Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery fell $3.50 to $85.61 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for December delivery fell…
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Officials: 25 dead, many trapped in Turkish coal mine blast
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 25 people, local officials announced, while rescuers…
Continue Reading Fed’s Bostic acknowledges trades broke rules, fixes records
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic has acknowledged that many of his…
Continue Reading Development banks pass climate goal, urged to help poor more
BERLIN (AP) — The European Investment Bank says the world’s top development banks provided more than $80 billion last year to help countries…
Continue Reading Regulators approve U.S. Bank’s $8B purchase of Union Bank
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Key financial regulators having approved U.S. Bank’s $8 billion acquisition of Japanese financial…
Continue Reading Bank CEOs increasingly turning pessimistic on economy
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The outlook of the U.S. economy from Wall Street’s biggest banks is getting gloomier and…
Continue Reading Correction: Russia-Ukraine War-Satellites story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published October 14, 2022, about a request from SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the Defense Department take over…
Continue Reading TotalEnergies denies claim it made fuel for Russian forces
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French and a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization have filed a complaint for alleged…
Continue Reading EU official: East Med gas can wean bloc off Russian energy
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s energy commissioner says natural gas from undersea deposits…
Continue Reading Germany hopes to get key raw materials from Mongolia
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities…
Continue Reading Adidas confirms Moroccan art inspired Algerian soccer jersey
By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The sports apparel company Adidas says it has resolved a dispute with Morocco over the…
Continue Reading Utility begins loading fuel at new Georgia nuclear plant
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Workers have begun loading radioactive fuel into a new nuclear reactor in Georgia. The announcement…
Continue Reading Europol: Spanish police crack Europe´s biggest ‘narco bank’
MADRID (AP) — European Union police agency Europol says Spanish police have dismantled an organized crime group believed to have been running…
Continue Reading Retail sales flat in September as inflation takes a bite
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising…
Continue Reading Dolly Parton donation strategy: ‘I just give from my heart’
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social…
Continue Reading Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy celebrates 20th anniversary
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night,…
Continue Reading JPMorgan profits fall; bank stores cash for coming downturn
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s third quarter profits fell by 17% from a year earlier, as the bank set…
Continue Reading Wells Fargo 3Q revenue boosted by higher interest rates
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo easily beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue forecasts as higher interest rates…
Continue Reading Kroger seeks to create grocery giant in $20B Albertsons bid
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Two of the nation’s largest grocers have agreed to merge in a deal that would help them better compete with…
Continue Reading Beyond Meat exec departs amid job cuts, slowing sales
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Beyond Meat executive charged with biting a man’s nose during a fight last month has left the…
Continue Reading Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies
By ALEXANDER TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel…
Continue Reading As the causes of US inflation grow, so do the dangers
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — What keeps driving inflation so high? The answer, it seems, is nearly everything.…
Continue Reading UnitedHealth ups expectations for the year after strong Q3
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer UnitedHealth trumped third-quarter expectations and hiked its 2022 forecast again as one of the largest U.S. health…
Continue Reading Fighting food poisoning: Sweeping poultry changes proposed
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken…
Continue Reading Biden pushing lower prescription drug costs in midterm press
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press IRVINE, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s efforts to lower prescription…
Continue Reading ‘No waiting’: Turkey, Russia to act on Putin’s gas hub offer
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Russia have instructed their…
Continue Reading UK’s Truss drops tax cuts, axes Treasury chief amid turmoil
By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked her Treasury chief and reversed…
Continue Reading London’s Battersea Power Station opens after huge revamp
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former power station on the bank of the River Thames that was left derelict for decades has opened…
Continue Reading Meet the judge who tamed the Musk-Twitter trial
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk had barely begun speaking during a recent hearing when the…
Continue Reading Stocks fall broadly on Wall Street as inflation worries grow
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers More worries about inflation helped spur a broad slide for stocks Friday that left most of the…
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