Average long-term US mortgage rates dip to 6.66% this week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates ticked down modestly this week after six straight weeks of…
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Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…
Continue Reading Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…
Continue Reading 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners have faced a year of battles
By LYNN BERRY and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Winning the Nobel Peace Prize often provides a boost for a grassroots activist or…
Continue Reading Fire reported at another Amazon warehouse in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — A fire broke out late Wednesday at an Amazon facility in upstate New York that’s voting in a union election next week. Amazon is…
Continue Reading Peloton to cut 500 jobs as turnaround efforts continue
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Peloton is cutting hundreds of jobs in a corporate reorganization of its stalled business as the…
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Big companies keep leaving Chicago. What’s going on?
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Tyson Foods is the latest company closing its Chicago-area offices, joining Boeing, Caterpillar and Citadel among…
Continue Reading 11 turkey farm workers charged with cruelty caught on video
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Eleven people working for a leading turkey producer have been charged with animal cruelty in Pennsylvania after…
Continue Reading What to expect from Friday’s jobs report
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business When the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its latest monthly jobs report on Friday, all eyes will be on whether…
Continue Reading US applications for jobless benefits increased last week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, the largest number in four months, but…
Continue Reading Turkey appoints new ambassador to Israel as ties warm
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Ankara has appointed a new ambassador to Israel in the latest step between the two…
Continue Reading Hot inflation slows 3Q earnings growth forecasts
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Wall Street expects the latest round of quarterly profits to show burn marks from the hottest inflation in…
Continue Reading How Elon Musk could change Twitter
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Nearly three months after Elon Musk told Twitter he wanted out of his $44 billion agreement to buy the social media…
Continue Reading To fill teacher jobs, community colleges offer new degrees
By JANELLE RETKA of The Seattle Times Amid national teacher shortages, community colleges are stepping in, launching teacher-training programs…
Continue Reading Peloton is undergoing another round of layoffs to ‘save’ the company
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Peloton is undergoing another round of layoffs — its fourth this year — with about 500 jobs being eliminated, as…
Continue Reading Markets are starting to act super strange
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Investors are tightening their neck braces as US stocks soar upwards, plummet back down and then do it all over.…
Continue Reading Sweden seizes evidence at Baltic Sea pipeline leak site
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency said Thursday that its preliminary investigation of…
Continue Reading Japan’s Toyota finds wheel, airbag fixes for recalled EVs
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota said Thursday that it has identified how to fix its 2023 model year…
Continue Reading Germans warned: Gas use is too high to avoid energy crisis
BERLIN (AP) — Germans are using too much gas now to avoid a potential energy shortage this winter. That’s the warning delivered Thursday by…
Continue Reading France fights winter shortages with new energy-saving drive
PARIS (AP) — Under the watchword “Every gesture counts,” France’s government has launched an energy-saving drive to get the country…
Continue Reading Russia strikes Ukraine housing; detains refugees at border
By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on…
Continue Reading Biden: IBM investment to help in tech competition with China
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden says a $20 billion investment by IBM in New York’s…
Continue Reading Europe hails united stand over Russia’s war in Ukraine
By LORNE COOK, KAREL JANICEK and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of 44 European countries are hailing their united stand…
Continue Reading Pilots strike cancels flights at German carrier Eurowings
BERLIN (AP) — A pilots strike at budget airline Eurowings has forced the German carrier to cancel hundreds of flights. The Lufthansa subsidiary…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka begins crucial debt restructuring talks with China
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government has started debt restructuring discussions with China, an…
Continue Reading With division at home, UK’s Truss seeks to thaw EU relations
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After an acrimonious divorce and years of bickering, Britain’s government looks like it wants to…
Continue Reading Asian stock markets fall ahead of US employment update
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Asian shares followed Wall Street lower Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data investors hope will…
Continue Reading Australian police make first arrest in Optus hack probe
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A police investigation of a cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company in…
Continue Reading Missing snow puts famed New Zealand ski areas on precipice
By NICK PERRY Associated Press TŪROA SKI AREA, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Tūroa ski area is usually a white wonderland at this time of…
Continue Reading Former Uber security chief guilty of data breach coverup
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers…
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