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Employees package and sort express parcels at an e-commerce company on Nov. 1, 2024, around the Double 11 Shopping Festival in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Early indicators of China’s biggest shopping event of the year reveal a pickup in select categories amid expectations of

People seen around the Starbucks coffee store in Shenzhen, China. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images On Starbucks’ fourth-quarter earnings call, newly installed CEO Brian Niccol told investors he needed to spend more time in China to understand the challenges. The company’s same-store sales in the country plummeted 14% as foot traffic and the

PayPal Inc. co-founder and Affirm’s CEO Max Levchin on center stage during day one of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Vaughn Ridley | Sportsfile | Getty Images LONDON — Buy now, pay later firm Affirm launched Monday its installment loans in the U.K., in the company’s first expansion overseas. Founded in 2012, Affirm

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on April 26, 2023. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Greek media company the Antenna Group is in talks to acquire fellow media company Time from Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, according to people familiar with the matter. No deal is

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024. CNBC Warren Buffett sold another big chuck of his Apple stake, downsizing Berkshire Hathaway‘s biggest equity holding for four quarters in a row. The Omaha-based conglomerate held $69.9 billion worth of Apple shares at the end of September,

A staple of Disney’s theme park’s celebrations, the giant Mickey pumpkin statue towers over guests on Main Street. Disney It’s time for Disney parks to swap pumpkins for poinsettias. In the thick of its busiest season, Disney’s domestic theme parks have already begun to transition from Halloween decorations to Christmas colors. The transformation starts to

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024. David A. Grogen | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway‘s monstrous cash pile topped $300 billion in the third quarter as Warren Buffett continued his stock-selling spree and held back from repurchasing shares. The Omaha-based conglomerate saw its

A depiction of Nexus satellites in a medium Earth orbit constellation. Astranis The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the economy. Since then, GPS is estimated to have generated more

BlackRock’s iShares is trying to appeal to investors who want to diversify beyond from the so-called Magnificent Seven. The firm launched the iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF (TOPT) this month. It doesn’t just hold the Magnificent Seven — Apple, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. It’s made up of the 20 largest U.S.

Ferragudo, Portugal. Gonzalo Azumendi | Stone | Getty Images 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. A growing number of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the country in

Britain’s Science and Innovation Secretary Peter Kyle addresses delegates at the 2023 Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — British tech bosses and venture capitalists are questioning whether the country can deliver on its bid to become a global artificial intelligence hub after the government set out plans to

Mike Cavanagh, president of Comcast Corporation, at center, during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 12, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Comcast is thinking about separating or spinning off NBCUniversal’s cable networks. If it moves forward with the idea, it could lay the groundwork for a reconfiguration of

Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Block, the payments company owned by tech billionaire Jack Dorsey has launched its corporate card service in the U.K. in a bid to deepen its expansion into the country and take on big incumbents like American Express. The firm’s business-focused payments arm, Square, told CNBC that it

Starbucks offers oat milk as a dairy-free option. Source: Starbucks Starbucks said Wednesday that it will remove the surcharge for dairy substitutes, saving some U.S. customers more than 10% on their drinks. The change goes into effect Nov. 7 and follows years of pleading from customers to eliminate the extra fee, especially as milk alternatives

On Monday, British tech lobby group Startup Coalition warned in a blog post that there was a risk Reeves’ tax plans could result in a tech “brain drain.”. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Oli Scarff | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s Labour government on Wednesday announced plans to raise the rate of capital gains tax

An Airbus A321XLR Neo passenger aircraft performs a flying display at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Paris, France, on Monday, June 19, 2023.  Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airbus said Wednesday that it has handed over its first extra-long-range narrow-body aircraft, the A321XLR, marking another step in an era of smaller

Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi on Tuesday announced a sports car version of its SU7 electric sedan would begin preorders for the equivalent of more than $110,000. Luna Lin | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s Xiaomi said Tuesday that it had delivered more than 20,000 SU7 EVs in October as it ramps up production

McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski speaks about fresh beef expansion at a McDonald’s event in Oak Brook, Illinois. Richa Naidu | Reuters A week after health authorities publicly linked a deadly E. coli outbreak to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers, the company’s CEO, Chris Kempczinski, told investors that the situation is now behind them. “How we’ve handled the