Darden shares pop 4 percent on strong earnings beat, Cheddar’s acquisition

Shares of Darden Restaurants were up more than 4.5 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company posted better than expected fiscal-third-quarter earnings and disclosed a deal to buy Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. The company reported earnings of $1.32...

Treasury’s Mnuchin is out of touch with reality on A.I.’s job-destroying potential, billionaire says

The U.S. workforce is about to undergo “unprecedented job destruction” as computers and robots get smarter, billionaire Jeff Greene told CNBC on Tuesday. The founder of The Greene Institute, which holds an annual conference focusing on disruptive forces in...