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By Brian Lowry, CNN Business Spider-Man has triumphed against tough box-office odds and the Omicron variant. As theaters and Hollywood get ready to turn the calendar toward 2022, they’re awaiting their next superhero. After 20 months of fits and starts at cinemas, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has become the first movie to gross more than

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business DoorDash is asking its employees, all the way up the ranks to its CEO, to again make a delivery at least once a month. Some are not cheering the news. The on-demand food delivery company in the New Year will reinstate a program, called WeDash, that it had paused during

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business A Delta Air Lines flight originating in Seattle and heading to Shanghai last week turned around midair because of a change in cleaning rules at the China airport, the airline said. If it had landed in Shanghai, Delta said the new rules would have caused substantial delays. “The new cleaning

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Following decades of talk about failing infrastructure, the country finally took a major step toward repairing it in 2021, transportation experts say. The year will likely be remembered in part for the unprecedented investment in infrastructure, including highways, bridges, airports, tunnels and trains. President Biden’s signing of the $1.2 trillion

By Matt Egan Goldman Sachs told employees Monday that all individuals coming into the bank’s US offices will be required to show proof of a Covid vaccination booster shot. The new booster policy takes effect February 1 and applies to both employees and visitors. The move comes as a spike in Covid-19 cases complicates the

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business The US housing market has had a white hot year. Home sales are on track to reach the highest level in 15 years, with an estimated 6 million homes sold in 2021. But whether you benefited from this surge depended a lot on if you were selling a home or

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Over the Christmas weekend, flying was a miserable experience for millions of travelers, as airlines canceled or delayed thousands of flights. The problems continued Monday, with nearly 900 flights canceled within, into or out of the United States, according to FlightAware. More than 1,600 flights are delayed. The troubles come

By Chris Liakos and Sonnet Swire, CNN Business More than 2,800 flights have been canceled Monday as Covid cases surge across the globe. Of the more than 2,800 canceled flights, around 1,000 were within, into or out of the United States, according to FlightAware. Almost 11,000 flights are delayed. Globally, airlines canceled more than 6,000

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Finding the next Tesla among electric vehicle stocks is proving to be difficult. A number of upstart electric vehicle makers’ stock prices soared in recent years, as investors looked for the next company to shake up the car market. But all have struggled recently — as has Tesla itself. Lucid,

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The great American pickup truck has been basically one thing for quite awhile now: a big — and always getting bigger — gas- or diesel-powered lane-hogging beast with a big open bed. Trucks like the Ford F-150 and GMC Sierra have gotten more comfortable with added luxury options like heated