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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The pandemic has made it very clear to everyone that life doesn’t go as planned. It’s also been a bracing reminder that we could die way sooner than expected. And that means you could inadvertently leave people you love in the lurch. Which brings us to one of the least

By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Wayne Encalarde’s utility truck and trailer were parked in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward 16 years ago when Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters ravaged the city and all but completely destroyed the neighborhood. The 68-year-old, a plumber and owner of the local Wayne Jude Encalarde plumbing and public works business, says the deadly

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Regulators are worried about all the people plugging cryptocurrencies online. That includes Kim Kardashian, beauty and fashion mogul and influencer extraordinaire. Charles Randell, chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority, called out Kardashian in a colorful speech Monday. He started out by suggesting that the internet was full of …

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist, thinks BlackRock has made a huge miscalculation on China. What’s happening: Soros called out the world’s largest asset manager in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on Monday titled “BlackRock’s China Blunder.” BlackRock recently started offering investment products to individual Chinese

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Russia’s space chief was watching as billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson blasted into space aboard vehicles they helped fund — and wishing Russian oligarchs would follow suit. “Our millionaires prefer to invest more in yachts rather than in spaceships,” Dmitry Rogozin told CNN in his first interview with Western media

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business At a time when many investors are content to follow the crowd and buy top techs like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, Cathie Wood is looking for the next big innovators in buzzy fields like robotics, fintech and space exploration. It’s a high-flying, high-risk, high-reward tier of investing. And

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s trade with the rest of the world surged to record highs last month, easing fears that a stubborn coronavirus outbreak and the global shipping crisis were stalling the economy. Exports spiked 25.6% in August from a year ago to $294.3 billion, according to customs statistics published Tuesday. Imports jumped

By Merlin Delcid, CNN Business El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency on Tuesday, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to the fragile economy. President Nayib Bukele announced late Monday that his government purchased 200 bitcoins ahead of El Salvador’s formal adoption of the currency.

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The end of Labor Day Weekend always has a “Back to School” feel. So this special edition of our media digest is a preview of the week ahead and the

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business America’s workforce is considerably older and more diverse than it was 40-some years ago. Federal labor economists recently analyzed federal labor data to see just how much the nation’s labor force has changed in recent decades, according to a Sept. 1 blog post on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business TotalEnergies is investing in oil, gas and solar energy projects worth $27 billion in Iraq, returning to the country where the French company made its first energy discovery nearly a century ago. This time, however, no new exploration is planned despite Iraq’s vast oil reserves, reflecting a shift by some