Samantha Mui, 34, is the founder of Thirsty Dumpling, a do-it-yourself dumpling-making startup.Courtesy of Samantha MuiSamantha Mui teaches people how to make dumplings for a living, making as much as $10,000 an hour, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. That’s more than what she used to make a month from her corporate job.”The biggest win in my life right now is I can go to a corporate office wearing a crop top and ripped jeans, teaching a cooking class and make more in one hour than I’ve ever made in a month,” Mui said.The 34-year-old founded Thirsty Dumpling, which sells…
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“The idea of putting physical metal in a safe jurisdiction like Singapore with parties they can trust is becoming a big trend nowadays,” says Gregor Gregersen, founder of The Reserve.Alessia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe ultra-wealthy are increasingly moving their gold offshore as economic and geopolitical uncertainty roils markets — and Singapore is emerging as a favored destination.Not far from the city-state’s airport sits a six-story facility covered in onyx and fortified by tight security. Tucked behind its steel doors are gold and silver bars amounting to about $1.5 billion.Known as “The Reserve,” the storage facility features scores of…
We take it for granted, the relationship between the United States and the European Union, the one that produces $1.7 trillion worth of goods and services. We take it for granted because of something that happened back on Dec. 11, 1941, when Adolf Hitler declared war on the U.S., and on June 5, 1947, when we announced the Marshall Plan to help rebuild war-torn Europe after the horrors of World War II. What’s incredible is not that we have a president who is willing to challenge the friendship between the U.S and Europe, but that the partnership has lasted so…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron gives a press statement near the Metropole Hotel before attending a state dinner in Hanoi on May 26, 2025. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron visiting Vietnam and Swedish automaker Volvo Cars laying off employees might not appear to have much in common.But they are, on some level, strategic maneuvers in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s deployment of 50% tariffs on the European Union, which he later delayed.Macron sealed a deal with Vietnam for the Asian country to buy 20 jets from European planemaker Airbus, building on an earlier agreement for…
An employee works on a vehicle crankshaft production line at a factory which produces engine parts in Binzhou, in eastern China’s Shandong province on March 14, 2025. Str | Afp | Getty ImagesChina’s industrial profits rose for a second straight month in April, official data showed Tuesday, despite prohibitive U.S. tariffs and persistent deflationary pressures.Cumulative profits at major industrial firms climbed 3% in April after returning to growth in the first quarter of this year, rising 0.8% from a year earlier, reversing the trend of declines since the third quarter of last year.In the first four months this year, industrial…
Overlooking the city with Busan Tower in Yongdusan Park. Nampo-dong, Busan, South Korea.Jungang Yan | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets are set to have a muted open Tuesday, as investors assessed U.S. President Donald Trump’s postponement of 50% tariffs on European Union imports.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was set to open slightly higher, with the futures contract in Chicago at 37,575 while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 37,610, against the index’s Monday close of 37,531.53.Hong Kong markets are poised to open flat with futures tied to the Hang Seng index at 23,200, compared to the benchmark’s last close of 23,282.33.Futures tied to…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on May 21, 2025. NYSEStock futures jumped Monday night after President Donald Trump said over the holiday weekend that he agreed to delay tariffs of 50% on the European Union.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 455 points points, or 1.1%. S&P 500 futures climbed 1.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures popped 1.4%.Trump on Sunday said that he would push back the 50% levy deadline on the EU to July 9 following a request from Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. That comes after Trump last week…
Flags fly at half staff outside the United Healthcare corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Dec. 4, 2024.Stephen Maturen | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesIt took six months, countless hours on hold and intervention from state regulators before Sue Cover says she finally resolved an over $1,000 billing dispute with UnitedHealthcare in 2023.Cover, 46, said she was overbilled for emergency room visits for her and her son, along with a standard ultrasound. While Cover said her family would eventually have been able to pay the sum, she said it would have been a financial strain on them. Cover, a San Diego…
Emergency services at the scene in Liverpool, England, after multiple people were hit by a car during the Victory paradeon May 26, 2025.Phil Noble | ReutersAs thousands of people lined the streets to celebrate Liverpool Football Club’s English Premier League title win, a car collided with a number of pedestrians in the center of Liverpool, a city in northwest England, police said Monday.Describing it as a “major incident” on X, Merseyside police said the car “stopped at the scene and a male detained.” In a later statement, police said “the suspect was white, British and from the Liverpool area.” It added that he…
A stock market riding a heater of historic intensity into last week didn’t need to look far to find a few tidy excuses to cool off. Perched atop a 23% ramp from the tariff tantrum low in early April and sitting just 3% below its all-time peak from three months earlier, the S & P 500 was handed a Moody’s downgrade of U.S. government debt, a fevered Treasury-market sell-off stoking overwrought talk of fiscal breaking points and the re-emergence of punitive presidential tariff threats against the two transnational economic blocs, the EU and Apple. A week ago here, after running…
