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The bar at the Delta One lounge at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Delta Air Lines’ most exclusive airport lounge opens this week to travelers flying on the right ticket. The Delta One lounge at the carrier’s hub at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport will open Wednesday

Shapecharge | E+ | Getty Images Fewer Americans are buying life insurance than in the past, which suggests households may be at financial risk in the event of an unexpected death, experts said. About half, 52%, of consumers had a life insurance policy in January 2023, down from 63% in 2011, according to a poll

Novo Nordisk’s new manufacturing facility in Clayton, North Carolina. Courtesy: Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk on Monday said it will spend $4.1 billion to build a new manufacturing plant in Clayton, North Carolina, in a bid to boost the supply of its blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy, diabetes treatment Ozempic and other injectable therapies.  Demand for

Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024. David A. Grogan Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway has scooped up more shares of Occidental Petroleum over each of the past nine trading sessions, driving his gigantic stake in the Houston-based oil and gas producer to

Target is turning to Shopify to add new and trendier brands to its website. Starting Monday, the Minneapolis-based discounter said companies that work with Shopify can apply to join Target Plus, its third-party marketplace. Some of Shopify’s customers are smaller or up-and-coming brands that use the e-commerce platform to build and operate a website. Target

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is accusing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of doing the financial industry’s bidding by considering changes to a sweeping set of regulations aimed at boosting the capital cushion that large American banks would be required to hold. In a June 17 letter first obtained by CNBC, Warren asked Powell for a

Gilead‘s experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday. None of the roughly 2,000 women in the trial who received the lenacapavir shot had contracted HIV by an interim analysis, prompting the independent data monitoring committee to recommend Gilead unblind the Phase 3 trial and offer

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. Lev Radin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images New York is launching a program offering homeowners up to $14,000 in total rebates for energy-efficiency upgrades to their property, and more states are expected to follow suit by summer’s end. The rebate programs are part of the federal Inflation Reduction Act, the largest

Customers arrive at an Olive Garden location in San Antonio, Texas. Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images Casual-dining chains are gaining customers who have grown frustrated with higher fast-food prices, Darden Restaurants CEO Rick Cardenas said on Thursday. While Darden itself hasn’t benefited from the shift, its competitors, like Chili’s owner Brinker International and

A man walks a dog in the shade away from the midday sun past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) building in Manhattan, during hot weather in New York City, New York, U.S., August 11, 2020. Mike Segar | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese authorities this week announced new policy for supporting venture capital, raising hopes

Forever 21 is asking landlords for a break on rent as the legacy fast-fashion player’s sales decline and it struggles to keep up with savvier competitors, CNBC has learned. The retailer, which has more than 380 stores in the U.S., has asked some landlords to cut its rent by as much as 50%, people familiar

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Jan. 11, 2024. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images Wall Street’s climb to record highs has come with conspicuously little volatility. The S&P 500 has gone 377 days without a 2.05% sell-off. That’s the longest stretch for the benchmark

Sales of previously owned homes are sitting at a 30-year low and didn’t move much in May as prices hit a new record and mortgage rates remain high. So-called existing home sales in May were essentially flat, down 0.7% from April to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.11 million units, according to the National

Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of the Nations Largest Banks, in Hart Building on Thursday, September 22, 2022.  Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Banking regulators on Friday disclosed that they found weaknesses in the resolution plans of

Eli Lilly on Friday said it applied for U.S. approval of its weight loss drug Zepbound for the treatment of the most common sleep-related breathing disorder and expects regulators to make a decision as early as the end of the year. If cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, the company plans to launch Zepbound for so-called obstructive

Tsingha25 | Istock | Getty Images Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved. A network of eight banks held $109 million in deposits for Yotta customers as of April 11,

The Shein logo can be seen on a smartphone, while the Chinese online retailer’s website is open on a laptop.  Monika Skolimowska | Picture Alliance | Getty Images China-founded e-commerce company Shein’s hopes of going public in the United States are growing slimmer by the day, according to experts, as rising tensions between Beijing and

Workers assemble a Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, an all-electric microcar manufactured by SAIC-GM-Wuling, at a plant of the joint automaker in Qingdao in east Chinas Shandong province Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China spent $230.8 billion over more than a decade to develop its electric car

Starlink Mini promotional image. SpaceX customer email sent June 19, 2024. SpaceX is rolling out a compact version of its Starlink antennas, which the company is advertising as a mobile option for its satellite internet customers. “Starlink Mini is a compact, portable kit that can easily fit in a backpack, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency

Investors may want to consider hedging their emerging market plays, according to one exchange-traded fund expert. Ben Slavin, global head of ETFs and managing director at BNY, said that while there have been notable inflows into Indian, European and Japanese ETFs, investors should account for the strength of the U.S. dollar. “You have to look