One Putin move and behold: West’s unity tightens overnight
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved in days what remained out of the grasp of the European…
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Target boosts its starting pay for some jobs to $24 an hour
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Target announced Monday that it is raising its starting wage for workers in some positions to up to $24. The…
Continue Reading TD Bank bids $13B for First Horizon in southeastern US push
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Toronto-Dominion Bank is buying regional bank First Horizon in a $13.4 billion all-cash deal that will help…
Continue Reading Estée Lauder fires a senior executive for offensive Instagram post
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Estée Lauder has fired John Demsey, a senior executive at the makeup company, for an offensive Instagram post on…
Continue Reading Inflation will be worse than feared this year, Goldman Sachs predicts
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Red-hot inflation in the United States may not cool off this year as much as many hoped, Goldman Sachs cautioned in a new…
Continue Reading Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa to start seeking doctor help
By TOM MURPHY and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press If there is no doctor in the house, Amazon’s Alexa will soon be able to summon one.…
Continue Reading Cherokee on a smartphone: Part of a drive to save a language
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won’t be enough to safeguard the…
Continue Reading Meta says it’s shut down a pro-Russian disinformation network, warns of a social media hacking operation
By Brian Fung, CNN Facebook’s parent Meta said Monday it has caught dozens of fake, pro-Russian accounts, groups and pages across its platforms…
Continue Reading Russia-Ukraine War: What to know as Russians advance on Kyiv
By The Associated Press The Russian military assault on Ukraine went into its fifth day. A Ukrainian delegation held talks with Russian officials at…
Continue Reading The war in Ukraine has made Russian assets toxic
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business In less than a week, Russian assets have become practically untouchable for Western investors, who see no reason to…
Continue Reading Two Russian oligarchs call for an end to Putin’s war
By Charles Riley, CNN Business Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have broken ranks with the Kremlin and called for an end to…
Continue Reading Switzerland ditches neutrality to sanction Russia and Putin
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Laura He, CNN Business Switzerland, a major hub for storing wealth that is popular with Russian oligarchs, is breaking with its…
Continue Reading Target seeks to entice workers with pay of up to $24 an hour
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where…
Continue Reading AOL founder on how pandemic is changing spread of tech jobs
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — AOL founder Steve Case started to build the online services company nearly 40…
Continue Reading With sanctions, Russian Sberbank faces ‘failure’ in Europe
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Sberbank and the Russian bank’s subsidiaries in southeastern Europe are facing…
Continue Reading Liz Weston: Why you (and I) should name a ‘trusted contact’
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet If you’re young and healthy, adding a “trusted contact” to your financial accounts probably sounds like a far-off…
Continue Reading What is SWIFT and how is it being used against Russia?
CNN By Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has pledged to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT, a messaging service that connects financial…
Continue Reading What is SWIFT and how is it being used against Russia?
By Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has pledged to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT, a messaging service that connects financial institutions…
Continue Reading 520,000+ refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia waged war
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BEREGSURANY, Hungary (AP) — The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union has…
Continue Reading Toyota’s Japan production halted over suspected cyberattack
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan because of a…
Continue Reading Hong Kong considers lockdown as daily infections top 34,000
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has reported more than 34,000 new coronavirus infections on Monday, a record, as authorities assess the possibilities of…
Continue Reading Russia tries to stop Western companies fleeing the country
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Mark Thompson and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Business Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to stem the flow of Western businesses…
Continue Reading Russia faces financial meltdown as sanctions slam its economy
By Mark Thompson, Anna Chernova and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Business Russia was scrambling to prevent financial meltdown Monday as its economy was slammed…
Continue Reading Travelers to New Zealand will no longer need to isolate
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is ending a requirement that incoming travelers isolate themselves. The…
Continue Reading Google follows YouTube in cutting off ad revenue to Russian state media
CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Business Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the…
Continue Reading Google follows YouTube in cutting off ad revenue to Russian state media
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech…
Continue Reading Ruble plummets as sanctions bite, sending Russians to banks
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, DAVID McHUGH and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ordinary Russians are facing the prospect of higher prices…
Continue Reading S. Korea drops proof of vaccine, test to aid virus response
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will no longer require people to show proof of vaccination or negative…
Continue Reading Justices wrestle with EPA power to curb carbon emissions
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is wrestling with the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb…
Continue Reading This Week: Beige book, Kroger earns, jobs report
The Associated Press The Federal Reserve issues a report on business conditions across the U.S. on Wednesday. Supermarket operator Kroger Co. reports…
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