BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A giant passenger jet converted to fight wildfires but grounded by U.S. officials during much of this year’s fire season could be aloft much more next year. The U.S. Government Accountability Office on...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:55 a.m. Stocks are sinking Thursday with technology and industrial companies taking the sharpest losses. EBay slid 3.8 percent and Microsoft...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are sinking Thursday as technology companies and most other parts of the market take sharp losses. Industrial companies are also trading lower but media companies are rising after Twenty-First Century...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled its confirmation hearing for Jerome Powell’s nomination to be chairman of the Federal Reserve for Nov. 28. Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, says in a...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — You may see more of Amazon inside Whole Foods soon: The online retailer, which has been already been selling its voice-activated Echos at Whole Foods, will start to sell Kindles, Fire tablets and other Amazon...
Read MoreSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The disaster wrought by Hurricane Maria has set off an anguished debate across Puerto Rico, where friends, family and co-workers are arguing fiercely over the morality of leaving the blacked-out...
Read MoreStroll your local mall and you may spot some empty storefronts where mannequins once stood draped in the latest fashions — possible casualties of what some have dubbed the “retail apocalypse.” Not everyone agrees...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Corporate profits keep chugging along. Companies have lined up in recent weeks to tell investors that they earned more during the summer than Wall Street had forecast, and the big numbers offer some reassurance...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s sales fell as it had a hard time pulling shoppers through its doors and Kohl’s reported a drop in quarterly profit Thursday, underscoring just how challenging the holiday shopping season will...
Read MoreDonald Trump warned that the stock market was a “big, fat, ugly bubble” just weeks before he was elected. A year later, Wall Street remains on a milestone-shattering run that the president has been eager to tout and...
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