Wall Street ends winning week with mixed close on jobs data
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a winning week with a sputtering finish…
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Inflation, expenses rise sharply as priorities: AP-NORC poll
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Concerns about inflation and personal finances have surged while COVID has evaporated as a…
Continue Reading A robust June jobs report clouds outlook for US economy
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong hiring report for June has assuaged fears that the U.S. economy might be on…
Continue Reading Lights out on Nittosha matchbooks prompts nostalgia in Japan
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press HIMEJI, Japan (AP) — Nittosha, a small Japanese manufacturer, is stopping the production of matchbooks. The…
Continue Reading ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ manga creator Kazuki Takahashi found dead at sea
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” manga comic and trading card game, has died,…
Continue Reading G-20 diplomats fail on unity over Ukraine, war’s impact
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing…
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El Paso International Airport receives $5 million for improvements to terminals, energy efficiency, and accessibility
EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso International Airport (ELP) received five million dollars from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation…
Continue Reading Spirit Airlines again postpones vote on Frontier merger
By The Associated Press Spirit Airlines said Thursday it was again postponing a shareholder vote on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines to…
Continue Reading Sysco accuses 4 largest beef processors of price fixing
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The nation’s largest food distributor has joined the other businesses accusing the four…
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Retailers scale back hiring as worry about a slowdown grows
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — After going on a frenzied hiring spree for a year and a half to…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Thursday 7/7/2022
The Associated Press Stocks rallied again on Wall Street Thursday, and the S&P 500 is closing out a fourth straight gain. The benchmark S&P…
Continue Reading Michigan panel wants details on Great Lakes oil tunnel plan
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan regulatory panel wants more information on Enbridge Energy’s plan…
Continue Reading GameStop, Occidental rise; USANA, Helen of Troy fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: GameStop, Occidental rise; USANA, Helen of Troy…
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Black and Hispanic Americans are getting hit harder by inflation. Here’s why
By Tami Luhby, CNN Many Americans are struggling to cope with higher prices for food, gas, housing and other essentials. But inflation has taken an…
Continue Reading Former Polish officials claimed as spyware hacking victims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A rights watchdog says former officials in Poland have been identified among the victims of attempted phone hacking with the…
Continue Reading The rise and fall of Theranos: A timeline
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Four years after the top two Theranos executives, Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani,…
Continue Reading Canadian bank expects short-lived recession in 2023
TORONTO (AP) — A report by the Royal Bank of Canada says the country is headed towards a recession in 2023, but it will be short-lived and not as…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose $4.20 to $102.73 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for September delivery rose…
Continue Reading Former Theranos exec Ramesh Balwani convicted of fraud
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Reporter SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani…
Continue Reading Arizona OKs biggest US school voucher plan, faces challenge
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher…
Continue Reading France unveils measures to boost household purchasing power
PARIS (AP) — The French government has unveiled a 20 billion-euro ($20.3 billion) package of measures meant to help struggling households cope with…
Continue Reading Opinion: 4 ways governments can encourage businesses to meaningfully lower their carbon emissions
Opinion by Henry Fernandez for CNN Business Perspectives If the world hopes to limit the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius —…
Continue Reading IRS asks Treasury watchdog to probe Comey, McCabe tax audits
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately…
Continue Reading Former Theranos COO is guilty of federal fraud
By Sara Ashley O’Brien and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former COO of failed blood testing startup Theranos and…
Continue Reading American Airlines is tripling pilots’ pay after a scheduling glitch left thousands of flights without pilots
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business American Airlines has agreed to pay its pilots triple their normal rate after a computer scheduling glitch left…
Continue Reading Oil minister says Iraq to act to annul Kurdish oil deals
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s oil minister says the government will take steps to enforce a recent court decision to…
Continue Reading Finland to boost security at Russia border with amended law
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Parliament has passed amended legislation on border security that allows for the…
Continue Reading Pringles wants a spider named after it
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Pringles and spiders are probably two things you don’t associate with each other — until now. The…
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FDA temporarily lifts ban on Juul products after an appeals court blocked the ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily lifted the ban on selling and distributing Juul products they issued last month…
Continue Reading Twitter says it removes 1 million spam accounts a day
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing…
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