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A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.  Elizabeth Page Brumley | Tribune News Service | Getty Images First class on Frontier? Not quite. But the budget airline on Tuesday launched a new add-on to get more room at the front of its tightly packed

Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi revealed Thurs., Dec. 28, 2023, its long-awaited electric car, but declined to share its price or specific release date. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi announced Tuesday it would formally launch its long-awaited electric car on March 28. The company claimed in a social media post

Jessica Berman, commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League, speaks during a panel on women’s professional soccer at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Feb. 10, 2024. Omar Vega | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images At 16 years old, Jessica Berman was one of those rare teenagers who knew exactly what she wanted to

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin extended recent gains and climbed to another record to start the week. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4% at $72,492.42, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it reached an all-time high of $72,750.16. Last week, bitcoin hit new records in volatile trading for

Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is “looking at everything” regarding the company’s future, CEO Marc Bell told CNBC, as it considers Lockheed Martin’s acquisition offer. “We found out about [Lockheed’s takeover bid] when the rest of the world found out about it,” Bell said on CNBC’s “Manifest Space” podcast. Lockheed’s proposal submitted last week values Terran

The top holdings of many ESG funds may be surprisingly familiar. While these strategies consider a company’s environmental, social and governance factors, these funds still aim to invest in top performers across industry groups, DWS Group’s Arne Noack explained. “The idea isn’t to be super concentrated and only select a handful of stocks that do

Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Pfizer is ready to move on from Covid.  Now, the company is betting on cancer drugs to help it regain its footing after a rocky year marked by the rapid decline of its Covid business. It just might take a while before that bet pays off.  Pfizer pitched its

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2024.  Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion spending bill into law, averting a partial government shutdown that would

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack EV Dodge DETROIT — Dodge won’t abandon its traditional, gearhead, high-octane Charger and Challenger owners with its next-generation muscle car. The automaker on Tuesday revealed the new Dodge Charger as an all-electric vehicle as well as a next-generation gas-powered muscle car. It will be the first all-electric car from

An Alaska airlines Boeing 737 is taking off from Los Angeles International AirPort (LAX) in Los Angeles, California, on March 6, 2024. Daniel Slim | Afp | Getty Images The Justice Department has started a criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines incident where a door panel blew out mid-air two months ago, The Wall Street

Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Novo Nordisk‘s blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy for use in slashing the risk of serious cardiovascular complications in adults with obesity and heart

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday indicated that interest rate cuts may

The Chevrolet All-Electric Blazer EV. Scott Mlyn | CNBC DETROIT — General Motors is reducing the price of its new Chevrolet Blazer EV by thousands of dollars as it restarts sales of the vehicle Friday following an 11-week stoppage to address software issues. Current 2024 Blazer EV models will start at $50,195, or $6,520 less

Scanning QR codes with a mobile pay app has become the most common way to pay in mainland China. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Foreign visitors to China can now spend up to $2,000 a year using the mobile app Alipay without having to register their ID, the app operator said Friday.

Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images Costco on Thursday missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations for its holiday quarter, despite reporting year-over-year sales growth and strong e-commerce gains. Shares of the retailer fell about 4% in aftermarket trading. The retailer’s stock had hit a 52-week high earlier in the day. Here’s what the retailer reported

New York Community Bank said Thursday it lost 7% of its deposits in the turbulent month before announcing a $1 billion-plus capital injection from investors led by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s Liberty Strategic Capital. The bank had $77.2 billion in deposits as of March 5, NYCB said in an investor presentation tied to the

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fist-bumps former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Treasury Department’s and Federal Reserve’s Pandemic Response” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2020. Greg Nash | Reuters The $1 billion-plus injection that New York Community Bank