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D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Credit card delinquencies surged more than 50% in 2023 as total consumer debt swelled to $17.5 trillion, the New York Federal Reserve reported Tuesday. Debt that has transitioned into “serious delinquency,” or 90 days or more past due, increased across multiple categories during the year, but none more so

Allen Howard Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization CFO, appears for sentencing for tax fraud scheme in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 10, 2023. Curtis Means | Pool | Reuters The New York judge set to deliver a verdict in the civil business fraud trial of Donald

Nikki Haley, the candidate of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential elections in the US, delivers remarks during a Town Hall campaign event in the Lowcountry in Bluffton SC, United States on November 27, 2023. Peter Zay | Anadolu | Getty Images Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley has requested a U.S. Secret Service

Trucks and trailers sit in a Yellow Corp. facility lot, closed after the freight trucking company ceased all operations, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 31, 2023.  Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images The bankrupt trucking company Yellow has fully repaid a controversial $700 million Covid loan to the U.S. Treasury Department, plus

This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images It was a big week for tech earnings, with Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all reporting over the past few days. Artificial intelligence

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Feb. 7, 2023. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan answers questions during the daily briefing at the White House on November 13, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Win Mcnamee | Getty Images National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said that the United States will conduct further military action against Iran-backed groups, heightening tensions in the Middle East despite Sullivan

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her primary night rally at the Grappone Conference Center on January 23, 2024 in Concord, New Hampshire.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Nikki Haley made a surprise — and funny — appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” where she asked a cast member playing her

Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, speaks at the WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Paramount Global nonexecutive chair and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has been talking to potential buyers interested in acquiring her media company — or parts of it for years — but

A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes. “We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy of the equation. So they can charge whatever the software tells them to charge,” said Kevin Weller, a tenant at Portside Towers since

Amazon trailers are parked at an Amazon Air gateway at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, on Sept. 26, 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Amazon is warning investors that the climate crisis may have a material effect on its business. In the risk factors section of its 2023 financial filing released Friday, Amazon added

Visitors take photos in front of the Meta sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, December 29, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Technology companies are learning an old lesson from Wall Street: maturing means shrinking. Meta and Amazon saw their shares spike on Friday following their fourth-quarter earnings reports. While

The collapse of FTX has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. The price of bitcoin and other major digital coins have fallen sharply as problems at FTX emerged. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Three people were indicted for an identity-theft conspiracy that allegedly included the $400 million hack from FTX on the same

Amazon said on Thursday that its cloud division grew revenue 13% year over year in the fourth quarter, exactly in line with analysts’ projections. The company pointed to growing traction in cloud services for artificial intelligence. Many large technology companies have worked quickly to release new products or update existing ones to capitalize on corporate

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Omar Marques | Getty Images Tesla will pay a fee of $1.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the company mishandled hazardous waste materials at facilities throughout the state of California for years. The fee is negligible for Tesla, which reported net income of $7.93 billion during the fourth-quarter of 2023. Tesla

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg is so pleased with his “year of efficiency” that he’s extending it indefinitely. On Thursday’s earnings call, after Meta reported fourth-quarter financials that