Shell CEO to step down as oil giant looks to climate goals
LONDON (AP) — Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge as oil and natural gas companies are under…
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Asian stocks follow Wall St lower amid inflation pressure
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Friday after higher-than-expected U.S.…
Continue Reading Louisiana power project stuck in abortion debate gets funded
By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New…
Continue Reading US moved online, worked more from home as pandemic raged
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled,…
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3 ways China and Russia are forging much closer economic ties
By Laura He, CNN Business Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will meet face-to-face this week for the first time…
Continue Reading Tentative labor deal averts threat of nationwide rail strike
By JOSH FUNK, JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday…
Continue Reading Commuters dodge headaches as freight-rail strike averted
By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden says a deal has been reached to avert a looming freight rail strike…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What to know about ‘buy now, pay later’
By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you shop online for clothes or furniture, sneakers or concert tickets, you’ve seen the option…
Continue Reading As ‘buy now, pay later’ plans grow, so do delinquencies
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have grown fond of “buy now, pay later” services, but the “pay later” part is…
Continue Reading Florida, Texas escalate flights, buses to move migrants
By RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Republican governors are escalating their partisan tactic of sending migrants to…
Continue Reading Japan logs record Aug trade deficit on weak yen, costly oil
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported it posted a record trade deficit in August as costs for imports of oil, gas and other commodities soared. The 2.82…
Continue Reading Samsung sets goal to attain 100% clean energy by 2050
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics says it’s shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely…
Continue Reading Woman with toy gun grabs trapped savings from Beirut bank
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol broke into a…
Continue Reading California, tribal leaders announce new tourism initiative
By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is launching an initiative to bring more tourism to…
Continue Reading Ford: Gas cars are a growth business for us
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business When Ford chief executive Jim Farley split the company’s passenger vehicle business into…
Continue Reading Ford’s new Mustang sticks with pure gasoline
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Ford unveiled an all-new version of the two-door Mustang coupe at an event in Detroit Wednesday night. It has a…
Continue Reading A rail strike would do serious damage — and that’s exactly the point
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Unless we get a breakthrough soon in deadlocked negotiations, Friday will mark the beginning of the first national…
Continue Reading A rail strike would do serious damage — and that’s exactly the point
CNN By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Unless we get a breakthrough soon in deadlocked negotiations, Friday will mark the beginning of the first…
Continue Reading Safety board issues report on Kentucky pipeline explosion
JUNCTION CITY, Ky. (AP) — A 2019 pipeline explosion that resulted in one death and the destruction of five homes in Kentucky happened when the…
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New Solar-powered microchip scanner in El Paso helps reunite pets, owners
EL PASO, Texas – The City of El Paso’s Animal Services unveils the first-of-its-kind scanner to help lost pets be reunited with their family. The new…
Continue Reading TikTok won’t commit to stopping US data flows to China
By Brian Fung, CNN Business TikTok repeatedly declined to commit to US lawmakers on Wednesday that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US…
Continue Reading Patagonia’s founder transfers ownership into two entities to help fight the climate crisis
CNN By Kate Trafecante, CNN Patagonia’s founder is transferring ownership of the company after nearly 50 years into two entities that will help…
Continue Reading Patagonia’s founder transfers ownership into two entities to help fight the climate crisis
By Kate Trafecante, CNN Patagonia’s founder is transferring ownership of the company after nearly 50 years into two entities that will help…
Continue Reading Talks to avert crippling US rail strike continue overnight
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business Talks aimed at averting a freight railroad strike that could cripple US supply chains continued…
Continue Reading Money approved for states to build car-charging network
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration has approved plans submitted by 34 states and…
Continue Reading Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson rise; Nucor, Union Pacific fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson rise; Nucor, Union Pacific…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday 9/14/2022
The Associated Press Stocks closed modestly higher on Wall Street after a day of veering between gains and losses. The tentative trading came a day…
Continue Reading Here’s how the freight rail strike could affect you
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business The US economy can keep running without freight trains — but not for long. That is why the…
Continue Reading California AG sues Amazon over allegedly anticompetitive pricing contracts
By Brian Fung, CNN Business California’s attorney general sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the company has forced third-party sellers to…
Continue Reading Report: Tesla driver lost scholarship before fiery crash
Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida…
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