American Airlines flight attendants, Nvidia's stock surge, Wells Fargo workers fake it: Business news roundup

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Wells Fargo found that some of its employees were pretending to work — and sent them packing.

More than a dozen employees in the bank’s wealth and investment management divisions were discharged last month “after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work,” Bloomberg reported citing disclosures filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

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After showing a near production ready concept in 2021, BMW debuted the XM to gasps in 2022. It looked like nothing else on the road. Just over two years on the market and something about the XM seems to keep buyers away, so much so that BMW is throwing some big discounts on the hood to try and move some of these performance plug-in hybrids.

Johnson & Johnson will pay $700 million to settle a case with 42 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Image: Yves Herman (Reuters)

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle a multistate case regarding the marketing of its baby powder products that contained talc and are believed to have harmed consumers.

SpaceX’s Starship launches its fourth flight test from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. Photo: SpaceX/Handout (Reuters)

Starship, a fully reusable megarocket developed by SpaceX, has completed just four live tests and broken the Earth’s atmosphere. But founder Elon Musk is shooting far above that — past the Moon, past Mars, and onto Uranus.