CNN – Business/Consumer

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Inflation continues to loosen its grip on American consumers, with price hikes slowing by the most in three and a half years, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index, a measurement of price changes for a commonly purchased basket of

By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, quickly correcting the record for millions watching at home after the Republican pushed falsehoods on abortion, migrants and the 2020 election. The decision to live fact-check the candidates during the high-stakes telecast

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — No more soup for the Campbell’s company. The 155-year-old Campbell Soup Company plans to drop “soup” from its corporate name, rebranding as The Campbell’s Company. More consumers are reaching for snacks and ditching ready-to-serve soups, and the company has bought up other food lines to grab them. In addition to its lineup of soups, Campbell

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks has been on the decline, with shrinking sales as it moved from a traditional sit-down coffee shop into one where people place orders on their phones and grab a drink from the counter. Its new CEO has a plan to fix it all. And it starts

By Jason Seher, CNN (CNN) — It’s hard to get 42 states to agree on much. But a bipartisan group of attorneys general on Tuesday demanded that Congress require Surgeon General warning labels on social media apps to help curtail addiction and a mental health crisis among young adults. “As state Attorneys General, we sometimes

By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump take the stage Tuesday night in Philadelphia in their first face-to-face meeting, the spotlight will also shine on the host of the debate: ABC News. Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis will have a much different view in front of them than when ABC News first

By Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — In poll after poll, Americans have indicated the economy is their top concern as they prepare to cast votes this election. Dealing with high inflation for years will do that to you. Although inflation has cooled significantly since it peaked at a 40-year high

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — During its glossy product announcement event on Tuesday, Apple unveiled a new role for its latest AirPods Pro model: medical device. The company said the wireless headphones will double as clinical-grade over-the-counter hearing aids for those who need them. “We’re adding this groundbreaking capability to help more than 1

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon is taking a page out of Aldi and Target’s playbook and launching a new line of budget-friendly food items in an attempt to attract price-conscious shoppers who are ditching name brands to save money. Amazon is rolling out a new “no-frills” private label brand called Amazon

By Juliana Liu and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Huawei has unveiled what it calls the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, just hours after arch-rival Apple introduced the iPhone 16, in a carefully timed Tuesday launch that has generated significant buzz for the Chinese tech giant. The Shenzhen-based firm, which has been a flashpoint

By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Investors got some much-needed R&R over the weekend, apparently, because they came back to work Monday with smiles on their faces and a brighter outlook about the US economy. The Dow rose 484 points, or 1.2%, on Monday. The broader S&P 500 rose 1.2% and tech-heavy Nasdaq was also

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — DirecTV wants its customers to stick with the service during an increasingly nasty dispute with Disney that threatens to black out tonight’s “Monday Night Football” game. So DirecTV developed an unusual strategy: It’s paying customers to subscribe to a rival. DirecTV has struck deals with Sling, owned

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Local governments across England, Scotland and Wales face a £4.3 billion ($5.6 billion) hole in their finances in the coming year, according to a new report. That could force cuts to jobs and vital services, such as rubbish collection. In a paper Monday, Unison, the United Kingdom’s largest

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Big Lots, the beleaguered discount retailer that previously warned it had “substantial doubt” about its survival, has filed for bankruptcy. As part of its Chapter 11 filing, the retailer announced that private equity firm Nexus Capital Management is acquiring “substantially all” of Big Lots stores and business

By Clare Duffy, Samantha Murphy Kelly and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Apple on Monday unveiled a host of new technology, including the iPhone 16, which features some impressive updates the company hopes will convince customers – many of whom have been holding onto their older gadgets – to upgrade. Since the 2020 launch of

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans may be finding it a little tougher to land a job these days, but not so much in one field in which salaries are climbing fast and employers are offering robust perks. Once a source of US economic resilience, the nation’s job market is now weaker than

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” a follow-up to Tim Burton’s 1988 classic, has landed with a bang, raking in an estimated $110 million in US ticket sales over its opening weekend, based on Comscore data. The “stellar domestic opening” is the second-highest ever for a movie in September, topped only by “It,”

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s social media company is in a deep slump that keeps getting worse, wiping out a huge chunk of his net worth. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) dropped last week to their lowest level since the merger that brought the owner