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Here’s what you need to know:VideotranscriptBacktranscriptRobinhood C.E.O. Faces Scrutiny From House LawmakersVlad Tenev, the chief executive of Robinhood, apologized for temporarily limiting trading of GameStop after Jan. 28, but said his…

Here’s what you need to know:Retail sales surged 5.3 percent in January, far higher than analysts and economists expected, providing a needed jolt to an economy that showed signs of weakening at the end of last year.The large jump in sales,…

Here’s what you need to know:A major winter storm hit a large part of the United States on Monday, with heavy snow and cold temperatures in Texas.Credit...Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated PressFord Motor closed a plant near Kansas City, Mo.,…

Here’s what you need to know:Newcastle, in northern England, in December. Britain’s services sector, which has been shut down for much of the past year because of lockdowns, declined by 8.9 percent.Credit...Mary Turner for The New York…

Folgendes müssen Sie wissen:Ein geschlossenes Restaurant am Grand Central Market in Los Angeles. Arbeitnehmer in der Freizeit- und Gastgewerbebranche waren während der Pandemie besonders stark vom Verlust von Arbeitsplätzen…

Here’s what you need to know:A Bitcoin A.T.M. in New York. Bitcoin continued to rise, fueled by Tesla’s announcement that it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of the digital currency.Credit...Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesBitcoin continued…

Here’s what you need to know:Amid the so-called meme stock frenzy, it is perhaps fitting that a cryptocurrency based on a meme has been swept up in the mania.Dogecoin, a digital currency created as a joke, is now the world’s 10th largest…

Here’s what you need to know: Job growth is stalling Cumulative change in all jobs since before the pandemic By Ella…

Here’s what you need to know:Waiting for food donations in Pflugerville, Texas. Despite the rollout of coronavirus vaccines and a second federal relief package, applications for unemployment insurance remain high.Credit...Ilana…

Here’s what you need to know:One in three small businesses surveyed by the Fed said that without more government help, they would be unlikely to survive until a recovery was in place.Credit...Brittany Greeson for The New York TimesAlmost…