This lunar robot prototype looks like a centaur meant for the moon
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A Japanese company has built a four-legged, rolling robot that looks vaguely like a centaur — boasting two arms…
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Wall Street’s top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The agency that oversees Wall Street has proposed major changes to the way millions of everyday investors buy and…
Continue ReadingFannie and Freddie unveil plans to tackle the racial homeownership gap
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae announced Wednesday a series of actions that aim to make it easier to buy a…
Continue ReadingMETA alert! Facebook’s old FB stock ticker is no more
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business If you want to find the stock price of Mark Zuckerberg’s company, typing the familiar “FB”…
Continue ReadingWall Street’s blank-check boom has gone bust
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The once hot blank-check merger trend is fading fast. The stock market has been cratering so far this year —…
Continue ReadingPresident Biden talks gun control with Jimmy Kimmel for his first in-person late night appearance
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy…
Continue ReadingRising prices are pushing shoppers to dollar stores
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The Great Recession in 2008 pushed struggling Americans to rely more heavily on dollar stores and prompted other…
Continue ReadingAre social media platforms like railroads? The future of Facebook and Twitter could depend on the answer
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Services like Facebook and Twitter could change radically for millions of Americans in the coming years depending on how…
Continue ReadingOpinion: Black consumers like me want change — not Juneteenth-branded products
Opinion by Lisa Osborne Ross for CNN Business Perspectives During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cup Foods, the…
Continue ReadingTreasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds
By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Biden administration has issued new investment restrictions that prohibit Americans from buying Russian stocks and…
Continue ReadingAn electric car finally makes financial sense
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Gas prices that keep going up by the day have got a lot of people thinking about buying an electric vehicle.…
Continue ReadingEU lawmakers support banning gasoline car sales by 2035 in key vote
By Angela Dewan, CNN Members of the European Parliament voted Wednesday to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035, in what would be one…
Continue ReadingBuy now, pay later users in the UK are racking up debt to pay off their debts
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The growing trend of buying things now but paying for them later is creating a debt trap for many shoppers in the United…
Continue ReadingThe CEO who fired 900 people over Zoom is accused of misleading investors
By David Goldman, CNN Business Vishal Garg, the Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom just before Christmas, has been sued by a former…
Continue ReadingWhy gas prices are near $5 a gallon and how high they’ll go
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Another day, another record for US gas prices. The US average for the price of a gallon of regular gas hit $4.96…
Continue ReadingExxon’s stock is back from the dead
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For years, ExxonMobil struggled to court investors as fears about the climate crisis and criticism of its business…
Continue ReadingJob scams are on the rise. Watch out for these red flags
By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business The strong labor market has given us near record low unemployment, higher wages — and an unfortunate uptick in…
Continue ReadingNike is shutting down its Run Club app in China
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nike is deactivating its Run Club app in China, becoming the latest Western company to reconfigure its business in the…
Continue ReadingWhich Jurassic Park film has roared loudest at the ticket booth?
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Jurassic World: Dominion,” the latest film in the Jurassic Park franchise, stomps into theaters this…
Continue ReadingChina’s BYD will supply EV batteries to ‘good friend’ Elon Musk ‘very soon’
By Laura He, CNN Business BYD, the Warren Buffett-backed Chinese electric carmaker, plans to supply batteries to Tesla “very soon,” a…
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