The nation's largest retailers are rolling out fewer early Black Friday holiday sales than last year, Axios' Kelly Tyko writes.
Why it matters: Retailers are banking on inflation-weary consumers showing up in stores, and shopping Black Friday sales online with the lure of deals.
Walmart and Target are among those holding fewer rounds of sales compared to 2022.
More couples are swapping houseware for house funds on their wedding registry.
Why it matters: With the cost of buying a home at historic highs, a growing number of couples are asking for help on a house down payment as a wedding gift.
Wired, the technology publication owned by Condé Nast, is launching a new vertical that will focus on the intersection of tech and politics, the publication's new global editorial director Katie Drummond announced Friday to staff.
Why it matters: The announcement marks the first major move by Drummond since being named the new leader of Wired in August.
Three passengers filed a lawsuit against Alaska Airlines on Thursday after an off-duty pilot in October attempted to cut off a plane's engines mid-flight.
Driving the news: The passengers said in the lawsuit that they have suffered from emotional distress from the incident, including insomnia, anxiety and flashbacks, according to a copy of the filing made available by the law firm representing them.
Mortgage rates hit above 8% recently, according to Mortgage News Daily, but that might not be the whole story.
Why it matters: The rates you see online are just averages. "Averages always mean there's something better and something worse," says Melissa Cohn, who's been in the business 40 years.
There are hopeful signs that the U.S. is adjusting to the high-wage, high-interest-rate economy that's become a post-pandemic reality.
Driving the news: Fresh data Thursday showed U.S. labor productivity growth jumped by a 4.7% annualized rate in the third quarter. That's the fastest — outside a recession when productivity typically spikes — since 2003.
Jeff Bezosannounced last night to his 4.1 million Instagram followers that he's moving to Miami from Seattle, his home for 29 years.
Why it matters: Miami is one of America's hottest new influence frontiers —the rising tech hubsthat are spreading money, power and people beyond the traditional bubbles of the Northeast and California in the post-COVID, work-from-anywhere world.
Ivanka Trump's appeal to delay testifying next week in the New York civil fraud trial of her father, former President Trump, was rejected on Thursday night by a state appeals court.
The big picture: Ivanka Trump's testimony was postponed to Nov. 8 to enable her to appeal the judge's order for her to testify in the case, but the Manhattan-based court rejected her motion for a stay.
Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty Thursday on all seven charges against him, including fraud on FTX customers and investors, fraud on Alameda's lenders and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Why it matters: SBF, one of the most high-profile names in crypto, has been convicted in one of the "biggest financial frauds in American history," where $8 billion in customer deposits went missing from what was then the world's third-largest crypto exchange.
In 2009, I was recruited for one of the most prestigious and cool appointments in American journalism: to serve a nine-year term on the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Three years later, I quit.
I simply couldn't dig deep into 15 books, scores of media stories and esoteric poetry like "Inseminating the Elephant" every year — while trying to run a startup, Politico.
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