Medicare releases prices for first 10 drugs subject to negotiations

Medicare releases prices for first 10 drugs subject to negotiations

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2022. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday will release prices for the first 10 prescription drugs that were subject to landmark negotiations between drugmakers and … Read more

Elliott’s Starbucks campaign got it a better deal than it asked for

Elliott’s Starbucks campaign got it a better deal than it asked for

People seen around the Starbucks coffee store in Shenzhen, China. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images In May, it was a $2.5 billion stake in Texas Instruments and a $1 billion-plus position at Johnson Controls. In June came a $2 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and an equally large investment in Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. … Read more

Annual inflation rate slows to 2.9%, lowest since 2021

Annual inflation rate slows to 2.9%, lowest since 2021

Signs reading, ‘please bear with us: we are currently experiencing interruptions in our supply chain which may affect the availability of certain products,’ is seen taped to the drive-up menu at a Wendy’s restaurant on May 06, 2020 in Miami, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation rose as expected in … Read more

Elliott to launch proxy fight at Southwest

Elliott to launch proxy fight at Southwest

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7Q8 takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington Virginia on August 13, 2024.  Daniel Slim | Afp | Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management will launch a proxy fight at Southwest Airlines, and intends to nominate as many as 10 directors to the company’s 15-person board, the activist … Read more

Wednesday’s CPI report could mark a change in thinking for the Fed

Wednesday’s CPI report could mark a change in thinking for the Fed

Product prices as seen at Walmart.  Courtesy: Walmart The news Tuesday was good for inflation, and investors hope it will get even better Wednesday when the Labor Department releases the July consumer price index report. With the score being one down, one to go on confirming that the early-year jump in prices either was a … Read more

Wholesale inflation measure rose 0.1%

Wholesale inflation measure rose 0.1%

A key measure of wholesale inflation rose less than expected in July, opening the door further for the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates. The producer price index, which measures selling prices that producers get for goods and services, increased 0.1% on the month, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. Excluding … Read more

Ro launches GLP-1 insurance coverage checker

Ro launches GLP-1 insurance coverage checker

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards The direct-to-consumer health-care startup Ro launched a new free tool Tuesday to help patients determine whether their insurance covers a buzzy class of weight loss and diabetes drugs called GLP-1s.  Most insurance plans cover GLP-1s when they are used to treat diabetes, so those patients can usually avoid the roughly … Read more

Starbucks and activist Elliott met last week to discuss settlement

Starbucks and activist Elliott met last week to discuss settlement

Laxman Narasimhan attends the 2023 TAAF Annual AAPI CEO Dinner at The Pool on September 26, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images for The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). Jp Yim | Getty Images Activist Elliott Management and Starbucks‘ board of directors are in settlement talks, according to people familiar with the … Read more

Trump says he should get a say on Federal Reserve interest rate decisions

Trump says he should get a say on Federal Reserve interest rate decisions

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said that he should have a voice when the Federal Reserve makes its decisions on interest rates. “I feel … Read more

Jeremy Siegel backs off on calls for Fed to do an emergency rate cut

Jeremy Siegel backs off on calls for Fed to do an emergency rate cut

Jeremy Siegel Scott Mlyn | CNBC Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel no longer thinks it’s vital for the Federal Reserve to implement an emergency interest rate reduction, but still wants policymakers to cut quickly and aggressively. Siegel caused a stir Monday when he told CNBC that Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues should institute … Read more