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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business The holidays may not be back to normal this year. But spooky Peeps are back. Last year Just Born, the candy company behind the marshmallow bunnies and chicks, paused production on its non-Easter holiday Peeps. That meant anyone seeking Halloween or Christmas-themed Peeps in 2020 was out of luck. Same

By Anneken Tappe Stocks staged a rebound Tuesday, rallying across the board as Wall Street bounced back from a sell-off at the start of the week. The Dow closed up 0.9% or 312 points, while the S&P 500 finished 1.1% higher. The Nasdaq Composite closed up 1.3%. In fact, everything went up Tuesday: While stocks

By Walé Azeez, CNN Business The United Kingdom is suffering from fuel shortages, gaps on supermarket shelves, rising inflation and slowing economic growth. Prime Minister Boris Johnson insists he isn’t worried — but should he be? Johnson has in recent days brushed aside concerns about snarled supply chains and price hikes, saying they are consistent

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The whirlwind ride for bitcoin continues. The price of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency soared above $50,000 Tuesday morning — the highest level in nearly four weeks. Although there was no specific catalyst driving bitcoin’s recent surge, digital asset investment firm CoinShares notes investors have been plowing money

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Oil prices on Tuesday climbed to their highest level in nearly seven years after OPEC and its allies declined to significantly ramp up production. US crude jumped another 1.4% to settle at $78.93 a barrel. For much of the day, it was trading above $79 a barrel, a level unseen

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Grey Poupon is doubling down on its hoity-toity image with a new white wine. It’s introducing La Moutarde Vin, a limited-edition “celebration” of the white wine used in the mustard recipe. The wine, which is intended for “making lunch feel like a feast” according to a press release from Kraft

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Facebook is having a terrible few days. But there are reasons investors may not abandon the company for long. What’s happening: Big Tech shares tumbled Monday as concerns about inflation pushed investors to pare back their exposure to the sector. But Facebook — which suffered an hours-long outage across all

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an insider trading investigation into transactions by high-level officials at the Federal Reserve. The Massachusetts Democrat called for the agency to conduct a “sweeping review of all securities trades” by Fed officials to determine if they violated

By Laura He, CNN Business A Chinese developer of luxury apartments missed $315 million in payments to lenders on Monday, sparking fears that financial strains in the country’s outsized property sector are spreading beyond the troubled Evergrande conglomerate. Fantasia Holdings, a Shenzhen-based developer, missed repaying $206 million worth of bonds that matured Monday, the company