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Vince McMahon attends a press conference at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Michael N. Todaro | Getty Images World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon announced Friday that he was fully retiring after decades of leading the company founded by his father, a move that comes after it was revealed

In this article VOW’-IT Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen Sean Gallup | Getty Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess will leave the company at the end of August, the company said Friday. Oliver Blume, currently the CEO of Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche, will succeed Diess as of Sept. 1. The automaker didn’t provide a reason for Diess’ departure.

Drew Brees #9 of the New Orleans Saints Gregory Shamus | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Retired NFL superstar Drew Brees is the latest major sports figure to get in on the pickleball craze. Major League Pickleball announced Thursday that the one-time Super Bowl champion has joined the ownership group of the Austin, Texas,

Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has cut roughly 880 corporate jobs in the United States, CNBC has learned, roughly a year after it completed its $21 billion acquisition of rival C-store and gas station business Speedway. 7-Eleven is owned by the Japanese retail conglomerate Seven & i Holdings, which

In this article AAL UAL DAL An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, equipped with radar altimeters that may conflict with telecom 5G technology, can be seen flying 500 feet above the ground while on final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York, U.S., January 6, 2022. Bryan Woolston | Reuters The

In this article CMG A Chipotle Mexican Grill sign is seen in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A union pushing to organize workers at Chipotle Mexican Grill has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after the burrito chain said

In this article UAL United Airlines on Wednesday notched a key profit milestone in its pandemic recovery, but said it will scale back its growth plans through 2023. United reported its first quarterly profit — $329 million — since the Covid-19 pandemic began without the help of federal payroll aid, which expired almost a year

Shoppers explore a mostly empty mall in Columbus, Ohio. Matthew Hatcher | Getty Images Don’t expect the stream of departures from retailers’ C-suites to stop anytime soon. Already this year, Gap and Bed Bath & Beyond abruptly replaced their CEOs as the companies’ sales plunged. GameStop fired its chief financial officer in the middle of

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The pain in the mortgage market is only getting worse as higher interest rates and inflation hammer American consumers. Mortgage demand fell more than 6% last week compared with the previous week, hitting the lowest level since 2000, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Applications

In this article NFLX Good enough. Netflix didn’t blow the roof off its second-quarter earnings. It announced it lost about 1 million global subscribers in the quarter, marking the second consecutive quarter it has hemorrhaged customers. And it lost 1.3 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, marking the third time in the last five

In this article NFLX In this photo illustration the Netflix logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen, with graphic representation of the stock market in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Netflix investors already know to expect bad news when the company reports its second-quarter results Tuesday. Now they’ll be looking for

In this article GM 2024 Chevrolet Blazer SS EV GM DETROIT – General Motors on Monday revealed its new electric Chevrolet Blazer that’s expected to compete against the Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y crossover EVs. The vehicle marks an important launch for the Detroit automaker in attracting attention and more mainstream consumers to

In this article NKLA CEO and founder of U.S. Nikola, Trevor Milton speaks during presentation of its new full-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell battery trucks in partnership with CNH Industrial, at an event in Turin, Italy December 2, 2019. Massimo Pinca | Reuters Electric truck maker Nikola once again fell short of winning shareholder approval to

In this article NFLX Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Netflix reports its second-quarter earnings Tuesday, and the run-up feels like hurricane preparation. A storm is coming. It’s probably going to be bad. Shareholders are praying the foundation is sturdy enough to withstand the damage. Netflix remains the world’s largest streaming service, but the

In this article F 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Ford DETROIT — As Ford Motor ramps up production of its electric F-150 pickup, it’s not giving up on offering new, highly profitable performance models with gasoline engines. The Detroit automaker Monday morning unveiled the F-150 Raptor R, a new version of its high-performance, off-road pickup

Passengers are seen at the Delta Air Lines check-in counters at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of the Fourth of July holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, July 1, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Flights, believe it or not, are getting cheaper. Airfares fell a seasonally-adjusted 1.8% from May to June, according to the latest U.S. inflation

A waiter works at a restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 3, 2022. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Jeff Rothenberg has grown accustomed to long wait times at restaurants, even when tables are visibly open. “Another restaurant we went to had open seats outside, but when we went to the host, they mentioned

Paul Tremblay Source: Paul Tremblay Want to hear a scary story? It was 2015. Paul Tremblay, a New England math wiz with a couple crime novels to his name, was experiencing his big breakthrough in horror fiction. His book, “A Head Full of Ghosts,” an internet-era spin on the demonic possession genre, arrived in June

In this article TSLA Brand new Tesla cars sit in a parking lot at a Tesla showroom on June 27, 2022 in Corte Madera, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Friday that the electric car company could lower prices if inflation “calms down.”

People visit the M&M store in Times Square on July in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic significantly changed consumer behavior from where they shopped to what they bought. That was felt throughout the snacks and spirits industries and some of those habits have hung on, senior executives from Beam