A worker grinds at a workshop of an equipment manufacturing company in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China’s Shandong province, March 31, 2023. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s manufacturing activity continued to expand among smaller manufacturers in November, signaling that the country’s recent stimulus efforts have already helped to lift certain sectors … Read more
Mahindra & Mahindra , one of India’s largest automakers, last week unveiled two new electric vehicles priced around $25,000, challenging both domestic and international rivals in the growing Indian EV market. The news has led some analysts to turn even more bullish on the stock, with almost 90% of those covering it giving the company … Read more
A heavy traffic jam with many cars on the road in Chaoyang district in Beijing, China. Sw Photography | Digitalvision | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to kick-start a data-heavy week mostly higher, with investors awaiting economic readings from several countries, including Japan, South Korea and China. Over the weekend, China released its official … Read more
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., November 29, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures were little changed Sunday night as investors looked toward the final month of trading this year. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 11 points, trading near … Read more
Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of Stellantis NV, speaks to the media at the Stellantis auto manufacturing plant in Sochaux, France, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT – Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has unexpectedly resigned from the automaker amid increasingly “different views” between the executive and the board … Read more
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares (C) answers journalists’ questions after attending a visit of the production line of the new Peugeot e-3008 and e-5008 electric car at the Stellantis car factory in Sochaux, eastern France on October 3, 2024. Frederick Florin | AFP | Getty Images Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is stepping down after nearly four … Read more
Massad Boulos in Dearborn, Michigan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. AP Photo | Julia Demaree Nikhinson President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage the Arab American … Read more
Customer-facing chatbots have already become a presence in some of the most common interactions within our daily lives, from Walmart using AI to help associates on the floor to Tractor Supply sales reps’ use of wearable AI tech. The IT support desk within companies that a generation of workers have come to depend on, for … Read more
AuliÊ»i Cravalho voices Moana in Disney Animation’s “Moana 2.” Disney It was all feast and no famine at the Thanksgiving box office this year. The tag-team of Disney’s “Moana 2,” Universal’s “Wicked” and Paramount’s “Gladiator II” pushed the five-day Thanksgiving holiday to its biggest haul in cinematic history — an estimated $420 million as of … Read more
From ballooning credit card debt to unexpected emergency expenses, any number of things can spark money worries. And the key to overcoming it starts with your mindset, says Aja Evans, a financial therapist and author of “Feel Good Finance.” That’s why she advises many of her clients to tell themselves one phrase “as much as … Read more