Year: 2025
E.l.f. Beauty to acquire Hailey Bieber skincare brand Rhode in up to $1 billion deal
Hailey Bieber attends the Rhode UK launch party with Hailey Bieber at Chiltern Firehouse on May 17, 2023 in London, England. Dave Benett | Dave Benett Collection | Getty Images E.l.f. Beauty announced on Wednesday plans to acquire Hailey Bieber’s beauty brand Rhode in a deal worth up to $1 billion as the cosmetics company […]
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Chip software stocks sink on report Trump ordered halt to China sales
The Synopsys headquarters in Mountain View, California, on April 13, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of chip design software makers Cadence and Synopsys tumbled in Wednesday trading after The Financial Times reported that the White House told them to stop selling to clients in China. Cadence stock declined nearly 11%, […]
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Healthy Returns: RFK Jr.’s Covid vaccine recommendation change could threaten health, access
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. A wave of outrage is sweeping the scientific and medical world after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to stop recommending routine Covid-19 […]
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Palantir teams up with Fannie Mae in AI push to sniff out mortgage fraud
Key Points An early test showed that Palantir’s technology, which includes elements of artificial intelligence, could identify fraud in seconds that took human investigators two months, Fannie Mae CEO Priscilla Almodovar said. Shares of Palantir have jumped more than 140% since President Donald Trump’s election win in November. The announcement comes as there is a […]
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JD Vance tells bitcoin conference that stablecoins don’t threaten the dollar
Vice President JD Vance speaks at Bitcoin 2025, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Las Vegas. John Locker | AP LAS VEGAS — Vice President JD Vance used his position on stage at the biggest bitcoin conference of the year to push the Trump administration’s efforts on stablecoin legislation, touting its potential benefits to the U.S. […]
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Fed worried it could face ‘difficult tradeoffs’ if tariffs reaggravate inflation, minutes show
watch now VIDEO1:4501:45 Fed: Committee well-positioned to wait for more clarity on inflation and economic outlooks Power Lunch Federal Reserve officials at their meeting earlier this month worried that tariffs could aggravate inflation and create a difficult quandary with interest rate policy, minutes released Wednesday show. The summary of the May 6-7 meeting of the […]
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Trump says he’s not ‘chickening out’ on trade: ‘It’s called negotiation’
President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed back against an emerging critique of his on-again, off-again tariff threats, which has been derisively summed up as the “TACO trade.” The term coined by a Financial Times columnist — which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” — describes a pattern in which Trump announces heavy new tariffs, sending […]
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Justice Department investigates California over trans athletes after Trump threatens funding
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press conference, as she unveils actions against the state of Maine, which is locked in a dispute with the Trump administration over transgender policy, at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters The Justice Department on Wednesday said that it was […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Abercrombie & Fitch, Okta, Vail Resorts, GameStop and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Abercrombie & Fitch — Shares of the retailer climbed 19% after Abercrombie & Fitch’s first-quarter earnings and revenue topped Street estimates, led by results at Hollister. Investors looked past A & F cutting its profit guidance and operating margin forecast due to tariffs, which the company […]
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The U.S. now has a third of the world’s millionaires and billionaires
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The U.S. now accounts for more than a third of the world’s millionaires and billionaires, as tech companies and startups mint […]
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