A man wears clothing by Levis Strauss & Co. during the company’s initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, the United States, on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies that are making headlines in mid-day trading. Levi Strauss – The…

Chipotle Mexican Grill is encouraged by the strength of its digital sales even with its dining rooms open due to coronavirus-related closures, CFO Jack Hartung told CNBC on Friday. “The pandemic has really put some turbochargers behind our digital business, of course, but as we start to see Covid behind us – and we still…

Line workers work on the chassis of full-size General Motors pickups at the Flint Assembly facility in Flint, Michigan on June 12, 2019. JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP / Getty Images General Motors this weekend is cutting overtime production at two U.S. assembly plants that are making highly profitable full-size pickups due to the ongoing shortage…

After a boom year for the tech industry, investors poured money into grocery shipping companies, online brokers and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in early 2021, creating a record quarter for US venture finance. Venture-backed firms raised $ 64 billion in the first three months of the year. This came out of an analysis by Ernst &…

Wealthy countries have received the vast majority of the world’s supply of Covid-19 vaccine doses, while poor countries have received less than 1%, the World Health Organization said at a news conference on Friday. Of the 700 million vaccine doses distributed worldwide, “over 87% went to high-income or high- and middle-income countries, while low-income countries…

The Anthem, a popular live music venue, is displaying a message of support on their marquee on April 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images It was literally a long, dark year at the Independent in San Francisco. The music and comedy shows that filled the venue’s stage and boosted the local…

LONDON — The House of Windsor has lost its patriarch. Prince Philip, the Greece-born royal who as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving consort to a British sovereign, died Friday. He was 99. “His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle,” the royal family announced. “Further announcements will be…

Small business closings in the US and around the world are creeping back to their pandemic peaks, according to a report by Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable. “It continues to be a very painful time for small businesses,” John Stanford, co-executive director of the Small Business Roundtable, told CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange on Thursday. The…

One in five Americans is fully vaccinated, according to the latest data posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website Thursday afternoon. A third of the population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The US is currently administering an average of 7 million vaccine doses per day over seven…

On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, a health care worker will take care of a Covid 19 patient in the intensive care unit of the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany would face tough lockdown measures until the end of March if the authorities do not contain a rapidly spreading variant…