On average, wages have risen faster than prices since the pandemic, and lower-paid workers have seen the steepest gains despite facing the highest cost burdens.

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Delta Air Lines is the country’s most profitable airline.

A company responsible for producing ice cream products for several popular brands, including Hershey’s, Jeni’s and Friendly’s, has issued a recall because some of its products may be contaminated with Listeria.

Elon Musk’s Tesla is recalling its new Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail.

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Starbucks launched a drink at stores nationwide called Iced Energy, which has up to 205 milligrams of caffeine — about the same amount as six cans of Coke.

A federal bankruptcy court trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ estate is asking a judge to temporarily block families and other creditors from seizing assets related to his media company, as he readies “an orderly wind-down process” and sale.

Paramount Global is hiking the price of its flagship streaming service as the company looks to turn around its business.

The city of Liuzhou is in one of China’s poorest provinces. But as part of Beijing’s “Made In China 2025” industrial strategy, it is now home to EV car plants for five major automakers, after putting investment and incentives into electric vehicles and by pushing local industry to expand production and infrastructure. CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports from Liuzhou on the city’s meteoric rise.