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About 1,400 striking Kellogg workers have ratified a new contract, their union said Tuesday, ending a strike that began in early October and affected four of the company’s U.S.

About 200,000 hospitality and leisure businesses will be eligible for a grant of up to £6,000 per site.

Across the capital bookshops, gyms, pubs and restaurants have voluntarily closed their doors, either as a precaution against the virus or because too many staff members are sick to operate.

The promise of more aid comes as a fresh wave of anxiety over the coronavirus and the economy washes over the region.

8 as a response to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, dinner and party cancellations have been rolling in and foot traffic has disappeared in some areas.

Customers thinned out and several staff members got Covid, she said.

Half a mile away in Soho, the Coach and Horses pub was similarly contending with fewer customers and sick staff.

The hospitality industry, which lost out on the holiday bump in sales last year, was reviving but had still not bounced back to prepandemic levels.

The company has temporarily closed 20 pubs, a spokeswoman said.

Plenty of uncertainty remains, including from the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the still-cloudy outlook for President Biden’s social spending plan and, from the Federal Reserve’s indication, the possibility of multiple interest increases next year.

Analysts expect the S&P 500’s profits to jump nearly 9 percent, or more than twice as fast as the broader economy.

Stock market collapses are extremely rare without recessions, and there’s no sign that one is in store for 2022.

Maybe? Stocks may not fall drastically, but they may not continue to surge either.

Nikola is settling the case, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, nearly five months after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Trevor Milton, the company’s founder and former chief executive, who has pleaded not guilty.

The S.E.C., in a civil order resolving the investigation, found that Mr. Milton embarked on a campaign on Twitter and in news releases to pump up the price of Nikola’s shares with a series of misleading statements.

Ms. Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty, faces 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

She founded Theranos in 2003, dropped out of Stanford University the next year to focus on the company and raised $945 million from investors.

Ms. Holmes also sold her entrepreneurial vision and styled herself as a Steve Jobs-like founder, down to wearing a uniform of black turtlenecks.

She blamed senior lab employees for her company’s problems, argued that her own actions were misunderstood and said she believed the claims she had made about Theranos’s technology.

“Jagged Little Pill,” a rock musical fueled by the songs of Alanis Morissette, will close on Broadway, becoming the first big show felled, in part, by the resurgent pandemic.

“The drastic turn of events this week with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has, once again, changed everything,” the producers said in a statement.

At least 132 employees at SpaceX’s Southern California headquarters have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent months, according to information on outbreaks of the virus posted on a Los Angeles County website.

The cases were reported as a wave of infections spread through the country, driven mainly by the Omicron virus variant, and as the private space company founded and led by Elon Musk is conducting a rapid series of rocket launches at sites in California and Florida.

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