Your Pulse On America: Live And Unfiltered
A 12-pack of Coca-Cola is displayed on a counter in a 7-Eleven convenient store in Austin, Texas, on July 17, 2025. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations. Shares of the company rose 1% in premarket trading. Here’s what the company reported compared with what…
With the U.S. economy solid but still facing elevated risk of recession — or, as President Trump described it in May, in a “transition period” — states are pitching themselves as the most stable place for companies to locate no matter what happens to the economy. “Multiple international headquarters, hundreds of billions of committed investments…
Miami, Hialeah Gardens, Florida, Walmart Supercenter, checkout line cashier, customers paying. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Hispanic consumers are cutting back their grocery spending on everything from beer to cooking spray, executives said during recent earnings calls. Coca-Cola, Constellation Brands and Colgate-Palmolive are among the companies that have reported a slowdown…
Coca-Cola cans are pictured in a supermarket in Bayonne, New Jersey, on April 8, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Coca-Cola beat Wall Street’s quarterly earnings and revenue estimates Tuesday and largely reaffirmed its full-year outlook, as it said it expects the effects of global trade conflicts to be “manageable.” For 2025, Coke…
More than three weeks after the calamitous April 2 “reciprocal tariffs” announcement threw the stock market into chaos, investors are trying to make sense of a world in which higher tariffs are likely here to stay — and one in which the U.S. may have lost its edge. Stocks have been stuck in a wide…
A customer shops for produce at an H-E-B grocery store in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2025. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Shoppers will likely pay more for coffee, bananas, vanilla and toilet paper over the coming weeks as the Trump administration’s new tariffs go into effect. The U.S. plans to hike tariff rates on…
President Donald Trump holds an executive order about tariffs increase, flanked by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Fear of rising supply chain costs as a result of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs expected to be implemented…
James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” outside of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, fueled by a global rise in demand for its drinks. Shares of the company rose 2%…