Shaoqing Ren, vice president, autonomous driving development, at Nio speaks about the electric company’s 5nm chip at its tech day in Shanghai on July 27, 2024. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Chinese electric car companies that are already engaged in an intense price war are turning up the heat on another front: Chip-powered tech
Images By Tang Ming Tung | Digitalvision | Getty Images Employers are increasingly putting workers’ 401(k) plan savings on autopilot. But the positive impact of automated retirement savings is more muted than initially thought, new research finds. Previously “underexamined” factors — like workers cashing out 401(k) balances when they leave a job — “meaningfully reduce”
Mortgage rates fell last week for the fourth straight week, but neither current homeowners nor homebuyers seemed particularly impressed. Total mortgage application volume rose just 0.5% last week compared to the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances
‘Alleen samen én met een gedegen visie en plan van aanpak kunnen we de vergrijzing in goede banen leiden. Gebruik daarbij vooral ook het doe- en innovatievermogen van ondernemers en zorgorganisaties.’ Dat was de belangrijkste conclusie van de werkconferentie die ActiZ (branchevereniging van ouderenzorgorganisaties), MKB-Nederland en VNO-NCW vandaag hebben georganiseerd in de Malietoren met bestuurders
Jacob Kupferman | Getty Images The NFL’s most exclusive club is about to let in new members. At a special league meeting in Eagan, Minnesota, on Tuesday, the National Football League’s 32 owners are expected to vote in favor of allowing select private equity firms to buy up to a 10% stake of a team.
In this article JWN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage outside a Nordstrom Rack retail store in New York on Aug. 25, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nordstrom on Tuesday posted earnings that blew past Wall Street’s expectations, indicating the department store is making strides in its efforts to cut costs
In this article 9618-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT JD.com set up an Innovative Retail division that houses its grocery business 7Fresh. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese online retailer JD.com climbed 1.2% on Wednesday, outperforming the decline on the Hang Seng index after the firm announced a $5
A Dollar General store in Germantown, New York, on Nov. 30, 2023. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Three of the nation’s largest retailers — Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Kroger — charge fees to customers who ask for “cash back” at check-out, amounting to more than $90 million a year, according to the Consumer Financial
A recent CreditNews Research study ranked the slowest-selling metro areas in the U.S. The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images Even as mortgage interest rates were rising, home prices reached the highest level ever on the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. On a three-month running average ended in June, prices nationally
EU Tobacco & Cigarette Taxes | EU Excise duties on cigarettes Skip to content Cigarette smokers in the European Union pay far more in excise taxes than they do for the cigarettes themselves. The EU Tobacco TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses
Regeldruk vormt al jaren het grootste knelpunt voor ondernemers. De veelheid aan regels en nationale koppen zet een rem op ondernemerschap en schaadt onze concurrentiepositie. In de handreiking ‘Beter Geregeld’ bieden ondernemers nu zelf concrete oplossingen voor het verminderen van regeldruk. Het rapport is een verdere uitwerking van de Ondernemersagenda ‘Vernieuwen, Versnellen, Verbinden’ en werd
The NBA logo before the game between the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets at Little Caesars Arena on March 11, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. Nic Antaya | Getty Images Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans fans are waiting for a new way to watch local games in the upcoming NBA season. Both teams are exiting