Desperate plea from Primm family as gambling resorts on California-Nevada scheduled to close

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There may be some glimmer of hope for Primm Valley Resorts, the last full-time casino still operating in Primm, Nevada, the tiny gambling outpost formerly known as State Line along Interstate 15. Members of the Primm family said in a statement shared with The California Post that they’ll be working to keep the neon glow that […]


Creator content takes the stage — not just for YouTube

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Dwyane Wade, left, and Jesse Riedel speak onstage during the YouTube Brandcast event at Lincoln Center in New York, May 13, 2026. Mike Coppola | Getty Images Among the live sports and entertainment shows that carried media companies’ presentations to advertisers this week, another pitch kept popping up: creator content. The category of videos, which […]


Kevin Warsh’s first challenge as Fed Chair is to fight inflation — while keeping Trump happy

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Ben Bernanke’s Fed pulled off a miracle during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. What might Kevin Warsh be forced to pull out of his hat as the central bank’s new boss? On one level, those perilous years dwarfed any crisis that’s in the foreseeable future for the Federal Reserve. To address it, Bernanke […]


Spirit Airlines’ planes are heading to the desert, led by repo pilots

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When Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on May 2, work for pilot Steve Giordano was just beginning. Giordano, managing partner of the Nomadic Aviation Group, told CNBC he organized a massive repossession of more than 20 Spirit planes that lessors wanted returned. In just over a week, he said he and his team ferried […]


Artificial intelligence job screeners prefer AI-written resumes over human ones, researchers find

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Choose your bot wisely. Job seekers desperate for a new gig now have to contend with a thoroughly modern hurdle: applicant tracking systems that automatically give preference to candidates who used AI to write their resumes. A recent study found AI-powered applicant tracking systems, or ATS, not only prefer AI-written resumes over those composed by […]


Family investors turn to old-economy businesses to avoid AI disruption

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Fish farm nets on the East coast. Shaunl | E+ | 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, straight to your inbox. Equity Group Investments, backed by the family of […]


Berkshire Hathaway reveals stakes in Delta, Macy’s under CEO Greg Abel

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Berkshire Hathaway  on Friday disclosed a new $2.65 billion investment in Delta Air Lines and a small stake in Macy’s, and said it sold many of its smaller stock holdings including Amazon, UnitedHealth Group and the credit card networks Visa and Mastercard. The changes were part of a portfolio reshuffling in the first quarter, which followed the promotion of […]


Chinese EVs are coming to Canada, and dealers are eager to sell them

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Michael MacGillivray sees the arrival of Chinese electric vehicles in Canada as a potential game changer. “I think it is going to a be a huge eye-opener,” said MacGillivray, who oversees 10 dealerships in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada. As the CEO of Century Auto Group and Sigma Auto Group, MacGillivray […]


Everybody on Wall Street is ridiculing Ryan Cohen’s $56B eBay bid — but I’m not so sure

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There’s not a single trader or sophisticated investor I have spoken to who believes Ryan Cohen, the CEO of troubled video-game retailer GameStop, is really going to buy eBay. And yet, I can’t count this guy out – and neither should you.  Yes, there are plenty of reasons to doubt. EBay is five times GameStop’s […]


China will order 200 Boeing jets, Trump tells Fox News

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President Donald Trump told Fox News that China has agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets, according to a clip that aired Thursday, more than the 150 aircraft Boeing had expected. “One thing he agreed to today, he’s going to order 200 jets. That’s a big thing. Boeings,” Trump told Fox News, referring to Chinese President Xi […]