Year: 2025
World’s largest brewer AB InBev posts fourth-quarter revenue beat even as volumes slide
Budweiser beer in an IGA grocery store in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s largest brewer AB InBev on Wednesday posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter sales despite an annual decline in volumes. The drinks maker, whose brands include Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois, reported an 3.4% increase in fourth-quarter […]
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Singapore alternative meat startups target resurgence after sector setbacks
This photograph on April 21, 2021 shows staff members preparing plant-based food samples during the launch of ADM’s Plant-based Innovation Lab in Singapore. – From faux-chicken satay to imitation beef rendang, a high-tech Singapore laboratory is replicating popular Asian dishes with plant-based meat alternatives to feed the region’s growing appetite for sustainable food. (Photo by […]
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The record-breaking run of ‘Ne Zha 2’ may seem like a surprise. It shouldn’t be
Chinese animation blockbuster Nezha 2 was released in late January alongside several other films for the local Spring Festival holiday period. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — For someone who’s lived in China since before the pandemic, the success of the animated film “Ne Zha 2” marks more of an industry […]
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Boeing No. 2 executive’s role narrowed to focus on fixing commercial plane unit
Boeing’s Stephanie Pope gives a press conference at the Paris Le Bourget Airport, on June 20, 2023. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt | AFP | Getty Images Boeing commercial airplanes head Stephanie Pope will focus on the recovery of the company’s crucial and challenged plane-making unit under a reorganization that ends her role as the company’s chief operating officer but […]
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House Republicans advance Trump’s tax cut plan
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on the potential budget resolution vote and other issues, after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives late on […]
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U.S. lawmakers warn that China could use Musk to influence Trump
Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House’s Oval Office. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives’ select committee on China warned on Tuesday that Beijing may try to exert leverage with Elon Musk in a bid to win favorable U.S. policies, and that Washington must counter any […]
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Wednesday’s big stock stories: What’s likely to move the market in the next trading session
Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching as the S & P 500 posted its fourth consecutive losing day, and what’s on […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump’s policies are worrying investors and consumers
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a hat stating “Trump Was Right About Everything” after signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images The “Trump Bump” — in which stocks and other assets, such as cryptocurrency, jumped after Donald Trump’s […]
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Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed after key Wall Street benchmarks fall on economic concerns
Melbourne’s skyline at dusk Kokkai Ng | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Wednesday, tracking declines in two key Wall Street benchmarks overnight after the U.S. consumer confidence survey came in much weaker than economists’ estimates. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 and Topix were in negative territory for the second consecutive day. The Nikkei 225 started the […]
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Trump floats $5 million ‘gold card’ as a route to U.S. citizenship
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the day he signs an executive order in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 25, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called “gold card” that […]
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