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The comments from Fauci come as the FDA advisory committee voted on Friday against giving third shots of Pfizer’s vaccine to the general U.S. population. U.S. News
“The buyers just keep marching into the jaws of destruction,” Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told CNBC on Friday. U.S. News
The Biden administration is facing criticism of its handling of the overall U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. U.S. News
Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari told CNBC the company expects its production backlogs to catch up by early next year after pandemic-induced supply issues. U.S. News
Musk also acknowledged that Tesla is still not manufacturing its custom-designed 4680 cells for commercial use in electric cars or energy storage systems yet. U.S. News
“The Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has reversed his stance on bitcoin, now saying it is worth zero and fails as a hedge. International: Top News And Analysis
Digitized fiat currencies could actually support the case for investors buying into bitcoin, says Greg King, founder and CEO of Osprey Funds. U.S. News
May’s job gains were “solid,” but not enough to change the direction of monetary policy, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester told CNBC. U.S. News
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Friday that the coronavirus variant first discovered in India has the potential to derail the lockdown easing currently underway in the country. International: Top News And Analysis
The pause on J&J’s Covid vaccine due to a rare blood-clotting problem did not disrupt the U.S. vaccine rollout, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday. U.S. News