NFL Posts Highest Ratings Since 2015 Amid Taylor Swift-Fueled Surge in Interest

Retailers — already hard-hit by rampant shoplifting — are facing another threat to their bottom line from scammers who are stuffing bricks, fake receipts and counterfeit goods in return packages. The fraudsters have targeted this retail underbelly to swipe billions of dollars by gaming the returns system, especially after the holiday season, according to a…

Despite the delay in the ban, firms will still be forced to meet strict quotas for selling electric cars from January, ensuring that more than one in five cars sold are zero emission models. If not, they will face heavy fines and the target will go up each year until 2030.

Guy Gittins, chief executive of Foxton’s, London’s biggest estate agent, told the BBC’s Today programme there had been a “huge movement in confidence” late last year with the more new buyers registering compared to the same period in 2023. “I think the prices that we’re achieving at the moment in the UK are relatively steady,…

Amazon is unveiling its first buy now, pay later checkout option for the millions of small business owners who use its online store, CNBC learned exclusively. The tech giant confirmed Thursday that its partnership with Affirm is expanding to include Amazon Business, the e-commerce platform that caters to companies. Affirm shares jumped 19% on the…

Shares of Zee Entertainment Enterprises fell sharply Tuesday after news reports that Japan’s Sony Group may call off a merger of its India operations with the former. Zee Entertainment shares fell as much as 13% and were last down 6.7% at 258.75 Indian rupees ($3.12). Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved….

A Florida woman and 15 of her friends have reportedly tested positive with the coronavirus after a night out at a bar in Jacksonville Beach. “Welp, Florida opened back up & my ass should’ve stayed tf home this past weekend cause I just tested positive for the damn COVID,” she wrote on Facebook last week….