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In this article AMZN SBUX WMT HD RCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A customer walks through The Home Depot store on February 20, 2024 in Austin, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images The state of the consumer in 2024 is already taking shape — even before the country’s major retailers begin to report

In this article BOWL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Bowlero location at Chelsea Piers in New York City.  CNBC Dozens of former employees who say they were fired from Bowlero based on their age or out of retaliation plan to sue the bowling chain after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission closed its

In this article SBUX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Howard Schultz, former chief executive officer of Starbucks Corp., drinks from a Starbucks mug during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz

A Dave & Buster’s location in the Gateway Center shopping complex in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Saturday, March 30, 2024.  Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arcade chain Dave and Buster’s plan to allow customer betting isn’t winning over everyone. Software company Lucra Sports announced on Tuesday that it was

Star Wars Lego models are seen at the Bricks & Figs museum in Krakow, Poland, on April 15, 2023. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images If you are a Star Wars fan, Jens Kronvold Frederiksen may have crafted your childhood. A design director at the Denmark-based Lego company, he has spent the past 25 years creating

People walk through the newly opened Grand Central Madison train terminal in Manhattan on February 27, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The strong jobs market has been bolstered post-pandemic by strength in the immigrant workforce in America. And as Americans age out of the labor force and birth rates remain

In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, attends the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Skydance Media is prepared to walk away from its offer for Paramount Global unless it receives

In this article AMGN LLY NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amgen‘s stock rose more than 12% on Friday after the drugmaker teased positive initial data on its experimental weight loss injection.  That fueled investor concerns about new competition in the rapidly growing weight loss drug industry,

In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shari Redstone, non-executive chairwoman of Paramount Global, attends the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 11, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Sony Pictures and private equity firm Apollo Global Management have sent a letter to the Paramount Global

In this article W Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Wayfair app on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wayfair’s sales slid during its first quarter, but the online furniture retailer reduced its losses after cutting 13% of its workforce at the start of the year,

In this article PTON Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Barry McCarthy, president and CEO of Peloton Interactive, walks to a morning session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Peloton announced Thursday that CEO Barry McCarthy will be stepping down

In this article SBUX CMG MCD QSR-CA YUM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Starbucks logo is seen as members and supporters of Starbucks Workers United protest outside of a Starbucks store in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, 2023. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images It’s finally here: the long-predicted consumer pullback. Starbucks

In this article CVNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Vehicles are seen on display at a Carvana dealership in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 20, 2023. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Shares of Carvana popped more than 30% during after-hours trading Wednesday after the automaker reported record quarterly results and turned a profit during the

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aerial view of the Viking Jupiter cruise ship anchored in the port of Montevideo, on January 5, 2022.  Ivan Pisarenko | AFP | Getty Images Viking is not your typical cruise operator. Aboard its smaller, upscale vessels, you won’t find any kids. In fact, the cruise

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023.  Lee Smith | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it is challenging hundreds of alleged “junk” patents held by pharmaceutical companies for 20 brand-name drugs,

Michael Jordan #23 and Scottie Pippen #33 Nathaniel S. Butler In the pantheon of theme songs for TV sports, “Roundball Rock,” John Tesh’s anthem that accompanied National Basketball Association games on NBC until 2002, is arguably the greatest. If NBCUniversal wins the rights to air the NBA again, it would have a chance to bring

In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People talk outside a Wal-Mart Pickup-Grocery store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Rick Wilking | Reuters Walmart is debuting a new grocery brand, as the discounter tries to retain the shoppers it has attracted during a period of high inflation. On Tuesday, the big-box retailer said it

In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bob Bakish, president and chief executive officer of Viacom, attends the fourth day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2023 in Sun Valley, Idaho.  David A. Grogan | CNBC Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish is stepping down, the company announced

In this article BMY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson‘s and Bristol Myers Squibb‘s legal challenges to the Biden administration’s Medicare drug-price negotiations, ruling that the program is constitutional.  The decision is another win for the

In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bob Bakish, CEO of Paramount, speaks with CNBC’s David Faber on Sept. 6, 2023. CNBC In what could easily be a plotline from HBO’s hit show “Succession,” Paramount Global plans to replace Chief Executive Officer Bob Bakish with a cohort of existing division heads on