A sign marks the location of a Honda dealership in Libertyville, Illinois, on Dec. 18, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Shares of Japanese automaker Honda were on track for their best day in 16 years after it announced to buy back up to 1.1 trillion yen ($7 billion) of its shares on Monday amid…
People posing for photos in front of a Christmas light installation in central Seoul on December 22, 2023. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher on Christmas Eve, after key U.S. benchmarks rose overnight helped by gains in tech stocks. Japan’s Nikkei 225 and Topix were nearly flat as minutes of…
Savannah James, wife of NBA star LeBron James, is an entrepreneur, and along with close friend April McDaniels, the co-host of the “Everybody’s Crazy” podcast and co-founder of Let It Break, a personal development group for women. Just like the average person, celebrities sometimes spend their money on things they later regret — James is…
A Walmart truck pulls out of a Walmart Distribution Center in Hurricane, Utah, on May 30, 2024. George Frey | Afp | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a complaint Monday against Walmart and work-scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers to use poorly managed and costly deposit accounts in order…
Ryanjlane | E+ | Getty Images The IRS plans to issue automatic “special payments” of up to $1,400 to 1 million taxpayers starting later this month, the agency announced last week. The payments will go to individuals who did not claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit on their tax returns for that year and who…
Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. job market has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, from one characterized by record levels of employee turnover to one in which there is little churn. In short, the “great resignation” of 2021 and 2022 has morphed into what some labor economists call the “great…
A sign marks the location of a Nordstrom store on March 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Nordstrom on Monday announced it will become a private company after it agreed to a buyout deal valued at roughly $6.25 billion from Nordstrom’s founding family and Mexican department store El Puerto de Liverpool. The…
China is looking to challenge the U.S. in artificial intelligence. China’s tech giants have launched their own AI models. Niphon | Istock | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday said it launched a new probe into legacy Chinese semiconductors that may go into everything from cars to household goods and defense systems. China “routinely…
Couple looks at light-emitting diode illuminations ahead of Christmas in Tokyo, Japan Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets started the holiday-shortened Christmas week on a positive note, after a U.S. government shutdown was averted over the weekend. On Monday, investors will be looking out for any official announcement related to the merger…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2024. Brian Snyder | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his interest in a meeting regarding the war with Ukraine. “President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,”…
