Denim is having a moment with consumers, but it hasn't led to a major sales boost at Levi Strauss. The jeans creator on Wednesday posted fiscal second quarter revenue that fell just short of Wall Street's expectations at a time when shoppers are stocking their wardrobes with denim dresses, skirts...
US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14 2023. Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Biden administration on Wednesday said it will impose inflation penalties on 64 prescription drugs for the third quarter of...
Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMorgan Stanley is pushing further into its adoption of artificial intelligence with a new assistant that is expected to take over thousands of hours of labor for the bank's financial advisors.The assistant, called Debrief, keeps detailed logs of advisors' meetings and automatically creates...
A Southwest Airlines jet is parked Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Kehole awaiting passengers on January 20, 2024 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines shares fell roughly 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the carrier cut its second-quarter revenue forecast, citing changing booking patterns.Southwest expects...
It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.YouTube, which effectively invented user-generated content, claims a daunting share of overall media consumption. And it's no longer just dominating the internet, it's dominating the living room, too.YouTube...
A pedestrian walks by a parked FedEx delivery truck on March 21, 2024 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesFedEx shares soared more than 15% after hours Tuesday after the company reported results that topped analysts' estimates in both earnings and revenue.Here's how the company did in its...
Workers assemble second-generation R1 vehicles at electric automaker Rivian's manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, on June 21, 2024.Joel Angel Juarez | ReutersVolkswagen plans to invest up to $5 billion in electric vehicle startup Rivian, starting with an initial investment of $1 billion.The additional $4 billion is expected by 2026....
DETROIT – General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Tuesday announced former Amazon and Microsoft executive Marc Whitten as its new CEO.Whitten was a founding engineer at Microsoft's Xbox before leaving the company after more than 17 years to become chief product officer of audio company Sonos in 2014,...
Cars sit on a Chevrolet dealership's lot on June 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. A cyber attack on CDK Global, a software provider that helps dealerships manage sales and service, has crippled the workflow at approximately 15,000 dealerships across the United States and Canada. Scott Olson | Getty ImagesDETROIT –...
Home prices set another record high in April, even as mortgage rates rose and the supply of homes for sale increased. Usually, under those circumstances, prices would weaken, but today's housing market is unlike any other in recent history.Prices in April rose 6.3% compared with April 2023, according to...