Economy

Bowlero, the buzzy bowling company that was one of the few successful stocks to emerge from the SPAC boom, is the subject of a sprawling federal investigation into age discrimination and retaliation that authorities now want to settle for $60 million, CNBC has learned.Negotiations over the settlement, proposed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission… […]

(L-R) Richard A. Gonzalez, chairman and CEO of AbbVie Inc., Pascal Soriot, executive director and CEO of AstraZeneca, Giovanni Caforio, chairman of the board and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Jennifer Taubert, executive vice president and worldwide chairman of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.,… […]

GameStop the video game retailer currently riding another wave of trading enthusiasm spurred on by the meme trader “Roaring Kitty,” showed no signs of an operational turnaround in its dismal fiscal first-quarter results. The company on Friday posted net sales of $881.8 million for the period, down 29% from $1.237 billion a year prior. The […]

Customers exit a Costco store in Teterboro, New Jersey, June 28, 2023. Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty Images DETROIT — General Motors has a not-so-secret weapon when it comes to getting U.S. consumers into its new all-electric vehicles: Costco Wholesale . The Detroit automaker said it’s increasingly using the retail giant’s Costco Auto […]

Apple is behind on artificial intelligence. Now, the company is getting ready to unleash its first wave of user-facing AI products. And behind that push is John Giannandrea, a Silicon Valley veteran who is Apple’s top executive in charge of AI strategy. On Monday, Apple will hold its annual developers conference, called WWDC, where it’s […]

The Netherlands far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders speaks to the media representatives following the European Parliament elections provisional results in The Hague on June 6, 2024. Emiel Muijderman | Episode | Getty Images Sweeping gains for Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party on Thursday are expected to foretell a wider shift to the […]

Sandbags placed near the waterfront in a residential area during a No. 8 storm signal raised for Super Typhoon Saola in Hong Kong, China, on Sept. 1, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hong Kong will no longer shut down its stock market during severe weather conditions, according to a Bloomberg report citing people […]