Your Cheddar hosts Kristen Scholer and Tim Stenovec go through today's top stories. From Nasdaq hitting new highs to bitcoin surging, we cover the top news in business and tech.
The Nasdaq started out the year by breaking 7,000 for the first time. It took just over eight months to make its latest thousand-point move.
Plus Founders Fund, the VC firm founded by Peter Thiel has purchased $15 to $20 million in Bitcoin, according to the Wall Street Journal. That investment is now reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Wages are finally starting to get bigger in cities with low unemployment rates. The labor markets in Minneapolis, Denver and Fort Meyers, Florida have tightened to a point where businesses are starting to raise pay to attract employees.
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell for the third month in a row in August, as higher mortgage rates, rising prices and a dearth of properties on the market shut out many would-be homebuyers.
John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.
