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By Moira Ritter, CNN Business Low-wage workers are making “eye-popping” gains in their paychecks, according to Goldman Sachs. The bank told clients in a note Thursday that low-wage-worker pay rose 5.3% year-over-year in the second quarter. For the third quarter, the data isn’t complete yet, but preliminary readings are on pace for a three-decade high

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business An alien symbiote, cinema’s most famous spy, its most infamous masked murderer and a film adaptation of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time. That sums up the lineup at the box office in October — a vital month for the movie theater industry since it

Opinion by David M. Solomon and Kenneth Adams for CNN Business Perspectives America’s more than 30 million small businesses have been some of the hardest hit by the pandemic. They employ nearly half of our workforce, and yet they’re far less resourced and capitalized than they were just 18 months ago. And now, entrepreneurs from

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business A key measure of inflation hit a new 30-year high in August, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Friday. The price index tracking consumer spending — the PCE price index — was up 4.3% over the 12 months ending in August. That was a faster pace than July’s 4.2%. Inflation

By Walé Azeez, CNN Business Worker shortages have left UK service stations empty, created gaps on supermarket shelves and are forcing farms to cull pigs. Even the finance industry is starting to suffer. The situation could get much worse this winter if the British government doesn’t relax its Brexit immigration rules, business leaders say. Farmers,

By Matt Egan, CNN Business The United States could be just weeks away from defaulting on its debt for the first time ever. The $28.4 trillion debt limit was reinstated August 1. Since then, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been keeping the nation’s finances afloat by using emergency accounting maneuvers. Known as “extraordinary measures,” these

By Sara Spary, CNN Business Large UK companies are required to reveal their gender pay gaps. But the rules are failing to address inequality, according to a new report. The research, by the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London and the Fawcett Society, concludes that the UK’s mandatory gender pay gap reporting,

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Bitcoin is among the most polarizing investments in history. Ask a skeptic, and they’ll tell you it’s a bubble that’s about to pop. Ask a believer, and they’ll tell you it’s a bubble that will keep expanding forever. Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of crypto fund Galaxy Digital, is among