A sign promoting safety is seen on the Regional Transportation Commission 109 Maryland Parkway bus in Las Vegas Thursday, June 8, 2023. Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images On your next visit to Vegas, an extra set of eyes will be watching you if you decide to hop onto the local … Read more
Gross domestic product in the second quarter was expected to show a 2.1% annualized increase. Source link
Weight loss drug concept. Cr | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Viking Therapeutics jumped 16% in premarket trading Thursday after the biotech company a day earlier announced plans to advance its experimental weight loss injection into a late-stage trial earlier than expected. It brings the San Diego-based company one step closer to joining the … Read more
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2024. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway dumped more Bank of America shares this week, making it six straight trading days that Warren Buffett’s conglomerate has reduced its stake in the bank. The Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company sold another 18.9 million shares via … Read more
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images GE HealthCare on Thursday announced it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services to build new generative artificial intelligence models and tools that can efficiently analyze complex medical data. The health-care industry is responsible for generating nearly one-third of all data globally, but much of this information isn’t … Read more
A Southwest commercial airliner takes off from Las Vegas on Feb. 8, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Southwest Airlines is ending open seating and will offer extra legroom seats on its airplanes as mounting pressure on the carrier to increase revenue prompts the biggest changes to its business model in its 53 years of flying. … Read more
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been assembling a large stockpile of Nvidia chips, spending billions of dollars so his company can develop and train advanced … Read more
In this photo illustration, cans of Dr Pepper soda are displayed on June 03, 2024 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Keurig Dr Pepper reported quarterly earnings and revenue that met analysts’ expectations on Thursday as higher prices fueled its U.S. soda sales. Shares of the company rose 2% in premarket trading. Here’s what the … Read more
China’s retail sales grew by 3.7% in the first half of the year from a year ago. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng SHANGHAI — China on Thursday announced its most targeted measures yet for boosting consumption, which has remained lackluster since the Covid-19 pandemic. Authorities announced they would allocate 300 billion Chinese yuan ($41.5 billion) in … Read more
Buy now, pay later firms like Klarna and Block’s Afterpay could be about to face tougher rules in the U.K. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Britain’s new Labour government will soon set out updated plans to regulate the “buy now, pay later” industry, a government spokesperson told CNBC. A Treasury department spokesperson said … Read more
