Author: Daniel snow

A woman takes pictures with a Labubu doll at a Pop Mart store in Shanghai, China, on June 5, 2025.Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChina’s consumer prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in May, as Beijing’s stimulus measures appear insufficient to boost domestic consumption while trade tensions simmer.The consumer price index fell 0.1% from a year earlier, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics released Monday, compared with the median estimate for a 0.2% decline among analysts polled by Reuters.The CPI slipped into negative territory in February, falling 0.7% from a year ago, and continued to…

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Wall Street’s focus will turn to inflation after the S & P 500 posted another winning week, which ended on a high note thanks to a better-than-feared jobs report. The week ahead is quiet on the earnings front, with no Club holdings set to report. Events hosted by Club names Apple , Nvidia and BlackRock are on our radar, though. Still looming over everything are tariffs — and the next round of trade talks between the U.S. and China on Monday. What we want there is pretty straightforward: Anything that gives businesses and consumers alike more clarity on what the…

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US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference after a House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 4, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that he hopes President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can “reconcile” after their public fallout last week.”There’s a lot of emotion involved in it, but it’s in the interest of the country for everybody to work together,” the Louisiana Republican said on ABC News’ “This Week.”Johnson said that he has not spoken with Musk about the GOP-led…

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Steve Jobs knew he wasn’t an expert in filmmaking — even after funding a spinout of animation studio Pixar, which was originally division of production company Lucasfilm, in 1986.Jobs was “pretty amazing at saying, ‘this is not my business,'” chief creative officer at Pixar, Pete Docter, said at Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Gala and Summit on Thursday. Jobs’ attitude was “I’m not going to come in here and direct this movie or tell you what to do,” Docter said.As a 35-year employee of the company, Docter got to witness the Apple co-founder operate up close. Here’s one leadership strength…

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