China keeps cutting critical lending rates to shore up its economy
By Laura He, CNN Business China keeps slashing lending rates as authorities ramp up their efforts to stave off a sharp economic slowdown. The…
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Army Corps to spend $732M on Mississippi River lock upgrade
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps will spend $732 million to expand a congested lock and dam in Missouri.…
Continue Reading Football games send viewers to TV on cold weekend
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Viewers parked themselves in front of their televisions to watch football and stay out of the…
Continue Reading Red Cross: Hack exposes data on 515,000 vulnerable people
GENEVA (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal,…
Continue Reading Starbucks scraps vaccine requirement following Supreme Court decision
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Starbucks is no longer requiring employees to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing, following the US…
Continue Reading Texas sues Google over local radio ads for its smartphones
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ attorney general is suing Google, alleging the company asked radio DJs to record personal endorsements for…
Continue Reading United posts $646 million loss, omicron casts shadow over 1Q
CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines lost $646 million in the last three months of 2021, and the new year doesn’t look too good either. United said…
Continue Reading The 5G-airline snafu: Everything we know
By Jackie Wattles, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN The attempt to roll out amped up mobile service across the United States has been a bit of a…
Continue Reading The 5G-airlines crisis was mostly averted. Here’s what happened – and what we still don’t know
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Jackie Wattles and Pete Muntean, CNN Potentially abysmal air travel interruptions were narrowly avoided this week when wireless…
Continue Reading US, UK begin talks on lifting Trump’s steel tariffs
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to begin talks on removing former…
Continue Reading Spears case drives California bid to limit conservatorships
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Disability rights activists and advocates for Britney Spears are backing a California…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
The Associated Press Stocks continued to fall on Wall Street Wednesday as investors review the latest corporate earnings and prepare for higher…
Continue Reading What comes next in New York’s investigation of Donald Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is using a court filing to outline much of the evidence her investigators have gathered so…
Continue Reading Gilead announces massive seizure of counterfeit HIV-1 drugs
CNN by Amanda Watts, CNN The biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday a massive web of seizures across several states of…
Continue Reading Gilead announces massive seizure of counterfeit HIV-1 drugs
by Amanda Watts, CNN The biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday a massive web of seizures across several states of…
Continue Reading Ford, US Bancorp fall; Bank of America, Tegna rise
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Ford, US Bancorp fall; Bank of America, Tegna…
Continue Reading Nasdaq enters correction territory as stocks close lower
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street has had a rocky start to the year: Stocks again finished lower Wednesday and the Nasdaq…
Continue Reading Nasdaq enters correction territory as stocks close lower
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street has had a rocky start to the year: Stocks again finished lower Wednesday and the Nasdaq Composite closed…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue Reading Libya aims to maintain oil output after elections delay
By ADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The head of Libya’s national oil company has said that his country will try to keep oil…
Continue Reading UAE envoy: Yemen’s Houthis used missiles in Abu Dhabi attack
By AYA BATRAWY and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A United Arab Emirates ambassador says Yemen’s Houthi…
Continue Reading Taxing extreme wealth could lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty
Opinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives The pandemic has shone a spotlight on how inequality kills. As inequalities in income, wealth…
Continue Reading GM expands market for hydrogen fuel cells beyond vehicles
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is finding new markets for its hydrogen fuel cell systems. The automaker announced Wednesday that it will work with…
Continue Reading Unilever won’t top $68B bid for GSK consumer healthcare unit
LONDON (AP) — Unilever, the maker of Vaseline skin care products and Dove soap, says it won’t increase a 50 billion-pound ($68.2 billion) offer…
Continue Reading Florida man gets 5 years for COVID-19 relief, tax fraud
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fraudulently collecting more than $1.3 million in COVID-19 relief funds has been sentenced to five…
Continue Reading BNSF railroad tries to block 17,000 workers from striking
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF railroad wants a federal judge to prevent two of its unions from going on strike next month…
Continue Reading Small Vermont community rallies to keep post office outpost
ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont community is asking the U.S. Postal Service to renew a contract with a local store to retain an outpost where people…
Continue Reading Doing laundry is about to get more expensive
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business It’s going to cost you more to wash your clothes. Procter & Gamble said Wednesday that it was raising…
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Florida on pace for smallest orange crop in over 75 years
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida is on pace to produce the smallest crop of oranges in more than 75 years. A forecast released last week says the…
Continue Reading Construction to begin soon on new US offshore wind farm
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Developers say construction will soon begin on the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project to…
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