“If your job doesn’t REQUIRE you to be in the workplace so as to do it, please work from elsewhere,” the network’s president, Jeff Zucker, wrote to workers, citing a surge of Covid instances around the nation and inside the teams at CNN. CNN is closing its U.S. offices to all staff who are able to work remotely, based on an inside memo despatched to employees on Saturday evening Business News. The cancellation of the occasion, which had been deliberate for Jan. 17-21, is among the biggest disruptions brought on by the model new wave of coronavirus cases, and upends plans for the many world leaders and firms that had deliberate to attend. Several Broadway reveals were canceled and the Metropolitan Opera would require booster shots.

• Markets sank on Monday, extending final week’s losses, as investors took within the newest grim forecasts concerning the sudden surge in the Omicron variant and after an enormous setback in President Biden’s efforts to pass a comprehensive domestic policy invoice.
• The Met’s new rule mandating boosters for workers and audience members, which takes impact on Jan. 17, makes it the primary major performing arts institution to introduce such a measure.
• “I do not know if most people within the country even know what get together is within the Senate majority,” she mentioned, including there is a lack of aggressive oversight.
• Investors bid up stock in Ford Motor and General Motors this year as these corporations moved to make electrical vehicles a big part of their product strains.
• With its three main store manufacturers – Shoprite, Checkers and Usave – all posting double-digit gross sales growth.
• The Treasury Department has freed up funds from COVID-era applications to assist nationwide housing projects.