company’s history Thursday night. It remains to be seen if they will actually deliver. For the last decade, the electric vehicle maker’s CEO has vowed that true self-driving cars from Tesla were right around the corner.

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Global investors went wild during China’s just-concluded Golden Week holiday by snapping up “everything” related to the country. But that optimism didn’t extend to shoppers and travelers in the world’s second-largest economy itself. Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a Tuesday research note that tourism revenue per person

By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs filed a motion late Wednesday accusing the government of leaking a video of the hip-hop mogul beating his former girlfriend and other evidence to the media, asking a judge to potentially bar the footage from a trial. The motion filed in the Southern

By Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Hopes for avoiding a recession are growing on Wall Street. Now, investors are looking for the coming earnings season to support that optimism. Companies in the S&P 500 reporting third-quarter results are expected to have posted a 3.7% rise in profits from the prior year, according to

By Deepak Rao and Abel Alvarado, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Ratan Tata, the former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Group, has died at the age of 86, according to a statement from the firm. The industrialist rose to global prominence with a series of high-profile international deals. In 2008, he famously oversaw Tata Motors’ purchase

By Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Shari Redstone, the chair of CBS parent company Paramount Global, said Wednesday that CBS leadership had made a “bad mistake” with their handling of “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil’s contentious interview last week with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In stark opposition to what CBS editorial

By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — For the first time since AT&T was dismantled into Baby Bells four decades ago, the US government is weighing the breakup of one of the world’s largest and most consequential monopolies: Google. The US Department of Justice in a court filing Tuesday night said it may

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Hoping your company will begin paying for anti-obesity medications like Wegovy? You may be in luck. A growing number of employers are considering covering the blockbuster weight-loss drugs, several surveys show. Workers will learn whether they’ll gain such coverage for the coming year during open enrollment, which launches this

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing and the union that represents 33,000 striking employees at the company say talks between the two have broken down and no new talks are scheduled. Two days of federally mediated talks this week concluded with the two sides still far apart, said Stephanie Pope, the CEO

By Jon Sarlin, CNN (CNN) — The identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has long been one of the biggest mysteries of the internet age. A new HBO documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” claims to have an answer. Yet the man that director Cullen Hoback’s film names as the 2009 founder of bitcoin is

By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — In a move that critics are calling a flagrant abuse of power, Florida’s Department of Health is threatening to bring criminal charges against local TV stations airing a campaign ad to overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The unusual warning from the Republican-controlled state agency prompted the Democratic chair of

By Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — The window for a final 2024 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is closing. CNN has publicly offered to host a debate in Atlanta on October 23. Harris has accepted the invitation and welcomed the chance to debate Trump again, but Trump has rejected her