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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business It’s proposal season, and engagements are on the rise. So are factory-made diamond sales. Not that you’d know the difference. Man-made diamonds look the same as naturally occurring ones. The only noticeable difference is the price tag. “The result is really stunning,” said Edahn Golan, an independent diamond industry analyst.

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Members of Walmart’s discount program will get a bit of relief at the gas pump. Beginning Wednesday, Walmart+ subscribers will get 10 cents off a gallon of gas at participating fuel stations. Walmart previously offered a discount of just 5 cents a gallon to Walmart+ subscribers, and only at 2,000

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is the subject of national scrutiny right now. On Tuesday he alarmed press freedom advocates by lashing out at a press conference and indicating

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced Tuesday afternoon that the online trading platform will lay off 9% of its workforce as shares of the company’s stock hit a new low. In a blogpost, Tenev wrote that Robinhood’s financial position was strong, with over $6 billion in cash on its balance sheet.

By Sugam Pokharel and Mark Thompson, CNN Business Russia has cut off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, dramatically escalating its response to Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Russian state energy giant Gazprom said in a statement Wednesday that it had fully halted supplies to Polish gas company PGNiG

By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Lael Brainard as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair, approving a key Biden nominee empowered to help lead the central bank’s fight against high inflation. Brainard, currently a governor at the Fed, received some bipartisan support, with multiple Republicans supporting her nomination to a

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The first all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in Detroit on Tuesday, with a great deal riding on its launch for both the company and electric vehicles overall. Interest and demand in the vehicles have been very strong, with Ford taking 200,000 preorders for the electric version

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Fidelity Investments announced Tuesday that it will offer bitcoin as an investment option in its 401(k) plans by the middle of this year. It’s a big move given that Fidelity is the largest 401(k) plan provider in the United States, acting as custodian for 23,000 plans, which have 20.4 million

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US markets plunged on Tuesday. The Dow fell 810 points, or 2.4%, as an April sell-off spurred by fears of an economic slowdown continued following Monday’s short-lived recovery. The losses were led by mega cap tech stocks as investors await key corporate earnings reports this week. First quarter results from

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The New York Post and Michelle Gotthelf, the former editor in chief of the tabloid’s digital operation, announced in a joint statement Tuesday that they had settled the explosive lawsuit Gotthelf had filed earlier this year. Gotthelf had alleged in her lawsuit that she was wrongfully fired after she reported

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Deutsche Bank raised eyebrows earlier this month by becoming the first major bank to forecast a US recession, albeit a “mild” one. Now, it’s warning of a deeper downturn caused by the Federal Reserve’s quest to knock down stubbornly high inflation. “We will get a major recession,” Deutsche Bank economists