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Dalston, the home of floral entrepreneur Kaiva Kaimins, is a vibrant enclave in East London filled with independent businesses. Kaimins takes CNBC Travel on a tour of her favorite spots.Florist Kaiva Kaimins may have been born in Australia, but Dalston is his hometown.Kaimins lives and works in the East London enclave, where she set up her floral studio My Lady Garden in 2020.It’s a physical manifestation of the Instagram account of the same name she started in 2016 during floral school.”I eventually want to work for myself full-time,” Kemmings told CNBC Travel. “I already had some events booked for the…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell unveiled the latest buzzwords to describe monetary policy and “recalibrate” policy at a critical moment for the central bank.At a news conference after Wednesday’s meeting of the Open Market Committee, Powell used variations of the word no less than eight times to try to explain why the Fed took the unusual step of cutting interest rates by a half-percentage point in the absence of significant weakness in the economy.”This recalibration of our policy stance will help maintain the strength of the economy and the labor market and will continue to drive further progress on inflation…

An employee performs final inspection on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant in Vance, Alabama.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesBenz The company’s shares fell more than 8% on Friday, becoming the latest automaker to cut its guidance this year as sluggish demand in China and trade disputes weigh on the industry.The company said late on Thursday it now expects group earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) to be “significantly lower” than the previous year, with adjusted return on sales to be between 7.5% and 8.5%, down from its previous forecast of 10% to 11%.The stock…

Customers enter a Commerzbank branch on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, in Berlin, Germany.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCommerzbank shares jumped at the open on Wednesday after Italian bank UniCredit acquired a 4.5% stake in the Frankfurt-based bank from the German government.As of 12:54 noon London time, shares of Commerzbank listed in Frankfurt were up 20.31%.The stake purchase marks the first step in Berlin’s exit from the German bank. The German government said it had sold about 53.1 million shares of Commerzbank, or about 4.49% of its total 16.49% stake, to UniCredit for about 702 million euros ($775 million).The German government…

JetBlue Airways aircraft in Terminal 5 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.Leslie Josephs | CNBCJetBlue Airways It will open its first airport lounge in more than two decades of flying, a major shift for the budget airline as it chases high-spending travelers.JetBlue said Thursday the lounges will open late next year at the airline’s hub in New York, followed by Boston.The airline also plans to launch a new “premium” credit card in partnership with its partner Barclays, drawing on the experience of the following credit card companies: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlinesgenerating billions of dollars…

Commuters cycle past the Bank of England (BOE) (left) in the City of London, England, Monday, September 16, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON – The Bank of England said on Thursday it would keep interest rates steady after its first cut in August, despite the Federal Reserve opting to cut interest rates sharply the day before.The Monetary Policy Committee voted 8 to 1 to remain unchanged, with dissenting members voting in favor of another 0.25 percentage point cut in interest rates.The committee said “gradual” monetary easing remains appropriate and services sector inflation remains “high.” The report added that…

Cylib, a startup backed by Porsche and Bosch, is building a large-scale electric vehicle battery recycling facility in the small town of Dormagen in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region.SelibCylib is building a massive battery recycling plant in Germany, a startup working to reduce waste from electric vehicle batteries that have reached the end of their useful life.Cylib, backed by luxury sports car company Porsche Home appliance maker Bosch started construction on Monday on a new factory in the town of Dormagen in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.With an investment of more than €180 million ($200 million), the 236,000-square-foot facility…

On September 25, 2023, the Commerzbank building in Frankfurt am Main in western Germany (second from right).Kirill Kudryavtsev | Kirill Kudryavtsev AFP | Getty ImagesUniCredit BankA move to take a stake in a German bank Commerzbank Questions have been raised about whether the long-awaited cross-border merger will spur more takeovers and shake up Europe’s banking industry.Last week, UniCredit announced the acquisition of a 9% stake in Commerzbank, confirming that half of the shares were acquired from the government. Berlin has been the bank’s main shareholder since Commerzbank injected 18.2 billion euros ($20.2 billion) to rescue the bank during the 2008…

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Ray Dalio, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, speaks at the Skybridge Capital SALT 2021 New York Conference.Brendan McDermid | ReutersBillionaire investor Ray Dalio said the U.S. economy still faces “massive debt” as the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.The central bank decided to cut the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The rate not only determines banks’ short-term borrowing costs, but also affects a variety of consumer products such as mortgages, car loans and credit cards.”The challenge for…