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Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on June 14, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday announced the final version of a rule limiting banks’ ability to charge overdraft fees. It says the rule will save American

Costco on Thursday beat Wall Street’s quarterly earnings and sales estimates, as e-commerce sales jumped and shoppers bought jewelry, luggage and furniture. On the membership-based warehouse club’s earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip said customers have remained selective with purchases. But, he added, they have shown they’re willing to spend, especially as inflation comes

After ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump stopped short of telling investors to buy more stock as he gets set to take office. “I don’t want to get into a situation where they do and we have a dip or something because that can always happen,”

Hollywood icon Whoopi Goldberg hopes her newly launched All Women’s Sports Network will bring more attention to women’s sports. Goldberg started the network with George Chung, co-founder of international media holding company Jungo TV. It’s the first global media channel dedicated exclusively to highlighting women’s sports and is available in the U.S. on the free

Hispanolistic | E+ | Getty Images Consumers saw inflation pick up slightly in November as price increases in categories including groceries, gasoline and new cars outweighed a deceleration in others such as shelter during the month. The consumer price index, a key inflation gauge, rose 2.7% last month relative to November 2023, the Bureau of

Nike football shoes are seen in a store in Krakow, Poland, on Aug. 29, 2024. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nike has renewed its partnership with the National Football League for another 10 years after the league briefly opened the bidding process to competitors and held talks with other companies.  Under the terms

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng has met with several U.S. finance executives in the last month as Beijing seeks to build relationships ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on China. He Lifeng is one of China’s four vice premiers, and heads the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s economic and finance committee. He met with BlackRock

The “Arena” office building at the headquarters of the sporting goods manufacturer adidas AG is reflected in an artificial lake. Daniel Karmann | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Adidas’ German headquarters was raided on Tuesday in connection with a yearslong tax investigation, the company confirmed to CNBC in a statement.  Authorities are investigating customs and

Rudi_suardi | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. job market has been stagnant of late, a dynamic that contains both good and bad news for U.S. workers. On the one hand, businesses are holding on to their existing workforce, meaning employees are unlikely to lose their jobs, economists said. But it also may be hard

Alaska Airlines planes. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Alaska Air Group expects to grow profits by $1 billion through 2027, and plans to ride the wave of high-end travel demand to get there. Alaska closed its $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines in September, less than a year after inking the deal that gives

Sasan Goodarzi, president and CEO of Intuit Inc. and Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon has for years counted on millions of third-party sellers to provide the bulk of the inventory that consumers buy. But keeping track of their finances has long been a challenge for outside

A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk.  Reuters Prescription fills for blockbuster weight loss drugs in the U.S. more than doubled in 2024, even with limited insurance coverage and high out-of-pocket costs for the treatments, according to data released Thursday

Banks that issue credit cards used by millions of consumers raised interest rates and introduced new fees over the past year in response to an impending regulation that most experts now believe will never take effect. Synchrony and Bread Financial, which specialize in issuing branded cards for companies including Verizon and JCPenney, have said that

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA – NOVEMBER 9: Flau’jae Johnson #4 of the LSU Tigers in action during a game against the Northwestern State Demons at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on November 9, 2024 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Kristen Young/LSU/Getty Images) Reagan Cotton/lsu | University Images | Getty Images Flau’jae Johnson has a lot

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, right, speaks during the New York Times DealBook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.  Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday he isn’t worried President-elect Donald Trump will

Say hello to life at the mall.  The classic American mall is undergoing a dramatic transformation as real estate developers swap out dying department stores for apartments, ushering in an era where living at the mall could soon become a new norm. Some U.S. developers are knocking down department stores like Macy’s or JCPenney and

BlackRock expects infrastructure and cybersecurity plays to shine in 2025. Jay Jacobs, the firm’s U.S. head of thematic and active ETFs, cites the artificial intelligence boom as a major catalyst. “It’s still very early in the AI adoption cycle,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. According to Jacobs, AI companies need to build out