NEW YORK (AP) — New kinds of installment plans are offering options to shoppers who may remember layaway as something their parents or grandparents used. The payment businesses, many of them startups, are working with companies...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Bill Clinton is a now a million-selling novelist. “The President is Missing,” a thriller co-written with James Patterson, has more than 1 million sales in North America alone. The book’s...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slightly lower Wednesday morning after a four-day winning streak brought the S&P 500 index to a six-month high. Energy companies are slipping along with oil prices. Wall Street is mainly...
Read MoreCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio had authority to calculate a giant online charter school’s funding using student participation data rather than only enrollment, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in the latest blow to the...
Read MoreDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil giant Saudi Aramco says it will buy out the other 50-percent stake in a joint chemical venture in the Netherlands in a deal valued at 1.5 billion euros, or $1.7 billion. Aramco made the...
Read MoreLAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A mysterious economic development project code-named “Project Rocket” is advancing in Atlanta’s suburbs. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the identity of the company...
Read MoreWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Environmentalists and beekeepers in Poland have staged a protest against the government’s authorization of a class of pesticides that the European Union says poses a serious risk to bees....
Read MoreBERLIN (AP) — The German government plans to tighten rules on foreign investments in some companies to lower the threshold at which it can consider blocking such plans. The move comes amid increasing concern about Chinese...
Read MoreOvernight Markets and NewsSep E-mini S&Ps (ESU18 +0.03%) this morning are up slightly as they climb +0.03% and European stocks are up +0.13%. Stock gains were limited on heightened China/U.S. trade tensions after the U.S....
Read MoreLONDON (AP) — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his “Infowars” show, as many other social media platforms have done, saying he did...
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