Domino’s Pizza restaurant showing company logo above entrance, a major pizza restaurant chain with over 15,000 locations in the United States and internationally. Melinda Crawford | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty Images As the restaurant industry aims to lure frugal consumers with discounts and deals, Domino’s Pizza thinks it can steal diners from […]
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FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland November 4, 2009. Jason Reed | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has appointed former biotech executive George Tidmarsh as the agency’s top drug regulator. Tidmarsh, an adjunct professor of pediatrics and neonatology
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Yves here. This post gives a cautiously negative finding on AI implementation in Germany. If one reads carefully, one can infer that a significant part of the survey population is in factory or related settings, such as logistics management, particularly given the comment on lower physical effort and reduction in time spent. We have pointed
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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images Southwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC. Customers can start
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A FlexJet Gulfstream G450 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on May 9, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images An investment group led by LVMH’s private equity arm is buying 20% of private jet company Flexjet, marking the latest push by the luxury industry
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It’s all connected, as they say. And the battles in Ukraine and Middle East between Washington and its adversaries are now spilling over into the Caucasus in earnest. US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack confirmed reports that we noted back on July 7 that the US is weaseling its way into the South Caucasus with its
An employee handles one kilogram gold bullions at the YLG Bullion International Co. headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 22, 2023. Chalinee Thirasupa | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions,
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A recent Wall Street Journal story describes how storied diamond monopolist De Beers is in the process of trying to offload its former core diamond operation. Natural diamond sales and pricing have plunged due to the success of synthetic-diamond makers in making larger and larger stones. I looked at a manufactured diamonds deal in the
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Conor here: A good deep dive into the organized chaos at the USDA. By Sky Chadde who has covered the agriculture industry for Investigate Midwest since 2019 and spent much of 2020 focused on the crisis of COVID-19 in meatpacking plants, which included collecting and analyzing data on case counts. He also served as the
