When Kylie Jenner launched her billion-dollar cosmetic brand, Kylie Cosmetics, five years ago, an essential item was missing: mascara. Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, which she launched in 2017, didn’t sell mascara when it first launched, but she recently added the beauty product to the line. Lady Gaga’s beauty line also doesn’t include mascara. Mascara, the…… MORE
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak spooked financial markets last week. Now investors are on high alert for economic repercussions. The virus appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan last month and has since…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s attorney Alan Dershowitz, played by guest star Jon Lovitz, wound up in hell during the “Saturday Night Live” cold open. Lovitz’s Dershowitz was meeting with Sens. Mitch McConnell (Beck Bennett) and Susan Collins (Cecily Strong) about the impeachment trial before he had a heart attack. The scene then goes to hell, literally,…… MORE
The Dow and the broader stock market ended deep in the red on Friday as fears over the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus tainted investor sentiment. Stocks started the day higher as it appeared markets were shrugging off the coronavirus news, but took a turn for the worse after a second case was confirmed on…… MORE
Just three days after Boeing warned airlines that they shouldn’t count on the 737 Max flying again before midyear, the US Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it might move faster than that. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson spoke Friday with senior officials at Southwest, United and American Airlines, the three US carriers that own the plane,…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has run more than 200 misleading political advertisements on Facebook in the past day claiming the “Fake News media” will attempt to block the campaign’s upcoming Super Bowl ad — despite federal regulations that require the TV spot be aired. The messages, posted to Facebook on Thursday and Friday and…… MORE
The stock market has been on fire for the past year and keeps hitting new record highs. So who needs fund managers to pick individual stocks? Investors now get their market exposure through the many passively-run exchange traded funds that mimic the performance of such big indexes as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Those funds…… MORE
The annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos wrapped up Friday with two of the world’s most powerful people disagreeing over how to address the climate crisis and youth activists excoriating the international elite for not doing enough to prevent global warming. After a week of discussions at the World Economic Forum that…… MORE
Was he serious? Or just riffing? Politicos, market watchers and deficit hawks are trying to figure out if the president really opened the door this week to entitlement reform. Asked if entitlements are “on his plate,” the president told CNBC’s Joe Kernen Wednesday, “At some point they will be.” The president said strong US growth…… MORE
America’s biggest retailers are pushing back against this country’s largest meat processors. The future of the nation’s food chain is on the line. Walmart last week opened a meatpacking plant in south Georgia that will cut, package and label its own brand of steaks and roasts to deliver to meat cases at 500 stores in…… MORE
