Month: January 2025
Ivanka Trump warns investors that meme token bearing her name is fake
Hakan Nural | Getty Images Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, is warning investors against buying a fraudulent crypto coin bearing her name. “It has come to my attention that a fake crypto coin called ‘Ivanka Trump’ or ‘$IVANKA’ is being promoted without my consent or approval,” she wrote in a post on […]
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EA shares plunge 19%, on track for worst day since dot-com bubble
A sign is posted in front of the Electronic Arts headquarters in Redwood City, California, on March 30, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of Electronic Arts headed for their steepest drop since 1999 after the video game publisher cut its full-year bookings guidance, due mostly to challenges with its soccer franchise. The stock […]
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Store closures hit highest level since pandemic — see who is shutting down the most locations
Shoppers seek closeout sale discounts at Party City in Stamford, Conn. July 3, 2023. Tyler Sizemore | Albany Times Union | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images Store closures in the U.S. last year hit the highest level since the pandemic — and even more locations are expected to shutter this year, as shoppers’ dollars increasingly […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Alcoa, GE Aerospace, Electronic Arts, American Airlines and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Alcoa — Alcoa’s shares fell about 4% after CEO William Oplinger said on Wednesday that U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports would increase the cost of aluminum by $1.5 billion to $2 billion a year, and that increasing the cost of trade with Canada and Mexico would hurt […]
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Trumps says Ukraine peace efforts ‘hopefully underway’ as he calls for Putin meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration’s efforts to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal were “hopefully underway,” and that he wanted to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon. In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: “I really would like to be able […]
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Trump slams trade relationship with European Union: ‘We have some very big complaints’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to take aim at the European Union for what he claims is an unequal trade relationship. “From the standpoint of America, the EU treats us very, very unfairly, very badly,” Trump said in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. After his inauguration on […]
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Adidas to cut up to 500 jobs after posting better-than-expected holiday profits
Adidas shoes are displayed at a DSW store in Novato, California, on Jan. 31, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Adidas plans to cut as many as 500 jobs in a bid to simplify its business, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. The layoffs will affect employees at Adidas’ headquarters […]
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Watch live: Trump addresses Davos, global markets respond
(The stream is slated to start at 11 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a video above at that time.) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, virtually on Thursday, his first major appearance at an international event since he returned to the White House […]
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Shein exec says tariffs shouldn’t impact its cheap clothes — as long as they’re applied ‘equally’
A view of a Shein pop-up store at a mall in Singapore April 4, 2024. Edgar Su | Reuters Shein’s ultra-cheap clothes can remain affordable as long as proposed tariffs from President Donald Trump are “applied equally,” the company’s executive chairman Donald Tang said on Thursday. “Affordability is a big anchor. … It’s the whole […]
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Trump says he’ll ask Saudi Arabia to ’round out’ investment pledge in U.S. to $1 trillion
US President Donald Trump (L) speaks with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2nd R) and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May smile during a family photo session at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (Photo by KIM KYUNG-HOON […]
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