[ad_1] Washington, DC CNN — It is almost as if the wild turns in the Manhattan real estate market during the pandemic didn’t happen. Almost. The frenzy to buy apartments in Manhattan took off in 2021 as the city bounced back from the worst of the pandemic. But it nosedived …
Read More »FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives in court to face charges
[ad_1] New York CNN — Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has arrived at a Manhattan federal court where he is set to appear to face charges that include cheating investors out of billions of dollars. Authorities have accused Bankman-Fried of stealing customer funds from FTX …
Read More »‘We’re trapped’: Britons in homes with unsafe cladding see no way out as living costs soar
[ad_1] London CNN — In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building in a town north of London, where a train could get …
Read More »A stomach-churning year for markets in 5 charts
[ad_1] New York CNN — Wall Street is bidding goodbye — and good riddance — to 2022. It has been a year most investors would rather forget. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, snarled supply chains and another year of Covid turned markets on their head this year. Inflation surged around the …
Read More »Premarket stocks: Wall Street kills its darlings
[ad_1] A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN — Verbose writers afflicted with the tendency to deliver …
Read More »Consumers kept the economy hot in 2022. Now they’re losing steam
[ad_1] Minneapolis CNN — For a year that held promise of a return to normalcy, 2022 threw plenty of curve balls at the American consumer. Supply chains remained in disarray as ongoing snarls were drastically worsened by lockdowns in China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, average US gas prices shot …
Read More »‘Life or death.’ As Britons buckle under the cost of living crisis, many resort to ‘warm banks’ for heat this winter
[ad_1] London CNN — In a community center in central London, a young child plays in a makeshift area as her caregiver rocks her stroller and chats to a friend. The Oasis Centre in Waterloo sits in a four-story building that has a warm, inviting feeling, with plush chairs and …
Read More »Opinion: Crypto was billed as a vehicle to wealth. For many Black investors, it’s been anything but
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Tonantzin Carmona is a David M. Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her most recent work has focused on the risks and drawbacks of cryptocurrencies, particularly their impact on Black and Latinx communities. The views expressed here are her own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN — …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Twitter obsession isn’t the core reason for Tesla stock’s plunge
[ad_1] New York CNN — A popular misconception has emerged about Elon Musk and Tesla: The megabillionaire’s love affair with Twitter is the main reason Tesla shares have lost so much value this year. But Tesla’s steep stock selloff this week proved that the problems at Musk’s car company go …
Read More »The US economy grew much faster than previously thought in the third quarter
[ad_1] New York CNN — America’s economy grew much faster than previously thought in the third quarter, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s battle to cool the economy to fight inflation t is having only limited impact. The Commerce Department’s final reading Thursday morning showed gross domestic product, the broadest …
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