One in three drivers is behind the wheel without enough car insurance, a figure that’s been climbing since the pandemic.Looking at claims data from between 2017 and 2023, a report from the Insurance Research Council found the rate of U.S. drivers who were either underinsured or completely uninsured jumped from 23% to 33.4%.Nearly every state requires motorists to carry some amount of liability insurance to be on the road legally. In 2017, less than 11% of car accidents with injuries resulted in medical bills higher than the at-fault driver’s liability coverage. That figure rose to 14.7% in 2020 and, by 2023, nearly…
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Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, at the central bank’s headquarters in the City of London, U.K., on Nov. 29, 2024. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told CNBC Tuesday that “the path of interest rates will continue to be gradually downwards,” as the central bank juggles taming inflation and stoking elusive economic growth.”I haven’t changed my mind on that,” he told CNBC’s Annette Weisbach in Sintra, Portugal, where the European Central Bank is holding a forum. “But in terms of where are we going to go in the next meeting? Well, we’ll…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesInternet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners’ permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers’ ability to train their models.Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, effectively giving them the ability to prevent bots from scraping data from their websites.Cloudflare is what’s called a content delivery network, or CDN. It helps businesses deliver online content and applications faster by caching the data closer to end-users. They…
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe.Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesXAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said.Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said on Monday.The funding gives xAI more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its Grok AI chatbot as it looks to compete with bitter rival OpenAI, as well…
A Carrefour supermarket in Perpignan in the Pyrenees-Orientales department in the south of France on Jan. 3, 2025.Jc Milhet | Afp | Getty ImagesEuro zone inflation rose slightly to 2% in June, according to flash data from statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday, meaning consumer prices in the single currency area are now in line with the European Central Bank’s target of 2%.Economists polled by Reuters had expected the reading to come in at 2% in the twelve months to June. Euro zone inflation had fallen by more than expected to 1.9% in May.Core inflation, which excludes energy, food, tobacco and alcohol…
In recent years, the company has transformed from a competent private sector telecommunications firm into a “muscular technology juggernaut straddling the entire AI hardware and software stack,” said Paul Triolo, partner and senior vice president for China at advisory firm DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group.Ramon Costa | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesHuawei has open-sourced two of its artificial intelligence models — a move tech experts say will help the U.S.-blacklisted firm continue to build its AI ecosystem and expand overseas. The Chinese tech giant announced on Monday the open-sourcing of the AI models under its Pangu series, as well as some…
Bitcoin has been relatively calm over the past month while the stock market has reclaimed record highs and recent initial public offerings have ripped higher. That could ultimately be a point in its favor. The leading cryptocurrency has not made a new record high since May 22, according to CoinMetrics data. However, Trivariate Research founder Adam Parker said in a note to clients that bitcoin is starting to behave less like a meme stock and seems to be gaining further traction with the traditional finance crowd, making it “increasingly compelling.” “Bitcoin appears to be trading slightly differently now than previously,…
Philip Lane, chief economist of the European Central Bank.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe European Central Bank’s latest period of monetary tightening is “done,” the institution’s chief economist Philip Lane told CNBC on Tuesday.”We do think the last cycle is done, bringing inflation down from the peak of 10[%], back to 2%, that element is over, but on a forward-looking basis we do need to stand ready to make sure that any deviation we see does not become embedded, does not change the medium-term picture,” Lane said in an interview with CNBC’s Annette Weisbach at the ECB’s annual forum in…
Euro zone inflation risks tilted to downside, Belgium’s Wunsch saysRisks to inflation and growth in the euro area are now tilted to the downside, Belgian central bank chief Pierre Wunsch told CNBC’s Annette Weisbach at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra.”There is a broad consensus that we are very close to [the ECB’s 2% inflation] target now, the job is mostly done,” Wunsch said.Pierre Wunsch, governor of the National Bank of Belgium, at ECB And Its Watchers conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images”We’ve had two years of relatively slow growth…
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — or officially, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — is a controversial piece of legislation, but some banks are in favor of it, saying it’s the shot in the arm the economy needs.It was advanced in a narrow 51-49 vote in the U.S. Senate late Saturday, moving the large spending measure closer to the president’s desk.The bill, which is characterized by sweeping tax reforms and targeted incentives and is forecast to add to the federal deficit, has triggered warnings from credit agencies…
