Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill July 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Eric Lee | Getty Images Two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday said they remained undecided about voting to confirm Todd Blanche for U.S. attorney general, endangering…
Lorie Logan, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, during a research conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, US, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan, asserting that this week’s good inflation news wasn’t…
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images The company behind social-media network Truth Social is launching a service that will give paying customers interested in market-moving information “licensed, real-time access” to posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts, the company said Thursday. Trump’s family is the largest shareholder Trump Media &…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been the lead regulator on event contract exchanges for over 30 years after it issued a 1992 ruling on the Iowa Electronic Markets, widely recognized as the first prediction market. Now, as prediction markets are booming, legal experts increasingly speculate the CFTC’s sibling agency — the U.S. Securities and…
A live feed shows SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on the day of SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York City, U.S., June 12, 2026. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Short sellers are rapidly increasing their bets against SpaceX, driving bearish positioning to nearly one-third of the company’s public float as the…
The world of economic development is spinning fast in 2026. Companies are pressing some specific demands of the states they are willing to do business in. They want low costs, minimal red tape, and turnkey sites that afford them the greatest speed to market. They want cheap and reliable electricity and abundant water in…
President Donald Trump (L) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Reuters | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday that the Trump administration’s overhaul of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans up to $26.5 billion so far, the latest Democratic critique of sweeping changes made to the agency. In a report shared first…
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks to members of the media following the company’s “Japan AI Ecosystem” reception in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the…
A United Airlines plane takes off from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 9, 2026. Joe Raedle | Getty Images United Airlines‘ second-quarter results came in ahead of Wall Street estimates, but billions of dollars in added fuel costs continue to weigh on earnings, the carrier said Wednesday. United forecast third-quarter…
The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore. Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices. That is according to new analysis from Bain & Company using NielsenIQ grocery data shared exclusively with CNBC. Grocery units, which refer to…
