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Big turkeys are back for an IRL Thanksgiving

By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Thanksgiving 2021 may feel a lot more like a normal holiday than last year’s — many Americans have been vaccinated, and restrictions have eased across the country. And that means bigger turkeys are back, too. Grocery chains and retail analysts are expecting people to have bigger gatherings

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Storage containers are scarce

Storage containers are scarce, so toymakers are focused on small, squishy toys for the holidays

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Jay Foreman, the chief executive of toymaker Basic Fun, was in a bind over the summer. The end-of-year holiday shopping rush was quickly approaching, but Foreman was struggling to book shipping containers to ferry the company’s toys, which include Tonka trucks, Care Bears and Cutetitos. And when he did find

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Bitcoin prices continued their October surge on Friday

Bitcoin tops $60,000 as investors bet on ETF approval

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Bitcoin prices continued their October surge on Friday, topping $60,000 on hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission will soon approve a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund. Cryptocurrency investors were excited by a tweet from the verified account of the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy late Thursday

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The reason it’s so easy for wealthy Americans to hide their money — and how to stop it

Opinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives The revelations from the Pandora Papers have rocked the world. They showed that wealthy celebrities, political figures, billionaires and heads of state around the globe are sheltering assets in offshore tax havens, including here in the United States. As with the Panama Papers that were released five

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The port in the Mercedes EQS's front fender isn't for charging. (That's in the back.) It's for refilling the windshield washer fluid since the hood doesn't open.

The glitzy electric Mercedes EQS could be the most important Mercedes in decades

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The all-electric Mercedes EQS may well be one of the most important cars in company’s history. And that’s saying a lot, because that’s a whole bunch of history. Mercedes-Benz and its direct ancestor companies have been making internal combustion-powered automobiles longer than any company on Earth. Karl Benz applied for

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday called for an investigation of a journalist for finding

Missouri governor threatens legal action against journalist who found flaw that exposed Social Security numbers

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday called for an investigation of a journalist for finding, helping fix and reporting about a vulnerability in a government website that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers in the state. Parson said he had notified the Cole County prosecutor and that the Missouri State

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