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CNN By Anna Cooban and Charles Riley, CNN Business Rotterdam is considering a request to dismantle part of a historic bridge to allow a yacht reportedly owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to leave the shipyard where it is being built. The Dutch city has received a request from a local shipbuilder to remove the
Continue ReadingCNN By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report can be hard to interpret, especially as Covid has blown up analysts’ models that measure the economy. But the January report, released Friday, is one to pay attention to. The headline result — 467,000 jobs added last month — came in far better
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Business Lots of workers are getting raises, but for many, the pay hikes won’t buy them more at the grocery store or car dealership. In fact, wages are behind where they were when the pandemic began, if you take rising prices into account. Inflation-adjusted wages, which have been falling steadily since
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Charles Riley, CNN Business Rotterdam is considering a request to dismantle part of a historic bridge to allow a yacht reportedly owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to leave the shipyard where it is being built. The Dutch city has received a request from a local shipbuilder to remove the central
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The historic collapse in Meta’s shares this week has wiped $31 billion off Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth, taking him down three places on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest people. He now stands in 10th place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, behind Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and just a few
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. There are signs of TV news turmoil in every direction right now. Whoopi Goldberg is sitting on the bench at ABC. Rachel Maddow is starting a hiatus from her top-rated
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN After a delay of more than a week due to the plaintiff’s having tested positive for Covid, attorneys finally gave opening statements in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Thursday. The lawsuit centers around an editorial that the Times published in June 2017, shortly
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business On January 25 Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust arrived together at CNN’s New York office for a very important meeting. On the agenda: An hours-long presentation of the new CNN+ streaming service for Zucker’s boss, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar. The discussions and hands-on demonstrations were a success. Kilar flew back
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie and Jill Disis, CNN Business Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest is taking legal action against Facebook in Australia after he claims the company failed to remove scam advertisements that used his image. Facebook was “criminally reckless” because it did not take “sufficient steps to stop criminals from using its social media platform
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Amazon is raising the price of its annual Prime subscriptions from $119 to $139 per year in the United States, the company announced along with its earnings report Thursday. The price of a monthly subscription will also increase from $12.99 to $14.99. The company said it is increasing the price
Continue Readingby Chris Isidore, CNN Business Ford reported an unexpected drop in its fourth quarter earnings, rather than the improved results expected by Wall Street, but the company promised it sees a better 2022 ahead. The company reported income excluding special items of $1.1 billion, down from $1.4 billion on that same basis a year ago.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn MacKenzie Scott has donated $133.5 million to educational nonprofit Communities in School, an organization that helps students navigate issues inside and outside of the classroom. The billionaire philanthropist’s donation is the largest unsolicited gift in the program’s history. Communities in School works in 2,900 schools in America, supporting students at risk of
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Amazon is raising the price of its annual Prime subscriptions from $119 to $139 per year in the United States, the company announced along with its earnings report Thursday. The price of a monthly subscription will also increase from $12.99 to $14.99. The company said it is increasing the
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Kaylen Barker, a Black woman who worked at a Tesla manufacturing plant, filed a lawsuit this week in California claiming that the automaker tolerates “rampant acts of racism” in its factories. Barker’s lawsuit describes a series of escalating racist encounters in 2021 that the automaker allegedly ignored until a coworker
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business US oil prices jumped above $90 a barrel on Thursday for the first time in more than seven years. The latest rally comes just a day after OPEC and its allies declined to aggressively ramp up production to cool off red-hot energy prices. Crude jumped 2.2% to $90.15 a barrel
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Sky high real estate prices have made a growing number of homeowners “equity rich,” according to a report on home equity. That means they have at least 50% equity in their property, or put another way, that the amount they owe on the home is no more than half of
Continue ReadingOpinion by Carlo Pizzinelli and Ippei Shibata for CNN Business Perspectives Almost two years after the pandemic upended labor markets, job openings are plentiful in many advanced economies, yet workers have not fully returned. The broader trend of plentiful jobs and not enough workers can have major implications for growth, inequality and inflation. This gap,
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Wag, a dog-walking startup that once received $300 million from a single investor only to stumble in executing its strategy, is set to go public in a deal valued not much higher than that one investment. Wag said Thursday that it has entered an agreement to go public through
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a new feature aimed at cutting down on harassment and assault in virtual reality: It will give avatars in its Horizon Worlds social app and Horizon Venues events app an invisible “personal boundary” of four feet to stop others from getting too
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, just had its worst trading day in its history as a public company. The company’s shares closed down more than 26% Thursday, shaving off nearly $240 billion from its market value, after a rough earnings report released after trading hours on Wednesday.
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