- 26 May, 2022
Breaking News: Business

Lumber prices dive more than 40% in June, biggest monthly drop on record
- By James K. Craig
- . June 30, 2021
A customer wearing a protective mask loads lumber at a Home Depot store in Pleasanton, California, Feb. 22, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg |
Warren Buffett says the pandemic has had an ‘extremely uneven’ impact and is not yet over
- By James K. Craig
- . June 30, 2021
Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Legendary investor Warren Buffett said the economic

Charlie Munger says he’s in love with Zoom, thinks the videoconferencing trend is here to stay
- By James K. Craig
- . June 30, 2021
Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, revealed he is fond of Zoom, saying the videoconferencing software will keep thriving even as life goes back to

Launch regulations ‘broken’ after delayed SpaceX launch
- By James K. Craig
- . June 29, 2021
SpaceX was seconds away from launching its 20th mission of this year Tuesday when the countdown was halted due to an aircraft entering the launch

United Airlines unveils 270-jet Boeing and Airbus order, its largest ever
- By James K. Craig
- . June 29, 2021
A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines unveiled Tuesday its largest-ever

Stock futures are flat after S&P 500 closes at a record
- By James K. Craig
- . June 28, 2021
U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Monday, after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed at record highs. Futures contracts

Airport restaurants, TSA offer bonuses amid labor shortage
- By James K. Craig
- . June 28, 2021
A Starbucks location that was closed midday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Leslie Josephs | CNBC A worker shortage at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport became

Electric Last Mile is the latest speculative EV company to go public
- By James K. Craig
- . June 28, 2021
Shares of Electric Last Mile Solutions popped on their trading debut Monday on the Nasdaq, adding to a growing list of speculative electric vehicle start-up

$70 million box office haul is pandemic record
- By James K. Craig
- . June 27, 2021
Still from Universal’s “F9.” Universal Universal’s “F9” is paving the way for 2021’s summer box office. Over its opening weekend, the Fast and Furious film

Chinese Communist Party at age 100 confronts growing contradictions
- By James K. Craig
- . June 26, 2021
It must be said this bluntly: the Chinese Communist Party, which turns 100 this week, represents history’s most successful authoritarians. So, why does President Xi