Luxury stocks slip as fears grow of a prolonged downturn

Luxury stocks slip as fears grow of a prolonged downturn

An advertisement for Hugo Boss AG in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — European luxury stocks tumbled Monday as analysts warned of a deteriorating demand outlook, particularly among high-spending Chinese consumers. Germany’s Hugo Boss was among the worst performers on the Stoxx 600 index by midday, … Read more

Tapestry Capri antitrust trial: Key questions about merger

Tapestry Capri antitrust trial: Key questions about merger

Pedestrians walk past a Coach store and a Michael Kors store. Scott Olson | Getty Images Just a few miles from the birthplace of Coach in New York City, a federal judge will soon decide whether its owner Tapestry can become a bag behemoth — in a decision that will weigh big questions about how … Read more

Top 10 people most likely to reach trillionaire status

Top 10 people most likely to reach trillionaire status

Combination showing Elon Musk (L), Gautam Adani (C), and Jensen Huang (R) Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth … Read more

FTSE 100 drops struggling British luxury brand

FTSE 100 drops struggling British luxury brand

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2020/07/16: Storefront of the Burberry store in the prestigious New Bond Street. (Photo by Dave Rushen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — British luxury fashion house Burberry Group dropped out of the U.K.’s FTSE 100 stock market index on Wednesday, as waning sales and … Read more

Beyoncé launches whiskey line with LVMH’s Moët Hennessy

Beyoncé launches whiskey line with LVMH’s Moët Hennessy

Beyoncé at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2024. Michael Buckner | Billboard | Getty Images Beyoncé is holding her whiskey up high. The megastar is entering the luxury liquor business with the launch of a new whiskey line in collaboration with LVMH’s Moët Hennessy, … Read more

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault’s family office invests in AI startups

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault’s family office invests in AI startups

World’s top luxury group LVMH head Bernard Arnault presents the group’s annual results 2022 in Paris on January 26, 2023. Stefano Rellandini | AFP | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, … Read more

LVMH puts mark on Olympics as luxury brands embrace sports

LVMH puts mark on Olympics as luxury brands embrace sports

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games medals are displayed inside a custom-designed trunk manufactured by Louis Vuitton, an LVMH brand partner of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, during a gathering at LVMH in Paris on July 22, 2024, ahead of the start of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.  Stephane De Sakutin | AFP | Getty … Read more

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault: Olympics sponsorship honors France

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault: Olympics sponsorship honors France

For the first time a luxury brand is an Olympic sponsor. And it’s not just one brand, it’s the empire of LVMH. “We tried to find a way with the Olympic Committee – to be able to show maybe something that has never been done before with the Olympics,” LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault … Read more

Global selloff eases; earnings, U.S. inflation

Global selloff eases; earnings, U.S. inflation

LONDON — European markets opened mixed on Friday, as a global stock selloff eases and investors await a U.S. inflation print. The pan-European Stoxx 600 opened slightly above the flatline, with sectors and major bourses spread between losses and gains. Autos led loses, down 1.2%, as Germany’s Mercedes Benz dipped 2% after narrowing its annual … Read more

Chinese shoppers flock to Japan to take advantage of the weak yen

Chinese shoppers flock to Japan to take advantage of the weak yen

Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Japan – February 23, 2018; Top luxury shopping streets with multi colored neon signs. Ginza avenues are lined with shops of expensive brands and restaurants in the heart of Tokyo. It is half past five p.m. on Friday. People flock to Ginza for shopping, dinner and drinking with their friends. Ginza became … Read more