Economy

The welcome sign at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 2, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC OMAHA, Nebraska — Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are getting more bang for their buck at this year’s meeting with the annual shopping event more interactive than ever. The conglomerate’s yearly convention kicked off Friday […]

When Warren Buffett shares details of his personal finances, people tend to pull up a chair and take notes. When you’re one of the wealthiest people on Earth, you must be doing something right. While Buffett’s acolytes are chiefly interested in strategies for amassing more money, they recently received a lesson in how to give […]

Moor Studio | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images Companies are talking up a storm about artificial intelligence and generative AI implementations, and many are moving ahead with deployments. But there might be a danger of employee burnout from moving too fast into AI, and businesses need to guard against this even as they enthusiastically jump […]

Employees make inflatable toys for export on the production line at a factory on March 19, 2025 in Huaibei, Anhui Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images President Trump said this week that there may be less dolls for children for this year’s holiday season amid his tariff war, but the […]

A member of staff next to a trading board at the London Stock Exchange on April 25, 2025. Carl Court | Getty Images While global markets have been gripped by turbulence in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s seesawing tariffs policies, British stocks have enjoyed a bumper rally. London’s FTSE 100 index, which has […]

Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners. Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported […]

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during an Economic Club of Chicago event in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Jamie Kelter Davis | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday issued his latest call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, following a better-than-expected jobs report […]

Block shares were on track for their second-worst day Friday, plunging more than 20% as investors digested a brutal quarterly report and a wave of analyst downgrades centered on one issue: Cash App. The first-quarter earnings miss rattled Wall Street, prompting multiple firms — including Wells Fargo, Seaport, BMO and Benchmark — to downgrade the […]

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2022. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday released prices for the first 10 prescription drugs that were subject to landmark negotiations between drugmakers and Medicarea […]

Walmart raised its forecast for the year on Thursday, as quarterly revenue grew nearly 5%, the company’s stores and website drew more visits, and sales outside the grocery department improved. The discounter beat Wall Street’s expectations for sales and profits, and its shares climbed 6% in morning trading. Walmart said it now expects sales to […]