Category: Industries

November 19, 2019

CNBC’s Jim Cramer ripped into Kohl’s on Tuesday after the department store chain reported disappointing earnings and warned on forward guidance. “This is awful,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” as shares of Kohl’s tumbled more than 18%, on […]

November 19, 2019

Problems require solutions, and complex problems require sophisticated solutions. Consider Mayor de Blasio’s approach to struggling schools. Unlike his predecessor Mike Bloomberg, de Blasio hasn’t closed struggling schools en masse. Across the city, he has invested in wraparound social services […]

November 18, 2019

Oil futures edged lower in quiet trade Monday, as bulls struggle to build on gains seen last week on rising optimism over prospects for a so-called phase one U.S.-China trade deal. West Texas Intermediate crude for December delivery CLZ19, -0.83% […]

November 15, 2019

U.S. farmers have paid a steep price during Washington’s months-long trade war with Beijing, losing almost two-thirds of their exports to China. Now, however, there is hope as trade talks—with U.S. agriculture squarely in the center—seem to be closing in […]

November 14, 2019

In an era of negative interest rates in Europe, monetary policy should not be geared towards appeasing the banking sector, BNP Paribas Chairman Jean Lemierre has said. Speaking to CNBC’s Annette Weisbach at the BNP Conference in London on Thursday, […]

November 13, 2019

Chip stocks may be pointing the way to a rebound in the manufacturing economy. Manufacturing activity has been contracting since the summer, according to the widely watched ISM manufacturing index, but that may be about to change. Natixis economist Joseph […]

November 12, 2019

A disappointing forecast in August, hinting at weakness in China and corporate tech-spending, knocked Cisco Systems Inc. shares down. The question when Cisco delivers its most recent quarterly update is whether that spending trend continues. Cisco CSCO, -1.49% is seen […]

November 12, 2019

As coal prices tumble and bankruptcies rise, a few U.S. miners are still pushing ahead with plans to expand. Arch Coal Inc. and Consol Energy Inc. remain on track to open new mines to dig steelmaking, or metallurgical, coal from […]

November 11, 2019

(BEIJING) — Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com reported a total of more than $50 billion in sales on Monday in the first half of Singles Day, an annual marketing event that is the world’s busiest online shopping day. Singles […]

November 8, 2019

California’s power woes are making things worse for small business owners—but business is booming for the makers of backup generators. Across the state, hundreds of thousands of small businesses lost power in multi-day outages during the month of October. The […]