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Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group will require indoor diners and drinkers at its restaurants to show they’ve been vaccinated against Covid.

Corporations are reporting record profitability, showing that while input costs are rising, inflation is being passed on to customers through higher prices.

More places are easing travel restrictions for vaccinated travelers, with some set to require inoculations from all travelers by the summer.

“I think you’re going to take a white-hot fire and throw a 5-gallon gas can on top of it,” billionaire Ken Langone told CNBC on Wednesday

The Fed decided to hold rates steady and said the U.S. economy is recovering. Chair Jerome Powell made remarks at a press conference.

The second quarter grew at what is expected to be the strongest pace of the year, but it would have been even more rapid, if not for supply-chain issues.

The Fed’s near-zero rate policy can help some Americans get a leg up, especially if they can refinance high-interest debt or take out a low-interest loan.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t have enough resources to properly track Covid-19 “breakthrough cases,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.

If the WHO endorsed a booster shot, it would likely only be for select groups of recipients, like the elderly or other vulnerable people.

Applications to refinance a home loan jumped 9% last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Two of the states hit hardest last week, Mississippi and Louisiana and, have some of the nation’s worst vaccination rates and climbing Covid hospitalizations.

Dr. Peter Hotez explains why the CDC’s masking guidelines are “absolutely” necessary to battle the delta variant and surging cases.

Average hourly wages grew 3.6% in June relative to last year, the most in more than a decade. But has inflation mitigated that increase?

Experts say desks could also be at least three feet apart and teachers could be assigned smaller class sizes to reduce risk of infection.

The earned income tax credit is more generous for workers in 2021. Now there are calls to make that expansion permanent.

Home prices were 16.6% higher than in May 2020, the highest reading in the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller report’s 30-plus years.

Three-time Olympian Dominique Dawes delivers her insights into the women’s gymnastic team’s second-place qualifying performance behind Russia.

Moderna confirmed to CNBC on Monday it plans to expand the size of its clinical trial testing its Covid-19 vaccine in kids ages 5 to 11.

State employees working in a hospital setting who don’t require proof of vaccination will be required to take a Covid test twice a week.

BioNTech said it plans to develop an mRNA-based vaccine to prevent malaria, a life-threatening disease that impacts millions of people worldwide each year.