Lowe’s teams up with Petco to offer pet supplies, services
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Lowe’s is betting its customers want cans of dog food as well as cans of paint. The home improvement company…
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Warren Buffett is having the last laugh
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It’s been a tough start to the year for investors in big tech companies. Cathie…
Continue Reading Stock rally peters out again
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Thursday’s stock market rally didn’t last long. The major indexes gave back sharp gains from earlier in…
Continue Reading These companies decided to go fully remote — permanently
Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business As the pandemic heads into yet another year, companies are still grappling with uncertainty in the workplace. Many have…
Continue Reading Board approves fiscal plan for Puerto Rico amid bankruptcy
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Pay raises for teachers, firefighters, corrections officers and other employees have…
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Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press CHERAN, Mexico (AP) — Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the…
Continue Reading A rocket booster could crash into the moon in the next few weeks
By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A rogue rocket booster could collide with the moon in the next few weeks, according to space experts, an…
Continue Reading Judge denies access to rioter’s community service records
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a news media coalition’s request for public access to records…
Continue Reading Ruhle replaces Williams on MSNBC; ‘Morning Joe’ expanded
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephanie Ruhle is replacing Brian Williams on the weeknight MSNBC broadcast ‘The 11th Hour,’ and the show ‘Morning Joe’…
Continue Reading India, Central Asian leaders discuss aid to Afghanistan
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and five central Asian countries have decided to set up a joint working group for providing…
Continue Reading EU regulator recommends Pfizer’s COVID pill be authorized
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended that Pfizer’s coronavirus antiviral drug be authorized for use in the 27-nation…
Continue Reading Long-term US mortgage unchanged again this week at 3.55%
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were flat for a third straight week after rising about a…
Continue Reading Altria: iQOS cigarette alternative off market through 2022
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Altria said Thursday that its heat-not-burn cigarette, iQOS, probably won’t be back in U.S.…
Continue Reading New Italy president still elusive after 4th round of voting
ROME (AP) — Lawmakers and regional representatives have failed again to find consensus on a new Italian president. That’s even after the…
Continue Reading EU watchdog clears Facebook’s purchase of Kustomer startup
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have approved Facebook parent Meta’s purchase of customer service startup Kustomer, after the social…
Continue Reading In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America
By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The headline in the little newspaper said COVID-19 numbers were spiking in the farm towns of…
Continue Reading In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America
By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The headline in the little newspaper said COVID-19 numbers were spiking in the farm towns of…
Continue Reading The government has a talent problem. This bill could help change that
Opinion by Gerry Connolly for CNN Business Perspectives Our workforce is the lifeblood of the US federal government. Without individuals committed to…
Continue Reading Microsoft makes a big bet that it can fix Activision Blizzard’s troubled culture
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Microsoft’s nearly $70 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard could make it a leader in gaming. But…
Continue Reading US weekly jobless claims fall for the first time in a month
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week following three straight increases…
Continue Reading The economy boomed in Biden’s first year. His second will be harder
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US economic recovery from the depths of the Covid pandemic continued through the end of last year. But the strong…
Continue Reading ‘Significant’ risk of the US economy shrinking this quarter, BofA warns
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Matt Egan, CNN Business Bank of America slashed its first-quarter economic outlook for the United States on Friday because of…
Continue Reading McDonald’s sales haven’t been this good since Bill Clinton was president
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Higher prices and chicken sandwiches are helping boost McDonald’s sales. But earnings disappointed…
Continue Reading Forget Zoom school. For some students, class is in session in VR
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Jeremy Bailenson has studied virtual reality for decades. But it wasn’t until last year that the Stanford…
Continue Reading Report: 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly 1,500 people died of malnutrition in just part of Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region…
Continue Reading The investors who aren’t panicking
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The stock market has been jolted by indications the Federal Reserve will move to aggressively raise interest rates to…
Continue Reading This year’s Super Bowl tickets are the most expensive ever
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Put America’s most popular sporting event in its second-largest metropolitan area. Put the…
Continue Reading Bud Light’s first-ever zero-carb beer hits shelves next week
By Jordan Valinsky and John General, CNN Bud Light Next, the first zero-carb beer from Anheuser-Busch, is hitting shelves next week. The new beer…
Continue Reading 14.5M get health care under Obama law, with help from Biden
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this…
Continue Reading Ukraine crisis updates: What to know as tensions rise
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United States and NATO have made no concessions to the main Russian demands to resolve…
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