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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business As the recovery from the pandemic took off last year, everything investors touched turned to gold. The US stock market leaped 27%. Bitcoin rocketed to a record high. Commodities like oil and copper soared. Even alternative investments, from trading cards to wine, experienced a boom. Now, the glee of the

By Matt Egan, CNN Business US Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark is pushing back against Senator Elizabeth Warren and others who blame high inflation on dominant corporations. “They’re just plain wrong,” Clark told CNN in a rare interview. “We’ve had decades of low inflation. There wasn’t some magic burst of consolidation in the last

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Peloton’s turnaround plan can’t happen fast enough: The at-home fitness company continues to lose money — and it’s quickly running out of cash. The once-hot company reported a dismal quarterly financial report Tuesday, with sales tumbling 15% from a year ago. Peloton lost $757 million last quarter. Peloton said it

By Matt Egan, CNN Business In another blow to the US economy, prices at the pump soared to fresh record highs. The national average price for regular gasoline climbed more than four cents on Tuesday to $4.37 a gallon, according to AAA. That takes out the prior record of $4.33 set on March 11. The

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Volkswagen Group, the leading global competitor to Tesla, has sold out of electric cars in the United States and Europe this year because of soaring demand and supply constraints. “We are not sold out because we can’t build cars … we are really sold out for electric cars because demand

Opinion by Jeff Tucker for CNN Business Perspectives After 14 straight months of year-over-year home price growth reaching into the double digits, we’re finally starting to see the early signs of a cooling housing market. Don’t worry. A crash isn’t coming. In fact, prices may not even fall. Rather, this will be a much-needed rebalancing

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business A lot is changing fast in the world of crypto, including the tax rules. As with most investments there will be taxes to consider before figuring out how much you really made — or lost — on your digital assets. So if you couldn’t resist getting in on, say, bitcoin’s

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Prices at the pump are once again flirting with record highs. That’s adding to inflationary headaches for families, the US economy and the White House. The national average for regular gasoline rose to $4.328 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. That’s a fraction of a penny shy of the

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US stocks fell sharply on Monday, pushing the S&P 500 below 4000 for the first time in over a year as traders anticipate a new load of bad news on inflation and earnings. The Dow fell about 654 points, nearly 2%. The S&P 500 dropped 3.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Summer 2022 will be huge for travel, as people in the United States and Europe dig out their swimsuits and happily set off on long-postponed vacations. That’s the message from companies like Marriott, Airbnb, Booking Holdings and Trivago, which have been telling investors that after a difficult two years, business

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Business The New York Times has removed the word “fetus” from its Wordle answers in a bid to keep the popular online game “distinct from the news.” In a statement on its website, the Times warned that some users playing the game Monday “may see an outdated answer that seems closely