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Business travel spending will surge next year to over $1 trillion, but it will take another two years for the industry to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new industry forecast said....Read More

Online retail giant Amazon said on Wednesday that it will stop accepting British-issued Visa credit card payments in two months, due to a dispute over high transaction fees it says Visa charges....Read More

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite drew within 1% of their record highs as U.S. markets rose behind strong October consumer data....Read More

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has announced a lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta over accusations the company misled the public about the negative effects its products have on children....Read More

Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool signed an agreement Tuesday that allows an antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 to be more widely distributed in low-income countries....Read More

Americans spent more at businesses and online during the month of October than most experts predicted — giving the economy a 1.7% boost, and indicating that higher inflation isn’t deterring some shoppers....Read More

Health consortium Kaiser Permanente reached an agreement Monday with thousands of pharmacists in Northern California to avoid a labor walkout, in just one of several disputes between the company and health unions....Read More

Burger King’s parent company, Restaurant Brands International, has agreed to a deal to buy Firehouse Subs for about $1 billion, company officials announced Monday....Read More

President Joe Biden will hold a high-stakes virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, the first such meeting of the leaders since Biden took office 10 months ago....Read More

Businessman Glen de Vries, who flew to space with William Shatner on a Blue Origin rocket in October, died in a plane crash Thursday in New Jersey, according to reports....Read More