Warren Buffett’s firm ups stakes in Japanese trading houses
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company has increased its investments in five major Japanese…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company has increased its investments in five major Japanese…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Boeing is edging out European rival Airbus in the latest figures on orders and deliveries for new airline planes. Boeing said…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue says it’s adding another European destination this summer. The New York-based airline said Tuesday that it will start…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will spend $1.34 billion ($1.8 billion Canadian) to convert an SUV factory in suburban Toronto so it can…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry says it has signed contracts worth $2.8 billion with the country’s top…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Tupperware Brands, which experienced a resurgence during the pandemic, is now pursuing investors to keep it afloat and…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The outlook for the world economy this year has dimmed in the face of…
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Picture May 17, 2001. In the final seconds of the season seven finale of “Friends,” Jennifer…
Continue ReadingBY MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer President Joe Biden’s administration wants stronger measures to test the safety of artificial…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Moderna shares slipped Tuesday morning after the COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has signed new agreements to ensure its continued access to Russian energy. The…
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s top defense body has approved buying an unspecified number of American-made F-35 fighter jets, as the…
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A risk management company says pirates have boarded a Chinese-run oil tanker in West…
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. — CarMax: Fiscal Q4 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Investing in the stock market isn’t the only thing that may bring a financial return: Studies have found that seeking…
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — When Nat West, owner of cider-making company Reverend Nat’s Hard…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s parliament has opened a special session to scrutinize the state-imposed takeover of…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s second-largest bank is pursuing a potential merger with its smaller rival, potentially creating a…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, as markets watched for key inflation data likely to…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER, MATTHEW DALY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City for a deposition Thursday in New York…
Continue ReadingBY DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press The California Civil Rights Department has voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Three years after the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Atlantic City’s casinos are…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An electric bicycle powered by a lithium ion battery is being blamed for a fatal fire in New York City that killed two children.…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will propose strict new automobile pollution limits…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Apple Inc., down $2.63 to $162.03. Global PC shipments slid in…
Continue ReadingCHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — Authorities are searching for three suspects in a shooting at a Delaware mall that wounded three people and prompted an…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO — PriceSmart: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A battle over a $1 billion transmission line that won regulatory approvals only to be…
Continue ReadingKENDLETON, Texas (AP) — Kansas City Southern Railroad says three of its tank cars derailed but remained upright in a Southeast Texas rail yard. A…
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press During California’s prolonged, wet winter, beekeeper Gene Brandi said he had to spend twice as much money on a…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Hostess Brands President and CEO Andy Callahan knows that his company __ the maker of Twinkies, HoHos and other…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain is bracing for a four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded health care system. One official said…
Continue ReadingThe Labor Department delivers its monthly index of inflation at the consumer level on Wednesday, followed by its report on wholesale prices Thursday.…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The new governor of Japan’s central bank has signaled, once again, that he plans no drastic…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Scam artists often target older adults because they hold significant levels of wealth, but family and friends can…
Continue ReadingLAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — Greenbrier: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s central bank says that Pakistanis living abroad sent $2.5 billion home in March,…
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after a mixed session on Wall Street dominated by speculation…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say electric car maker Tesla Inc. plans to build a factory in Shanghai to produce power-storage devices for sale…
Continue ReadingCHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — A Delaware mall shooting left three people injured and forced shoppers to evacuate as police investigate. Delaware State…
Continue ReadingSANTA ROSA, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico wildlife managers say they will have fewer rainbow trout to stock in lakes and rivers around the state this…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Gadiel Galvez learned that the owner of his mobile home park south of…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British public health system is warning that a planned four-day strike by tens of thousands of doctors could lead to the…
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says her center-right Reform…
Continue ReadingBy VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine (AP) — Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the…
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay…
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin sentenced a Minnesota man on Friday to two years in prison for aiming a laser at a Delta Air…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top sanctions officials from the U.S. Treasury Department are set to make a series of…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Medicaid program will continue to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion each year. That’s despite…
Continue ReadingOLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition…
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani will be heading to prison later this month. That’s…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. road safety regulators have sent a team to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that may have…
Continue ReadingBy HAVEN DALEY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Regulators are worried that faucet leaks in Boeing 787 jets could pose a safety hazard by water seeping into the…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla cut prices on its entire U.S. electric vehicle model lineup for the third time this year in an…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them rear-ended a municipal…
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime…
Continue ReadingBy R.J. RICO Associated Press Over the past few months, many streaming companies have started eliminating some of their own shows from their library.…
Continue ReadingBy R.J. RICO Associated Press Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. For a performer, it’s a painful,…
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Police in Cambodia say 19 Japanese men detained on suspicion of taking part in organized phone and online scams will be…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A group of fish farmers wants to be the first to bring offshore aquaculture to the…
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet More than half of older taxpayers (57%) are worried they’ll have to pay more taxes this year because of the 5.9%…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yields rose in the U.S. bond market Friday following a highly anticipated report on the U.S. job…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials say they want federal disaster relief for the state’s…
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A lawsuit over a salad has been tossed. Sweetgreen said Thursday it will change the name of one of its salads in…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is changing a half-century-old land-use law to make room for semiconductor development…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday…
Continue ReadingWINNIPEG, Manitoba — Medicure: Q4 Earnings…
Continue ReadingWESTWOOD, Mass. — Chase: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Costco Wholesale Corp., down $11.15 to $485.98. Investors…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks were mixed on Wall Street Monday in their first trading after a report heightened speculation the Federal Reserve may tap…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO — WD-40: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — The CEO of Southwest Airlines is seeing his compensation nearly double after getting promoted to the top job. A Southwest spokesman…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts gambling regulators have denied a request to allow legal betting on this year’s Boston Marathon, citing concerns by…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose $1.79 to $81.53 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for June delivery rose $1.43 to…
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world. They…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The ruble has fallen against the U.S. dollar to the value it held just before Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than a year ago.…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS released details Thursday on how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Details of how tech executive Bob Lee came to be fatally stabbed in…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The first comprehensive poll to measure public attitudes on foundations…
Continue ReadingBy MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that documents from a child pornography investigation into billionaire…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate dipped for the fourth straight week, a good sign for potential home buyers…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has unveiled what it calls the largest community solar effort in U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is ordering an unproven drug intended to prevent premature…
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Boston city councilor has proposed barring city liquor stores from selling the single-serve bottles…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund chief warns the world economy is expected to…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Italian regulators say the company behind ChatGPT will propose measures to resolve data privacy…
Continue Reading