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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The number of first-time claims for jobless benefits dipped to a new pandemic-era low last week. That’s welcome…

By Jordan Valinsky and Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Ford is ending production in India and taking a hit of $2 billion as it retrenches from a market…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Cathie Wood, the CEO of Ark Invest, is reportedly slashing her exposure to China, and switching to stocks that are in…

By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison all but admitted Thursday that his country had asked UK…

By Charles Riley, CNN Business On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ripped off the stimulus band-aid and confirmed that it would start to scale…

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “We Make Movies Better.” That’s the tagline of a new advertisement from AMC Theatres. The…

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America has more job openings than it can fill. That has been a truth of the pandemic recovery. Now the Delta variant…

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Amazon will let you skip the checkout line at two Whole Foods stores next year. Amazon is installing its…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to hike payroll taxes to raise billions in funding for health and social…

By Matt Egan, CNN Business The easiest way to spark a financial crisis and wreck the US economy would be to allow the federal government to default…

By Charles Riley, CNN Business El Salvador’s “Bitcoin Day” did not go especially well. The impoverished country’s vaunted…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden wants to corner the market on electric vehicles. In August, he announced a target that by 2030, half of the…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business This week was supposed to be the time when many workers began returning to offices, and business travelers started…

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By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business BlackRock’s new investment fund in China — the first owned entirely by a foreign firm — has attracted $1…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The 30,000 aluminum tins were supposed to show up in a 20-foot shipping container in July. Months later, they…

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free…

By Lauren M. Johnson and David Williams, CNN Restaurants across the country are struggling to find employees, so one establishment in Dallas decided…

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business At a Munich auto show Monday, Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Life, a tiny, boxy electric SUV, designed for driving…

By Anneken Tappe It’s a volatile day for bitcoin, which briefly fell by more than 10% Tuesday — below the $43,000 mark. The drop comes after…

By Matt Egan Video game CEO John Gibson stepped down from the helm of Tripwire Interactive after his support of the Texas abortion law created a…

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business As abortion rights advocates scramble to fight a Texas law that effectively bans abortion in the state, economists are…

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The pandemic has made it very clear to everyone that life doesn’t go as planned. It’s also been a bracing…

By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Wayne Encalarde’s utility truck and trailer were parked in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward 16 years ago when…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Regulators are worried about all the people plugging cryptocurrencies online. That includes Kim Kardashian, beauty…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist, thinks BlackRock has made a huge miscalculation on China.…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Russia’s space chief was watching as billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson blasted into space aboard vehicles they…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business At a time when many investors are content to follow the crowd and buy top techs like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft,…

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s trade with the rest of the world surged to record highs last month, easing fears that a stubborn coronavirus…

By Merlin Delcid, CNN Business El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency on Tuesday, kicking off a radical…

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business America’s workforce is considerably older and more diverse than it was 40-some years ago. Federal labor…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business TotalEnergies is investing in oil, gas and solar energy projects worth $27 billion in Iraq, returning to the country…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Aluminum prices have reached their highest level in more than a decade following a coup in Guinea, a major supplier…

By Anna Stewart, CNN Business CEO Herbert Diess wants electric cars to make up half of the Volkswagen Group’s sales in 2030, and 100% of its…

By Helen Regan and Angela Dewan, CNN Business The Australian government said Monday that the country would keep producing and exporting coal…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The biggest victory for US unions since Labor Day last year wasn’t at the negotiating table, on the picket line…

By Michelle Toh, Sasha Chua and Chandler Thornton, CNN Business The media company behind the now-shuttered Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily is shutting…

By Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN Marking the return of a months-long movement that has posed a unique challenge to Indian Prime Minister Narendra…

By Ben Westcott, CNN Business Tensions between China and Australia have taken a $4 billion toll on the important trading partnership, but Canberra…

By Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN Hana Mohsin Khan says she knows why she was targeted on a website that appeared to offer her for sale.…

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business New York University researchers discovered scathing new data on the spread of misinformation on Facebook, despite the…

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Mercedes gave details on a number of new electric cars ahead of next week’s Munich transportation show.…

By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business The Labor Day holiday bookmarks the end of summer and the beginning of fall, but above all, it celebrates working…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Plenty of ink was spilled earlier this year when investors, hobbyists and art enthusiasts started frantically buying…

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business GoDaddy took down a website that allowed people to post tips about possible Texas abortions, in the latest example of…

By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Kraft Heinz and two of its former high-ranking executives settled charges with the Securities Exchange Commission,…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The August jobs report was a massive disappointment, with Corporate America hiring far fewer people than expected.…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Here’s another sign that workers are able to command more pay in this Covid-driven economy: Walmart, one of…

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Motors will shut production at most of its North American plants for a week or two starting next week as the…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business All eyes are on the US jobs report for August, due Friday, as the Federal Reserve weighs when to start pulling back…

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free…

By Chauncey Alcorn Everett Benyard thought he was finally in a strong enough financial position to purchase his first home earlier this year.…

By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Biden administration is releasing 1.5 million barrels of crude oil from America’s emergency stockpile of oil as…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Call it love in the time of Covid. Those TV commercials for Jared and Kay — as in “every kiss begins with…

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The Audi Grandsphere, revealed Wednesday, is the German automaker’s idea of what self-driving luxury car…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Online pet supply retailer Chewy got a huge boost during the pandemic as more consumers shopped on their phones…

Opinion by Gad Levanon for CNN Business Perspectives The sharp decline in Covid cases during the first half of 2021 raised expectations that the…

By Jessie Yeung and Meenketan Jha, CNN The air pollution in India is so bad that it could be reducing the life expectancy of hundreds of millions of…

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free…

By Kerry Flynn, CNN Business Joe Rogan, one of the world’s highest paid and most influential podcast hosts, announced Wednesday he has tested…

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Business A federal bankruptcy judge ruled that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, will be…

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Every week we read a new story about a conservative media figure who downplayed Covid-19 or mocked the vaccines and…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The power is off for nearly a million customers in Louisiana after a Category 4 storm slammed into the region. But…

Opinion by Ann M. Ravel and Kristin Urquiza for CNN Business Perspectives In May 2020, months before a Covid-19 vaccine was available and just before…

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Widespread and growing gas station outages are being reported in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, adding to the misery facing…

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Julie Pace, the political reporter turned Washington bureau chief at The Associated Press, is the news agency’s…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Business UK media regulator Ofcom has cleared TV host Piers Morgan of breaching British broadcasting rules with his criticism of…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business There are a number of reasons for global investors to be keeping close watch on China, from signs its economy is…