Ahead of the 2018 holiday season, Target added a quarter-million square feet of space permanently dedicated to toys across more than 500 stores. Target didn’t have the strong holiday in the toy department that many expected, ringing alarm bells for the entire industry. Then there is the lingering pain from the Toys R Us bankruptcy. When Toys R Us shuttered, toymakers lost a lot of shelf space and also had huge inventory issues. The only true winner this holiday season was Amazon, which continued

The trade agreement signed Wednesday by President Donald Trump and China includes a provision to stanch the sale of counterfeit goods on e-commerce platforms like Amazon. China has agreed to consider revoking an e-commerce platform’s operating license if there are repeated sales of counterfeit or pirated goods. The U.S., meanwhile, has agreed to study additional measures of combating the online sale of counterfeit or pirated goods. China shall provide that e-commerce platforms may have their ope

The trade agreement President Donald Trump signed with China on Wednesday includes provisions on intellectual property enforcement and protections against forced technology transfers. Here’s what the agreement says about IP enforcement:Each Party shall determine the appropriate method of implementing the provisions of this Agreement within its own system and practice. If necessary, each Party shall provide suggestions for the amendment of laws to its legislative body according to its domestic le

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass a resolution sending articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for a trial on whether to convict him and remove him from office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to sign a copy of the resolution later Wednesday during an engrossment ceremony with the newly announced team of Democratic House impeachment managers. Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate is expected to begin Tuesday, according to Senate Majority

China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion in U.S. goods over the next two years as part of the “phase one” trade deal. The two nations signed the first-phase trade agreement Wednesday afternoon at the White House. The phase one deal is seen as a sort of truce and includes concessions by the Chinese to crack down on intellectual property theft and the forced transfer of American technologies. But it also includes import targets for Beijing, which has promised to buy a host of American p

Through the deal, the Trump administration aims to resolve some longstanding American concerns about Chinese trade abuses. President Donald Trump signed a partial trade deal with China on Wednesday as the world’s two largest economies try to contain an economic struggle. The Chinese leader called the trade deal “good for China, for the U.S. and for the whole world,” according to a translation. In other words, we’re negotiating with the tariffs,” Trump said. Still, the White House has said it wil

Epic let players upgrade weapons in the first Fortnite Chapter 2 patch. But the new v11.40 update includes an option for players to “sidegrade” their assault rifle, turning it into a Heavy Assault Rifle instead — but only in non-competitive playlists. As of this patch, it seems like the standard Assault Rifle is the only weapon players can sidegrade. The Heavy Assault Rifle had been removed from Fortnite for quite a while, and was only reintroduced in patch v11.40. It’s possible that Epic could

Karakin is the game’s smallest map so far, which should also make it the most intense. Karakin is playable on the PUBG Test Server right now. It’s 2×2, making it half the size of Sanhok, PUBG’s previously smallest map. Thanks to its tiny size, Karakin will only support 64 players, rather than the standard 100, but it shouldn’t feel any less intense. This kind of dynamic map change is entirely new to PUBG and at this point is exclusive to Karakin.

It’s called the Road to SI 2020, and it starts today, and runs until Feb. 16. Set up on the infield is a kill house stocked with rooms and other callbacks to other maps in the Rainbow Six Siege lineup. The season-ending Six Invitational 2020 will bring 16 top teams to Ubisoft Montreal to compete for a large, cash prize pool. The Six Invitational 2020 begins Feb. 7. and runs for a week. The Road to SI 2020 also provides a 25% boost for ranked and unranked playlists, which increases to 30% for Yea

Steam is finally getting a category listing for soundtracks, which cleans up how they’re offered on the marketplace. Since they’re no longer classified as DLC, that means soundtracks will no longer have system requirements in their listings. Steam is introducing a new download format called “Soundtracks” so the UNDERTALE Soundtrack won’t be categorized as “Game DLC” anymore. This probably isn’t the end of system requirement goofs across the board. For example, a reply to Fox’s thread shows the f

Mobius Final Fantasy is a free-to-play mobile role-playing game that was released in Japan in 2015; it was released globally in August 2016. In 2017, it came to Steam as a Final Fantasy 7 Remake tie-in. Mobius Final Fantasy is a “gacha” game — like the capsule-toy vending machines. Players use in-game currency, “Magicite” or tickets in Mobius Final Fantasy, to pull collectible cards. Popularity has waned since the game’s release in Japan, but fans are devastated — but not necessarily surprised —

Apple’s impressive rally in 2019 will continue this year thanks to iPhone dominance and the new 5G cycle, according to Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets. The firm raised its price target on Apple to $355 per share from $275 per share, implying 12% upside from Tuesday’s closing price of $312.68 per share. “We believe the potential launch of a low-cost iPhone combined with a 5G upgrade cycle will drive further demand through 2021,” Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley in a note to clients

Turns out, according to personal finance site MagnifyMoney, investing brings a host of bad feelings. The most common regrets: not starting to save for retirement earlier (31%) and not investing in stocks sooner (24%). Even young Gen Z has fear of missing out: Sixty-nine percent of respondents age 18 to 22 said they feel bad about not investing sooner. Given the past 10 years of a bull market, Cummins thinks his retirement money could be as much as six figures higher. “It is very difficult to bea

Scott Olson | Getty ImagesAs the Democrats battle for the 2020 nomination, a recurrent theme has cropped up: Who can excite the base and drive turnout in November. The history of presidential elections suggests that candidates may have a limited role in pushing turnout. What may drive up turnout is the perception that the vote will count because the race will be close. The 2000 Bush-Gore race saw lower turnout than in 1992 or 2004. A close race

will lead a new class into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, and T-Rex. 1 singles: “Saving All My Love for You,” “How Will I Know” and “The Greatest Love of All.” Leader Trent Reznor has become a go-to soundtrack producer in addition to his continued work with Nine Inch Nails. The Doobie Brothers weren’t critical favourites, but they had some indelible rock hits in the 1970s, including “Listen to the Music,” “Black Water” and “China Gro

A bulldozer moves coal that will be burned to generate electricity at the American Electric Power coal-fired power plant in Winfield, West Virginia. Every year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink releases a highly anticipated letter to CEOs and clients. In this year’s letter, out yesterday, Fink announced that the asset management giant would change direction. And it represents a significant change from just a year ago when Fink’s annual letter didn’t even mention climate change. But as we celebrate Fink’

Beyond Meat has proved challenging for its short-sellers, who are currently short roughly 40% of the float but frequently find themselves caught in short squeezes. For Bill Baruch, founder and president of Blue Line Capital and Blue Line Futures, the key level to watch in Beyond Meat is $70 a share. “A close below 70 is very, very bearish,” Baruch told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday, pointing to the chart of Beyond Meat’s stock since the initial public offering last May. But from a fundament

Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Wednesday:”As the risk/reward has become less attractive following the recent rally, we are downgrading Beyond Meat from Outperform to Market-Perform while keeping our target price at $106. In particular, we believe that Beyond Meat’s near-term sales growth potential in the U.S. is largely priced in at this point.” Canaccord raised its price target on the stock and said it was encouraged by the strong demand for the iPhone 11 line-up. “We believe Appl

MaskotIf you waited more than a month for the IRS to process your tax return and get a refund last year, you’re in good company. These taxpayers were flagged because they claimed the earned income tax credit, the additional child tax credit or they had incomplete wage and withholding data on their Form W-2. Approximately 275,000 of these tax returns were held for more than 40 days, resulting in financial hardship for people who relied on those refunds. While delayed refunds may be a nuisance for

Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected Wednesday morning to reveal which Democrats will serve as impeachment managers responsible for presenting evidence to the Senate during President Donald Trump’s trial. McConnell vowed to set impeachment rules over Democrats’ objections, denying the request to guarantee that witnesses would be called. The impeachment inquiry was triggered by Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian Pres