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Watch fans have turned a busy Times Square sidewalk into a campsite for Swatch’s drop with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Loading audio narration… When the two watch brands at opposite ends of the price spectrum said on Saturday that they were teaming up, some people jumped at the chance to buy one before they knew what the collection would be. Swatch and Audemars Piguet later revealed they are collaborating on a collection of pocket watches called Royal Pop.From Houston to New York, collectors and resellers have wasted no time lining up outside their local Swatch store ahead of the May…

In this photo illustration Hantavirus samples are seen in Ankara, Turkiye on May 6, 2026. Arman Onal | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are no hantavirus cases in the country as of Thursday, as it monitors 41 people for the virus.The agency said the risk to the public remains low in the aftermath of an outbreak on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization has reported 11 total cases of hantavirus linked to the outbreak, eight confirmed by lab testing, including three deaths. The spread of the virus has sparked concerns about…

A large-scale Jackson Pollock drip painting titled, “Number 7A, 1948.”Crystal Lau | CNBCA 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.Nearly $2 billion worth of art will come up for auction in New York over the next week, marking the biggest test of the art market since the start of the Iran war.The major auction houses are counting on blockbuster works from famed collections to carry the market past the gloom of geopolitical conflict and volatile financial…

President Donald Trump told Fox News that China has agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets, according to a clip that aired Thursday.”One thing he agreed to today, he’s going to order 200 jets. That’s a big thing. Boeings,” Trump told Fox News, referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping.Analysts had expected a big order of Boeing aircraft to come out of Trump’s visit to China, though analysts had been expecting more, with Jefferies estimating the order would be up to 500 aircraft. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and other top executives from U.S. companies joined Trump on the trip. The manufacturer hasn’t won…

A Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Brian Snyder | ReutersBiogen plans to advance an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease to late-stage testing despite disappointing mid-stage trial data, the company said Thursday.Biogen said its experimental drug that targets tau, a protein associated with the memory-robbing disease, failed to show better responses at higher doses.Nonetheless, Biogen plans to move it into Phase 3 testing because of signals suggesting the treatment decreases levels of tau and slows cognitive decline, particularly at the lowest dose. Dr. Priya Singhal, Biogen’s head of development, said the results are compelling.”We’re really excited that we’ve been able to demonstrate…

In the five years I’ve lived in my house, there’s an entryway bench I’ve never once sat on.This poor, sweet little bench is always buried underneath piles of coats, orphaned socks whose partners have presumably started new and better lives, and the occasional fossilized Girl Scout cookie. Our coat rack cowers in the corner, assuming the posture of a weeping willow in its final days.Many people with children recognize this tableau as the encroaching entropy of modern family life, where nothing seems to have a place, and the thought of fixing the chaos looms so large that it just never…

When I turned 50, I wanted to retire from my career as a pharmacist and move abroad. Loading audio narration… The high cost of living in the US made an early retirement there feel impossible for me, but it seemed within reach with strong financial investments and a strategic move.Mexico was my chosen retirement destination because it’s generally more affordable than the US and close to San Francisco, where my family lives.From there, I settled on Ajijic, Jalisco, a popular Pueblo Mágico (a “magic town” deemed to have cultural, architectural, or historical significance in the country) on the shores of…

Burberry’s scarf game is red hot right now. Loading audio narration… The British luxury brand reported its preliminary results for the year ending March 28 on Thursday, touting strong sales in its scarves category, which were up double digits.During a call with investors after reporting earnings, its CEO, Joshua Schulman, described scarves as a “hero category” for the brand.Its assortment ranges from $275 for a skinny silk scarf in various iterations of its signature check to over $1,000 for its cashmere check scarves. Larger cashmere capes cost over $1,400.Schulman said during the call that Burberry is now expanding its silk…

Nobody likes seeing headlines about Big Tech layoffs, but some smaller companies are taking advantage of access to a fresh pool of top-tier talent. Loading audio narration… Paul Jaeschke, chief product officer at PitchBook, told Business Insider that the private-market data platform was “definitely a beneficiary” of recent cuts across the industry.Amazon let go of 16,000 employees in January from its corporate workforce of roughly 350,000. Meta, which employs about 78,000 people globally, is also planning to reduce its headcount by 10% this month.While those cuts represent a relatively small share of each company’s workforce, in tech hubs like Seattle,…

There’s a lot of public concern that an AI will someday go off the rails and annihilate humanity. Loading audio narration… So it may be a little surprising that Boston Consulting Group is training its customer-facing AI agent, Jamie, on what not to do.Japjit Ghai, a managing director and partner at BCG X, the firm’s tech build-and-design division, said on a recent episode of the company’s podcast that Jamie is learning from both the best — and worst — customer service behaviors of its clients’ salespeople.”We trained the agent by studying the best sellers — their call transcripts, how they…