Category Archives: Money

[van id=”business/2016/10/23/att-to-buy-time-warner-deal-stelter-hit-nr.cnn”]It’s official: AT&T to buy Time Warner in a $85 billion media mega deal. CNN’s Brian Stelter di...

By Chris Isidore The typical retiree’s monthly Social Security check will get only $3.92 bigger next year. That amounts to an increase of just 0.3% — the smallest ever put in place to help...

By Patrick Gillespie The dollar is finding a second wind in 2016. America’s greenback recently hit its highest point since early March, rallying on the rising hopes that the Federal Reserve will...

By Seth Fiegerman And then there were none.Salesforce, the last of the big companies thought to be interested in buying Twitter, said Friday that it has backed out of bidding for the social network.&#...

By Chris Isidore Fares keep falling at Delta Air Lines, and the airline says it expects them to lose altitude the rest of the year. The airline reported Thursday that a key measure of airfares was dow...

By Sandy WellsKABC NewsTime Warner Cable – which at one time was possibly the most consumer-loathed commercial entity in history – is gone, absorbed by Charter Communications and has been ...

Bass Pro Shops is buying Cabela’s in a $5.5 billion deal that brings together two prominent outfitters for the great outdoors. Bass Pro Shops sells fishing supplies, and Cabela’s is a hunt...

By Katie LoboscoThe state of Illinois is suspending most of its banking relations with Wells Fargo.Illinois is the second state, following California, to punish Wells Fargo with a one-year business mo...

Orange County is about to lose 136 part-time pages at local libraries. The union representing regular full-time library workers has succeeded in pressuring the county to stop renewing the six-month co...

By Seth FiegermanSalesforce clearly doesn’t want Microsoft to be part of its professional network anymore.Salesforce, which once enjoyed a cozy relationship with Microsoft, now plans to make the...