Shoppers spend on Oxford Street beneath union jack flags in London’s West End, on April 3. Richard Baker | In Pictures | Getty Images This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Each Wednesday, Ian King brings you expert insights on the most important business stories from the U.K. and other key developments…
Doug McIntyre Soccer Journalist Any notion that there might be some lingering animosity between U.S. men’s national team star Christian Pulisic and coach Mauricio Pochettino was quashed by the Argentine manager. “There’s nothing to talk [about],” Pochettino said Tuesday. “I think it is behind us, all that happened in summer. And I think now we…
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on Aug. 26, 2025, for its 10th test flight. Ronaldo Schemidt | Afp | Getty Images SpaceX on Tuesday launched its mammoth Starship rocket, breaking a string of explosive failed attempts earlier this year to deploy its first batch of dummy…
Icons Tiny Plants by Lego. James Manning – Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty Images Flowers, succulents and Formula One race cars helped fuel a 12% revenue bump for Lego during the first half of the year. The company reported a record 34.6 billion Danish kroner, or $5.4 billion, in revenue as part of…
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images It’s starting to feel like we’re in a game of Pac-Man, in which the U.S. government is the eponymous hungry yellow blob furiously chomping on everything in sight. The White House’s…
ANAHEIM, Calif. – It was a swing more than a month in the making, a catalyst for a dramatic turnaround and possibly the antidote to an extended offensive affliction no one on Chicago’s North Side could have seen coming. But Kyle Tucker’s first home run in 34 days – in the Cubs’ 3-2 win on…
European markets are heading for a higher open Wednesday as traders gear up for a quarterly earnings report from chipmaker Nvidia. The Nasdaq-listed stock has become a bellwether for the global technology sector, particularly regarding the progress of the artificial intelligence boom, as its major corporate customers include Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon. Its value…
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with German Gref, the CEO of Russia’s largest Sberbank, in Moscow on July 29, 2025. Mikhail Metzel | Afp | Getty Images Russia’s beleaguered economy, with its slowing growth and widening budget deficit, could be one push-factor when it…
Both the NFC and AFC West could go any way this season. There’s no questioning the talent and the coaching pedigree loaded in these two divisions. The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers met in Super Bowl LVIII and have been perennial contenders throughout the 2020s, with the Chiefs claiming three rings in the…
A Kroger grocery store in Covington, Kentucky. Jeffrey Dean | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kroger on Tuesday announced laying off corporate associates, as detailed in a memo, with a source familiar with the reduction stating that fewer than 1,000 employees will be impacted. The source added that staff working in stores, manufacturing facilities or distribution…
