A sign for the CDC sits outside of their facility at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 30, 2025. Megan Varner | ReutersMore than a dozen pages on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website related to sexual and gender identity, health equity, and other topics have been taken down, CNBC has learned. The CDC received a directive from the Health and Human Services Department, which oversees the agency, to remove certain webpages by the end of the day Sept. 19, according to an internal CDC email viewed by CNBC, which was…
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SHANGHAI, CHINA – MARCH 27, 2025 – Pedestrians walk past a ARC’TERYX flagship store in Shanghai, China on March 27, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Canadian outdoor apparel brand Arc’teryx’s bold fireworks campaign at the foothills of the Himalayas last Friday was meant to promote its commitment to nature. Within days, it drew fiery social media backlash over the risk it posed to one of the world’s most fragile ecosystems and prompted a government investigation.The mountaineering brand’s poor public response and reports of residual debris across the mountain slopes that followed has further fueled outrage and offered…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Paccar — The maker of Peterbilt trucks jumped 5% after President Donald Trump slapped a 25% tariff on imported heavy trucks starting Oct. 1. Boeing – The aircraft maker rallied more than 4% after Turkish Airlines ordered 75 Boeing 787 aircraft and said it completed negotiations to buy 150 737 MAX planes. The deal came as Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan met with President Donald Trump. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration said it “will allow limited delegation to Boeing for issuing airworthiness certificates for some 737 MAX and 787 airplanes” starting Monday.…
Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg said Friday that tech companies should keep a distance from politics and people should feel “uneasy” about those firms intervening in the public space.”I generally don’t think that politics and tech innovation mixes very well,” Clegg told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think it’s quite good when they kind of keep each other at a certain, respectful distance.”President Donald Trump’s deal with China this week to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. includes heavy doses of both elements, and the balance between the technology and political interests will be closely watched.Clegg said two details should…
When Hou Yujie isn’t convincing customers to rent traditional Chinese clothing for photos at the country’s famous Forbidden City, she and her friends are checking stocks.Hou recently put 10% of her money in the market. In just a few days, she earned one month’s salary — and she’s thrilled. “Interest rates for bank deposits are so low I don’t even want to bother,” Hou said at her shop outside the Beijing tourist site. “Stocks are a hot topic right now.”Chinese stocks, once deemed univestable by many, are luring both local and foreign investors impressed by recent returns. The Shanghai Composite hit…
The markets could be in for some choppiness if the government shutdown next week, according to Bank of America. While outcomes can vary widely, the bank found that the S & P 500 averages a loss of 5% between the week before and the week after a shutdown, based on data going back to 1990. That said, when looking at the same period for the shutdown that ran from the end of 2018 in 2019, the broad index rallied 6%. Here’s BofA’s breakdown of market performance around government shutdowns: Congress has not yet reached a deal to fund the government…
IBM is not your grandfather’s “big blue” stock anymore. The company has quickly blossomed into an essential leader in the quantum computing world. I want to own IBM using options to capture this potential new quantum computing “king”. IBM’s leadership, particularly under CEO Arvind Krishna, has transformed the company by making bold initiatives to divest from lethargic and legacy businesses and redirect the company’s focus to high-growth areas of hybrid cloud and (AI) artificial intelligence. HSBC on Thursday announced it has successfully used quantum computing in a trial to optimize bond trading, making it the first in the world to…
Internal Revenue Service headquarters on April 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. J. David Ake | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe Internal Revenue Service has been slow in recent weeks to approve and pay federal tax credits for electric vehicles, according to auto dealers and industry analysts — creating confusion for car dealers and hindering EV sales less than a week before the tax break is slated to disappear.The delays began in earnest in mid-September, according to accounts shared with CNBC from three dealers in different parts of the country. Auto analysts and two national trade associations also confirmed to…
Howie RubinJonathon Ziegler | Patrick McMullan | Getty ImagesFamed money manager Howard Rubin was arrested Friday morning on charges of sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines for commercial sex acts over the course of a decade, according to a new indictment.Rubin participated in sex acts with the women in luxury hotels, and later, a rented penthouse apartment in Manhattan that was converted into a so-called “sex dungeon,” the court filing says.”During many such encounters, Rubin engaged in conduct beyond the scope of the women’s consent,” an indictment alleges.The 70-year-old Rubin, whose formal personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, was also…
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions.The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown its business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in just two years, as demand for Claude’s models accelerates across industries and regions.On Friday, the company announced it will triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold in 2025, as it scales beyond the U.S. and intensifies competition with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.That expansion comes as international demand increasingly drives the company’s momentum. Claude’s global usage has reached an inflection point:…
