Purdue Pharma, US states agree to new opioid settlement
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid…
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Liquor stores and supermarkets ditch Russian vodka. Importers say boycotts won’t punish Putin
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Russian-made vodka brands face intense backlash, with calls for boycotts spreading this week to about a dozen US…
Continue Reading Rebel gunmen kill 8 technicians in Indonesia’s restive Papua
By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities and Papua rebels say separatists killed eight technicians…
Continue Reading How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the global economy in a week
By Charles Riley, CNN Business A week of war in Ukraine has rocked the global economy, as quick-fire Western sanctions isolated Russia, collapsed its…
Continue Reading Conflict in Ukraine pushes mortgage rates lower
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped send mortgage rates lower last week. This is the second week in a row rates…
Continue Reading Long-term US mortgage rates fall this week to 3.76%
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week and remain at historically low levels, just…
Continue Reading Sri Lankan ministers sacked for criticizing economic policy
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has dismissed two more Cabinet ministers after they publicly…
Continue Reading Economists expect a strong jobs report Friday. What if they’re wrong again?
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Forecasting the pace of the recovery has been tough, and many economists have got their predictions very wrong over…
Continue Reading Twitter expands Birdwatch, its crowdsourced fact check pilot
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checking project it started as a small and…
Continue Reading Wheat, corn prices surge amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Consumers facing higher prices for products made with corn and wheat could be in for more pain as global…
Continue Reading EU clears Moderna shot for young kids, Pfizer boosters
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said it has authorized Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine for children aged six to 11, in addition to…
Continue Reading Best Buy reports Q4 sales miss hurt by supply chain clogs
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy reported a shortfall in sales for the holiday quarter as the nation’s…
Continue Reading Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits last week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week reflecting a low level of layoffs…
Continue Reading Why many businesses are getting tougher on Russia than sanctions require
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Governments aren’t alone in turning the screws on the Russian economy. Dozens of major multinational companies…
Continue Reading Banks scramble to figure out how much they’ll lose if Russia’s economy implodes
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Russia’s economy is under serious pressure from tough new Western sanctions. That’s forcing financial…
Continue Reading Ikea and H&M close up shop in Russia
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Two major retailers, Ikea and H&M, are temporarily pausing operations in Russia and Belarus because of the…
Continue Reading Tube strike brings 2nd day of travel chaos to Londoners
LONDON (AP) — Londoners are facing travel chaos after around 10,000 transport workers walked off their jobs for the second day this week, leaving…
Continue Reading Russian energy: Europe scrambles to reduce its dependency
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe is scrambling to reduce its natural gas dependence on Russia, and it…
Continue Reading Made green upgrades in 2021? Don’t miss these tax credits
By SABRINA PARYS of NerdWallet Many Americans incorporate green practices into their everyday lives, such as recycling, limiting meat consumption and…
Continue Reading Iraq’s Kurdish region rejects ruling imperiling oil sector
By SALAR SALIM and SAMYA KULLAB BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region has rejected a ruling by the Supreme Court in Baghdad that…
Continue Reading France seizes superyacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch
By Xiaofei Xu and Anaëlle Jonah, CNN France has seized a yacht owned by Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the French finance ministry said in a…
Continue Reading Turkey’s inflation hits 54%, deepening cost-of-living woes
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s annual inflation rate has further accelerated in February, marking the biggest jump since 2002 and deepening the…
Continue Reading UN refugee agency: 1 million flee Ukraine in under a week
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ refugee agency says 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s…
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Over 1 million Americans are seeking treatment for substance use disorder—here’s how it breaks down by state
Zinnia Health identified the number of patients seeking treatment for substance use disorder in every state and Washington…
Continue Reading Russia’s war spurs corporate exodus, exposes business risks
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown business plans into disarray and forced a growing number…
Continue Reading Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Through the Cold War and the decades since, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would…
Continue Reading Biden plan would tackle chronic gaps in mental health care
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has a new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment.…
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El Paso County Commissioners consider building an Ascarate Amphitheater
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Commissioners Court received an analysis from a consulting company on the possibility of building an amphitheater at…
Continue Reading Asian shares slide as Russia shells Ukraine nuclear plant
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after another bumpy day on Wall Street, as investors remain…
Continue Reading Crypto ‘superpower?’ India’s young investors prefer bitcoin to gold and ‘boring’ stocks
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Indian businesswoman Swati Daga first bought bitcoin in 2017, when the cryptocurrency was trading well under $3,000.…
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