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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Six employees at a Buffalo Starbucks that recently voted to join a union walked out just before 9 am Wednesday citing health concerns, prompting the temporary closing of the store. Starbucks said it had closed that location and others in the city to in-store customer traffic Monday, restricting them to

By Niamh Kennedy, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will receive a confidential sum from the Mail on Sunday for infringement of copyright as her lengthy legal battle against the British tabloid comes to an end, court documents show. The duchess took two separate claims against the newspaper’s publisher: one of copyright infringement and another of

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors unveiled a new battery-electric pickup truck, the Chevrolet Silverado EV, during the Consumer Electronics Show. Although it shares its name with the popular gasoline-powered Silverado pickup, this Silverado is a completely different truck with a distinct design and major features not found on the internal combustion-powered models. GM’s

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Bitcoin prices have pulled back lately — but Goldman Sachs still sees strong gains ahead in the coming years. The world’s most valuable cryptocurrency has fallen to about $43,000 after surging to a record high near $69,000 in November. Yet Goldman Sachs said in a report this week

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business For many people, buying a home just wasn’t in the cards this year. There were too few homes for sale that were too expensive to buy. Indeed, home prices have been on a tear, with third quarter home prices up more than 18% from a year earlier, according to the

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Upstart electric truck maker Nikola is dropping its $2 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Tesla in which it charged that its larger, more established rival stole parts of Nikola’s design for a heavy duty truck. The suit was originally filed in 2018, when Tesla was still losing money, running short

By Charles Riley, CNN Business The United States is now the world’s leading exporter of liquified natural gas as Europe’s energy crisis and shortages in China send demand for American shipments soaring. LNG exports from the United States topped 7 million tonnes (7.7 million tons) in December, according to ship-tracking data from ICIS LNG Edge,

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Markets climbed a wall of worry to new heights in 2021. Buoyed by gains at the end of the year, Wall Street is now even more certain there will be an encore performance. What’s happening: The risks identified over the past 12 months — looming interest rate hikes, rising inflation,

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business A surge in Covid cases and severe winter storms created a miserable holiday travel season for hundreds of thousands of stranded airline passengers. But airlines’ staffing cuts were also to blame for the 20,000 US flight that have been canceled over the last two weeks. Airlines went into the busiest

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business China Mobile’s stock rose on its first day of trading in Shanghai, where it was forced to retreat to after being booted off Wall Street a year ago. Shares of the Chinese telecom giant were up 1.8% on Wednesday after it pulled off mainland China’s biggest listing in 10 years,