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Stocks sail into 2021 on wave of optimism for vaccine, stimulus
Wall Street closes volatile 2020 that had market falling from record high into a bear market at fastest clip ever.
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Kate Gibson is a Reporter for CBS MoneyWatch in New York, where she covers business and consumer finance. She previously worked for CNBC and MarketWatch and has written for national news outlets, including Barron's, the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune.
Wall Street closes volatile 2020 that had market falling from record high into a bear market at fastest clip ever.
Food and Drug Administration's list of disinfecting products that consumers should avoid grows ever longer.
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Company offering full refunds to customers as developer works to fix glitches in highly anticipated video game.
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Consumers with credit card debt are willing to pile on even more during the holidays — that's a mistake, one expert says.
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Consumer products company ships a million packages of disinfecting wipes to retailers every day — it's not enough.
"Your heart is being ripped out," one nursing home administrator says as the coronavirus continues to cut down seniors.
Former NFL player's portion of sales will help fund his social activism on behalf of Black and Brown Americans.
Lawmaker decries IPO as example of rich getting richer "on the backs and bicycles of the working and immigrant poor."
As countries around the world look to inoculate citizens against COVID-19, bogus theories are in ample supply.