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The latest on developments in financial markets. 4:00 p.m. Stocks are closing slightly lower on Wall Street as the market
Read more »(AP) — U.S. construction fell in April by the largest amount in a year, reflecting weakness in homebuilding, non-residential construction
Read more »(AP) — Exactly eight years after the Great Recession ended, the U.S. job market has settled into a sweet spot
Read more »Boarding passes could someday become quaint relics for air travelers. JetBlue Airways plans to test facial-recognition check-in for a few
Read more »(AP) — Cyberspace faces an approaching risk of “permanent war” between states and criminal or extremist organizations because of increasingly
Read more »(AP) — Jury selection starts Wednesday in a more than $1 billion defamation case over ABC news reports on a
Read more »(AP) — The Federal Reserve has fined Germany’s largest bank $41 million for failure to maintain controls against money laundering
Read more »(AP) — A luxury Hermes handbag shattered the world auction record in Hong Kong on Wednesday, fetching an eye-popping $380,000,
Read more »(AP) — Taxi drivers across Spain set off firecrackers and threw objects at police Tuesday as they went on strike
Read more »Amazon joins the $1,000 club
(AP) — Amazon, the internet goliath that revolutionized the way much of the world shops for books, toilet paper and
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