Discovery CEO Zaslav: We need to disrupt ourselves to be ‘relevant on all platforms’

Media companies need to “disrupt” themselves to be rewarded by shareholders and become relevant on all platforms, Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav said Tuesday. Zaslav, a former executive at CNBC parent NBCUniversal, spoke with CNBC in a...

Hit by Lightning: Tales From Survivors

Hit by Lightning: Tales From Survivors By LIZETTE ALVAREZ July 18, 2017 By LIZETTE ALVAREZ July 18, 2017 PONCE INLET, Fla. — It was a drizzly, dark January morning but James Church grabbed his fishing pole and tackle box anyway, hopped in his...

Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Alibaba’s Jack Ma host US-China Business Leaders Summit

[The stream began at 8:50 a.m. ET and ended at 9 a.m.] Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Chairman, CEO, and co-founder, and Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba, co-chaired the inaugural U.S.-China Business Leaders Summit at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The summit...

Surprise drop in UK inflation is good news for consumers | Larry Elliott

Rising inflation has been one of the big economic stories of the past year. The depreciation of sterling after the EU referendum has made the things Britain imports, such as clothes and food, dearer and the cost of living has risen steadily as a result. The drop in...