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California's unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame
California's unemployment rate is now the highest in the country. The state's unemployment rate was 5.3% in Februa…
Workers at Fort Worth Molson Coors brewery go on strike
About 420 workers at one of the biggest breweries in the United States, Molson Coors’ Fort Worth facility, went on strike starting on Saturday over pay and oth…
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Stock market today: Wall Street hangs near records ahead of inflation report
The S&P 500 slipped 4.77 points, or 0.1%, to 5,021.84 after closing Friday above the 5,000 level for the first time. Most of the stocks in the index rose, but losses for Microsoft and other tech companies weighed o…
Record cocoa prices heading into Valentine's Day proves to be a headache for sweets king Hershey
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Recession risks are fading, business economists say, but political tensions pose threat to economy
Just a quarter of business economists and analysts expect the United States to fall into recession this year. And any downturn would likely result from an exte…
Adult dancers in Washington state want a strippers' bill of rights
The bills are the culmination of six years of advocacy work by Strippers Are Workers, a dancer-led organization in Washington, in response to wide regulation g…
Stock market today: Wall Street falls from its all-time high as cuts to rates look further off
U.S. stocks are falling Monday as Wall Street pushes out forecasts for when interest rates will start easing from the strictest levels in two decades.
Job market is humming, but layoffs are still happening in a shifting economic environment
The U.S. economy is humming and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being added every month. In a stunning burst of hiring to start the year, the nation ad…
McDonald's sales growth slows with mideast war hurting results
McDonald's Corp.'s sales missed investor expectations in the fourth quarter as growth decelerated, hurt in part by the war in the Middle East.
Storage unit users are getting younger as memories — and junk —accumulate
Travis Willoughby is wrestling with what to do with the belongings he and his brother, Davis, have accumulated that fill a 10-by-10 storage unit along Dallas' …
Small farmers hit by extreme weather could get assistance from proposed insurance program
Since catastrophic flooding hit Vermont in July and waterlogged crops, some farmers are trying to figure out how to get to the next season.
Liquefied Natural Gas: What to know about LNG and Biden's decision to delay gas export proposals
The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and…
Wall Street closes its 12th winning week in the last 13 with a mixed finish
Wall Street closed its latest winning week with a mixed finish, as drops for technology stocks dragged on the market.
China doubles down on moves to mend its economy and fend off a financial crisis
China's leaders have launched a barrage of new policies to prop up languishing financial markets and rekindle growth in the world's second-largest economy.
Stock market today: Wall Street ticks higher and adds to its record high
Most stocks rose on Wall Street Monday to build on its all-time high reached last week.