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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home sales in the United States declined for the ninth month in a row in October as surging mortgage rates and high prices pushed buyers out of the market. Sales of existing homes — which include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops — were down 28.4% in October from a

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business In a surprise reversal, Qatar announced a ban of alcoholic beer at the eight stadiums hosting the World Cup. That leaves fans with just one “beer” choice — albeit one that isn’t boozy. Soccer fans will still be able to purchase Bud Zero, an alcohol-free lager that Anheuser-Busch says tastes

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Authorities in the Bahamas have taken control of cryptocurrency assets held by a unit of bankrupt exchange FTX. The Securities Commission of The Bahamas announced Thursday night it has directed the transfer of all digital assets of FTX Digital Markets, The Bahamas-based FTX unit that filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Investors sleuthing for clues about what the Federal Reserve will decide during its December policy meeting got quite a few this week. But those hints about the future of monetary policy point to an outcome they won’t be very happy about. What’s happening: Federal Reserve officials made a series of

By Lindsay Isaac and Sophie Tanno, CNN The blasts at the Nord Stream pipeline in September were caused by an act of sabotage, Swedish prosecutors said Friday after evidence of explosives was discovered at the sites by investigators. In a statement, Mats Ljungqvist, the prosecutor leading the preliminary investigation, described the incident as “gross sabotage,”

By Jeremy Diamond and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden is meeting with business executives and labor leaders to highlight recent progress in combating inflation and steadying the economy, a White House official told CNN. Biden is sitting down in person and virtually with the top executives of such companies as Ford, Kaiser Permanente and

By Swati Gupta and Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace launched the country’s first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S, into space on Friday with support from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Until now, the country’s space industry has been dominated by the state-run ISRO, but Skyroot Aerospace has opened up the sector to

By Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau, CNN Business More than 100,000 people have signed up for a massive recruitment drive by Apple’s supplier Foxconn for the largest iPhone factory in China, according to Chinese state media. The hiring spree comes at a time when Apple is facing significant supply chain constraints at the assembly

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The Tesla board of directors that created the largest compensation package in history for CEO Elon Musk was stocked with friends of Musk, according to court testimony this week. “Yes we’re friends,” former Tesla board member Antonio Gracias said after a long line of questions about his relationships with Elon

By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business The trade group representing the nation’s freight railroads is confident that a strike by more than 100,000 union members can be avoided, even after rank-and-file members rejected the tentative labor deals reached earlier this fall. So far three rail unions have rejected the proposed agreements and are