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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business With electric cars, people often talk about “range anxiety,” and how cars with bigger batteries and longer driving ranges will alleviate that. I just drove an electric car from New York City to Atlanta, a distance of about 950 miles, and it taught me something important. The problem really isn’t
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over his move to terminate their $44 billion acquisition agreement will go to trial on Oct. 17 and run for five days, a Delaware judge has ruled. Judge Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, who is overseeing the case, issued the order for the trial dates late
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It’s been one year since Robinhood went public. And to say that the online broker’s performance has been disastrous would be a massive understatement. If someone were to write a kids’ book about it, they could title it “Robinhood and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year.”
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The American economy is losing steam and is vulnerable to sinking into a recession but it’s not in one yet, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. “This is a slowdown. We’re not in recession, certainly not during the first half of this year,” Zandi told CNN in a
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Much of contemporary Silicon Valley was built on advertising dollars. That dependence made even the most powerful companies look at least somewhat vulnerable this week after reporting their latest earnings results. “We seem to have entered an economic downturn that will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business,”
Continue ReadingOpinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives Almost 50 years ago, fresh out of school, I was transfixed by the coverage of the famous hearings into the Watergate break-in. They were certainly as compelling as anything I saw on television in that era. And I wasn’t the only one: An estimated 80 million watched
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Will there be a recession? And, if so, just how bad will it be for my finances? Those questions are looming large for Americans after the Federal Reserve yet again raised rates to combat high inflation, and the latest gross domestic product report showed that the economy slowed for the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Employers continued hiking workers’ pay at a brisker-than-expected pace, but the increases still weren’t enough to compensate for the even faster rise in inflation. Wages and salaries for civilian workers increased 1.4% in the second quarter and 5.3% over the year ending in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported record massive profits thanks to record gasoline prices during the quarter. Exxon’s profit, excluding special items, came to $17.6 billion in the second quarter, nearly double what it made in its very profitable first quarter as oil and gas prices started to soar in the
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Another key measure of inflation set a fresh 40-year high in June, a month marked by record-high gas prices. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, which measures the change in the prices of goods and services purchased by consumers, rose by 6.8% in June as compared to the same period
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When you think about a shrinking economy, what comes to mind? Factories shutting down. A wave of job losses and few open positions. Huge financial losses that batter most industries. That’s not what America is seeing right now, even though the country’s gross domestic product has declined for two consecutive
Continue ReadingOpinion by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji for CNN Business Perspectives A couple of months ago, when the consensus outlook for the economy was fairly sanguine, we warned that the economy was “close to entering a recession,” but that there was still time to make hay in the jobs market. But now that a recession
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt and Lauren Kent in London The German city of Hanover has banned hot water in public buildings and has introduced measures to reduce heating and energy usage as Europe faces a potential natural gas crisis this winter. “Every kilowatt-hour saved saves the gas storage tanks,” said the mayor’s office in a news
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Europe’s economy grew unexpectedly in the second quarter of this year, allaying concerns — for now — that the continent may have slid into a recession. The European Union’s economy grew at a seasonally adjusted 4% last quarter when compared to the same quarter a year ago
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind and Tal Yellin, CNN If you’re confused about whether the US economy is in a recession, you’re not alone. On one hand, gross domestic product, a key measure of economic output, shrank for the second straight quarter this week, raising fears that the country has entered — or will soon enter —
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China’s top leadership has gone quiet on the growth targets it had set for the year, as the world’s second-largest economy continues to battle a largely self-inflicted economic slowdown. In early March, China’s government had said that the country would target gross domestic product growth of about 5.5% this year.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Even the world’s most valuable tech company isn’t immune to the more challenging global economic climate. Apple on Thursday reported its profits declined by nearly 11% in the three months ending in June from the same period a year ago as the company works through an economic downturn and supply
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon appears to still be going strong even as other Big Tech companies stumble amid pressure from inflation and an economic downturn. The e-commerce giant on Thursday reported net sales of $121.2 billion for the quarter ended June 30, a 7% increase from the same quarter last year and higher
Continue ReadingCNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash from users, including members of the Kardashian family. In recent days, Instagram has come under fire from users who are frustrated that the photo-sharing app is becoming too much like rival
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash from users, including members of the Kardashian family. In recent days, Instagram has come under fire from users who are frustrated that the photo-sharing app is becoming too much like rival TikTok.
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