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Uncle Sam is in search for a pot of gold that could ease the pain of trillion-dollar deficits. And some believe Wall Street might just have the…

JPMorgan Chase and Google launched a program Tuesday to help banks owned and led by people of color increase their lending capabilities. The new…

Goodyear has agreed to buy rival Cooper for $2.8 billion. The deal will give America’s largest tire producer a much bigger footprint around the…

Hillary Clinton is working on a book with Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny, set in the aftermath of US political chaos. The book, titled…

HSBC is pushing even harder into Asia as the bank seeks to shore up its business in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also bringing…

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Federal regulators are looking closely at the Texas energy market after natural gas prices rocketed during last week’s deep freeze. And…

Oatly, the popular oat milk maker backed by Oprah, is making plans to go public. The Swedish company said it filed confidential IPO forms with the…

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the long-serving Saudi oil minister who masterminded an OPEC embargo that plunged western economies into recession in 1973, has…

Victoria Richardson turns away from her favorite show, “Chicago Med,” every time a plotline revolves around the coronavirus pandemic. The…

The pandemic has slammed Macy’s and other department stores. But signs of a recovery are beginning to emerge. Macy’s said Tuesday that it…

Bitcoin’s roller coaster ride continues. The top cryptocurrency surged to a new all-time high above $58,000 on Sunday but fell to just above…

When Michelle Gass took over as Kohl’s CEO in 2018, she tried getting creative to bring more shoppers into stores. The company had just struck…

Jay-Z and luxury goods giant LVMH have a reason to break out the bubbly. LVMH, which owns Dom Pérignon and Moët & Chandon, has taken a 50%…

Companies are now being forced to answer a question that was until recently mostly hypothetical. Should they require their employees to get a…

Dominion Voting Systems, the election technology company that has been the focus of debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud, is suing…

A sprawling lobby and bar with only a handful of people. Confused guests asking where everybody went. Elegant, but empty hallways. These are the…

Airlines in the United States, South Korea and Japan have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after one of the jets suffered engine failure…

The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation has asked Jeep to stop using the tribe’s name on its SUVs. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is the…

Uncle Sam is in search for a pot of gold that could ease the pain of trillion-dollar deficits. And some believe Wall Street might just have the…

Boeing has spent years trying to assure customers, regulators and the public that its planes are safe. That job may have just gotten harder.…

Peloton is releasing a lower-priced treadmill to become more than a purveyor of high-end stationary-bikes. The public company, which reported revenue…

The boom in bitcoin prices is giving a huge lift to a California bank that accepts cryptocurrency deposits and doles out bitcoin-backed loans. Shares…

The US economy is still at the mercy of the pandemic. But for policy makers to help the recovery along, we must first get the virus under control,…

Microsoft is joining forces with publishers in Europe to call for an Australia-style system that would force tech platforms such as Google and…

Electricity and gas provider Just Energy warned that the financial impact of the Texas winter storms could force it out of business. Just Energy said…

Nearly a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, many Americans remain stuck trying to work, attend school and socialize from home. For tens of millions of…

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Kamala Harris isn’t the only Black woman making history in 2021. The January 20 swearing-in of the nation’s first woman, Black and…

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Bill Gates said deaths during Texas’ winter freeze were preventable, caused by the…

Rio Tinto’s former CEO got a huge payout last year despite being forced to resign over the company’s destruction of a sacred Indigenous…

Dominion Voting Systems, the election technology company that has been the focus of debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud, is suing…

Disney+ is warning viewers that some episodes of “The Muppet Show” feature “negative depictions” and “mistreatment of…

Surging iPhone sales in the final three months of 2020 pushed Apple ahead of Samsung as the world’s biggest smartphone maker, according to new…

Publix joined a growing list of US grocers and retailers offering incentives to workers who get the Covid-19 vaccine. The popular Southern…

The White House supports studying the merits of a financial transaction tax — a move favored by progressives and despised by Wall Street — in the…

The majority of power outages in Texas over the past week came from losses in coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, according to the state’s…

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Bill Gates said deaths during Texas’ winter freeze were preventable, caused by the…

Fast food wants to be a force in fast fashion. McDonald’s latest non-edible creation is a hoodie, timed to coincide with the launch of its new…

“Saturday Night Live” felt like a lot of people needed to apologize this week, so on Saturday’s episode that’s what happened.…

For nearly a year, newsrooms have mostly sat empty because of the pandemic. Staffers have been working from home and not seeing many of their…

Hours after Google tried to turn the page on a months-long controversy over the abrupt departure of one leader of its Ethical AI team, the other…

“Icy Park” is finally here. Beyoncé’s sports apparel brand Ivy Park x Adidas released its third collection of merchandise online…

The trillion-dollar market value club has a new member: bitcoin. The total number of bitcoins trading are now collectively worth more than $1…

America’s CEOs are the most confident they have been in 17 years, as company leaders expect fewer layoffs and further improvements in the…

The blackouts that shut down most of Texas for much of this week could be coming to other parts of the country in the future. The power outages…

All of Dole Packaged Foods’ US-based employees will make at least $15 an hour within a few months, the company says. “The $15 an hour…

Uber is reviewing how it treats thousands of drivers in the United Kingdom after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling that they should be classified as…

How Facebook, Uber and Robinhood run their businesses is under threat around the world, a warning sign for investors who have been all too willing to…

As winter storms sweep the US, you may be using your snow blower more than ever. And if it’s made by Toro, it’s time to check your model…

Citigroup lost a court battle Tuesday to claw back $504 million it mistakenly wired to Revlon’s lenders in August. But don’t get your…

The market for new stocks continues to sizzle — with no signs of a slowdown for initial public offerings or special purpose acquisition company…

Facebook’s decision to block people from sharing news in Australia has been rebuked by lawmakers around the world, raising the specter of a…

What is Facebook without news? People and publishers in Australia are now finding out. Facebook has barred Australians from finding or sharing news…

Millions of American jobs have been lost due to the pandemic – and a lot of those positions likely aren’t coming back. People are losing…

An Australian employee of China’s state broadcaster CGTN has been arrested on suspicion of “illegally supplying state secrets…

Just days after Maryland became the first state in the country to impose a tax on digital advertising targeting Big Tech, lobbying groups…

Facebook allegedly gave its advertisers “inflated and misleading” metrics on how many people their ads could reach for years, according…

Google is making changes to the leadership of its responsible artificial intelligence efforts months after the contentious departure of prominent…

Kroger will close two stores in Seattle over the city’s $4-an-hour hazard pay requirement for grocery workers, an escalation of the grocery…

Congressional hearings often involve a lot of grandstanding. But as the House Financial Services Committee prepares to grill major players in the…

Some politicians are worried that countries will borrow too much to prop up the economy over the coming year. Christine Lagarde doesn’t share…

McDonald’s will tie executive pay to diversity goals and aim to hit gender parity in management by the end of 2030 as the company tries to…

Another 861,000 workers filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week, according to seasonally adjusted data released Thursday from…

A group of businesses and nonprofit organizations are banding together to speed up and strengthen their companies’ response to the pandemic.…

Congresswoman Maxine Waters plans to thoroughly investigate the GameStop trading frenzy by holding multiple hearings on the matter. Waters, the…

Upon hearing about Rush Limbaugh’s death on Wednesday, many fans said he was irreplaceable. For the time being, his distributor is not going to…

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Grocery store workers in the United States have been stocking shelves, handling customers and keeping stores tidy in challenging and sometimes…

South Australian winemaker Jarrad White spent almost a decade building his business in China. Then, in a matter of months, it all fell apart. It had…

One of the largest consulting companies in the world is making a major commitment — to moms. Accenture will hire 150 mothers for positions at…

Another 861,000 workers filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week, according to seasonally adjusted data released Thursday from…

Maersk says it will launch the world’s first carbon neutral cargo ship in 2023, as efforts to clean up one of the planet’s worst…

Fire and emergency services. Domestic violence charities. State health agencies. Facebook’s sudden and dramatic decision to block people from…

People in Australia can no longer find news on Facebook. Facebook said Wednesday that people and publishers in Australia cannot share and view news…

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People in Australia can no longer find news on Facebook. Facebook said Wednesday that people and publishers in Australia cannot share and view news…

The winter storms and Arctic deep freeze that have blanketed the West, Midwest and South are still threatening lives and spreading misery,…