Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, said Sunday that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 will inevitably make its way to the U.S.

The latest Mastercard SpendingPulse reports show retail sales up 30% compared to last year.

The discovery of a new Covid variant that could be resistant to current vaccines, will not hurt sales this holiday weekend, said experts.

'It has always been Tesla’s view that all subsidies should be eliminated,' Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.

'To us [Bitcoin], it is still by and large a risk asset,' Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird, told Bloomberg.

'We view [the move] as a clear buying opportunity, given our bullish view of the tech sector set up into 2022,' said Wedbush's Dan Ives.

The VIX is calculated from prices of S&P 500 index options with near-term expiration dates, offering a 30-day projection of volatility.

The discovery of a new Covid variant that could be resistant to current vaccines, sent global markets plummeting Friday.

The U.S. has more than 2 million farms and the diversity of crops ranges from algae in grown in Hawaii to zucchini in Michigan.

With both online and in-person shopping heavily underway, buyers are expected to spend between $8.5 and $9.6 million on Black Friday this year.