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Economy & Business
Fiat Chrysler profits hit by charges for diesel probe

Fiat Chrysler profits hit by charges for diesel probe

MILAN (AP) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Tuesday its third-quarter profits dropped nearly 40 percent due to a one-off charge to cover possible payments in...

Economy & Business
Gum, bottled water, pizza bagels want to be called ‘healthy’

Gum, bottled water, pizza bagels want to be called ‘healthy’

NEW YORK (AP) — Pizza bagels, chewing gum and bottled water want to play a starring new role in our diets: Foods that can be...

Economy & Business
Colombia opens probe into US coal company for militia ties

Colombia opens probe into US coal company for militia ties

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The office of Colombia’s chief prosecutor says authorities are opening an investigation into whether an Alabama-based coal company financed a paramilitary...

Economy & Business
Coke rides on sales of healthier drinks

Coke rides on sales of healthier drinks

ATLANTA (AP) — Strong sales of “premium” water and sugar-free sodas powered third-quarter earnings for Coca-Cola Co. Coke President and CEO James Quincey said enhanced...

Economy & Business
Ben & Jerry’s unveils Pecan Resist flavor ahead of midterms

Ben & Jerry’s unveils Pecan Resist flavor ahead of midterms

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is taking a stand against what it calls the Trump administration’s regressive policies by rebranding...

Economy & Business
US home price gains weaken for 5th straight month

US home price gains weaken for 5th straight month

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home price gains slowed for the fifth straight month in August as higher mortgage rates have lowered home sales. The S&P...

Economy & Business
Stocks rally on earnings a day after ending at 5-month lows

Stocks rally on earnings a day after ending at 5-month lows

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing Tuesday as investors were encouraged by solid earnings reports from several big U.S. companies. Oreo maker Mondelez...

Economy & Business
Pfizer’s 3Q profit, up due to tax cut, beats expectations

Pfizer’s 3Q profit, up due to tax cut, beats expectations

Pfizer posted a 45 percent jump in third-quarter profit, as the biggest U.S.-based drugmaker benefited from sharply lower taxes due to this year’s federal tax...

Economy & Business
iPads, Macs get new screens as Apple pushes creativity

iPads, Macs get new screens as Apple pushes creativity

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s new iPads will more closely resemble its latest iPhones as they ditch a home button and fingerprint sensor to make...

Economy & Business
GE slashes dividend, takes $22 billion charge in 3Q

GE slashes dividend, takes $22 billion charge in 3Q

General Electric slashed its quarterly dividend and announced it will restructure its power business, as the industrial conglomerate struggles with sagging profits and a spate...

Economy & Business
Markets Right Now: Stocks sink again, extending dismal month

Markets Right Now: Stocks sink again, extending dismal month

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks are closing sharply lower in another dizzying day...

Economy & Business
Take your time: EU delays tweaking Europe’s clocks

Take your time: EU delays tweaking Europe’s clocks

BRUSSELS (AP) — The time isn’t yet ripe to tweak Europe’s clocks. European transport ministers meeting in Austria decided Monday to take a little more...

Economy & Business
China’s yuan sinks to 10-year low against dollar

China’s yuan sinks to 10-year low against dollar

BEIJING (AP) — China’s yuan sank to a 10-year low against the dollar on Monday, coming close to breaking the politically sensitive level of seven...

Economy & Business
UK to start taxing big internet companies

UK to start taxing big internet companies

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief unveiled Monday a new tax on big internet companies’ revenues, insisting it is time that the global tech giants...

Economy & Business
Google to give away $25 million to fund humane AI projects

Google to give away $25 million to fund humane AI projects

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Google will give away $25 million to projects that propose ways to use the artificial intelligence of computers to help create...

Economy & Business
Mexico referendum nixes partly built $13 billion airport

Mexico referendum nixes partly built $13 billion airport

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President-elect said Monday he will respect the result of a referendum that rejected a partly built new airport for Mexico...

Economy & Business
Colorado lawsuit could ripple through US cannabis industry

Colorado lawsuit could ripple through US cannabis industry

DENVER (AP) — A federal trial in Colorado could have far-reaching effects on the United States’ budding marijuana industry if a jury sides with a...

Economy & Business
Cordillera Communications selling all 16 TV stations

Cordillera Communications selling all 16 TV stations

Minnesota-based Cordillera Communications is selling all 16 of its television stations, including nine in Montana. E.W. Scripps Co. has agreed to pay $521 million to...

Economy & Business
Lion Air crash renews concerns about Indonesia airlines

Lion Air crash renews concerns about Indonesia airlines

The deadly crash of a Lion Air jet in the Java Sea has renewed questions about the safety of Indonesian airlines soon after U.S. and...

Economy & Business
US consumer spending up inflation-adjusted 0.3 percent

US consumer spending up inflation-adjusted 0.3 percent

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer spending rose in September by a solid, inflation-adjusted 0.3 percent, led by increased spending on health care services and motor...

Economy & Business
US government broadcaster to punish workers for Soros report

US government broadcaster to punish workers for Soros report

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s international broadcasting agency says it will discipline employees responsible for a television report on philanthropist George Soros that violated...

Economy & Business
Stocks tumble again on report US plans more tariffs

Stocks tumble again on report US plans more tariffs

NEW YORK (AP) — Fear that the Trump administration will announce tariffs on all remaining imports from China helped knock U.S. stocks from a strong...

Economy & Business
What happened, what’s next after airline worker stole plane

What happened, what’s next after airline worker stole plane

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. investigators are working to find out how an airline employee stole an empty commercial airplane from the main airport serving Seattle...

Economy & Business
Fox News to White House: Bill Shine is Trump’s new image man

Fox News to White House: Bill Shine is Trump’s new image man

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — For years he dutifully carried out Roger Ailes’ orders, earning himself the nickname “the Butler” at Fox News. Now, Bill Shine...

Economy & Business
VF, following millions of consumers, will shed its denim

VF, following millions of consumers, will shed its denim

NEW YORK (AP) — The company that makes Wrangler and Lee jeans is breaking off its denim division to focus on its fast-growing outdoor and...

Economy & Business
Turkey tries to contain crisis but currency keeps falling

Turkey tries to contain crisis but currency keeps falling

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank took action Monday to free up cash for banks as the country grapples with a currency crisis sparked...

Economy & Business
Turkish turmoil knocks US and European stocks lower

Turkish turmoil knocks US and European stocks lower

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks in the U.S. and Europe skidded Friday as investors worried about the financial stability of Turkey and how it might...

Economy & Business
Tesla CEO Musk taunts short sellers amid legal scrutiny

Tesla CEO Musk taunts short sellers amid legal scrutiny

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk used Twitter late Friday to taunt investors who have bet against his company, even though his previous Twitter...

Economy & Business
Serving on corporate board while in Congress? That could end

Serving on corporate board while in Congress? That could end

WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of Rep. Chris Collins on insider trading charges is drawing new attention to the freedom members of Congress have to...

Economy & Business
US budget deficit totals $76.9 billion in July

US budget deficit totals $76.9 billion in July

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government racked up a $76.9 billion deficit in July, with increased government spending and tax cuts keeping the country on...

Economy & Business
Jury awards $289M to man who blames Roundup for cancer

Jury awards $289M to man who blames Roundup for cancer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster...

Economy & Business
Growing Spokane, Washington, sheds its sleepy city image

Growing Spokane, Washington, sheds its sleepy city image

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Ramsey and Amy Pruchnic lived in the Seattle area for five years before deciding they wanted to escape the Puget Sound...

Economy & Business
Wildfire victims among those stung by Trump’s  trade war

Wildfire victims among those stung by Trump’s trade war

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Add this to the challenges facing California wildfire victims: Tariffs. The import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are adding...

Economy & Business
Humor, social messages proliferate at a tame Super Bowl

Humor, social messages proliferate at a tame Super Bowl

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Super Bowl ads ran the gamut from tame humor to … tame messages about social causes. After a divisive...

Economy & Business
Actor Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking case with UK papers

Actor Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking case with UK papers

LONDON (AP) — British actor Hugh Grant has settled his phone-hacking damages claim against Mirror Group Newspapers. Grant was at the High Court on Monday...

Economy & Business
For Bon-Ton, founded in 19th century, an uncertain future

For Bon-Ton, founded in 19th century, an uncertain future

NEW YORK (AP) — The future of Bon-Ton Stores, saddled with debt and faltering sales, looks tenuous after the department store chain filed for bankruptcy...

Economy & Business
ECB experts: US tax law could erode Europe’s tax base

ECB experts: US tax law could erode Europe’s tax base

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Economists at the European Central Bank say that the U.S. corporate tax cut should lift the world’s largest economy in the...

Economy & Business
Trump, first lady head to Ohio for rare joint policy trip

Trump, first lady head to Ohio for rare joint policy trip

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are heading to Ohio, where the president will point to the benefits of the...

Economy & Business
Ram truck ad using MLK speech draws backlash

Ram truck ad using MLK speech draws backlash

NEW YORK (AP) — A Ram truck ad that used a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., is drawing a backlash. The ad shows people...

Economy & Business
A raucous Google-Uber fight is finally heading to trial

A raucous Google-Uber fight is finally heading to trial

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Google-bred pioneer in self-driving cars and Uber’s beleaguered ride-hailing service are colliding in a courtroom showdown revolving around allegations of...

Economy & Business
Cities and states take the lead on banning bump stocks

Cities and states take the lead on banning bump stocks

In the immediate aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, there was a fevered pitch to ban bump stocks, the device that...

Economy & Business
US services firms record strongest performance since 2005

US services firms record strongest performance since 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. services sector boomed in January, registering the best performance since 2005 and delivering more evidence of American economic strength. The...

Economy & Business
Broadcom raises Qualcomm bid to more than $121 billion

Broadcom raises Qualcomm bid to more than $121 billion

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Broadcom boosted its bid for Qualcomm to more than $121 billion in cash and stock Monday in what would be...

Economy & Business
Powell sworn in as 16th chairman of Federal Reserve

Powell sworn in as 16th chairman of Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell was sworn in Monday as the 16th chairman of the Federal Reserve in a brief ceremony in the Fed’s board...

Economy & Business
After a bad week, US stock indexes slip again, led by banks

After a bad week, US stock indexes slip again, led by banks

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. indexes slipped in early trading Monday, following global markets lower. Banks are leading the way lower after the Federal Reserve...

Economy & Business
World’s Largest Banks Admit to Massive Global Financial Crimes, But Escape Jail.. AGAIN!

World’s Largest Banks Admit to Massive Global Financial Crimes, But Escape Jail.. AGAIN!

(Democracy Now)- In an interview with Democracy Now!, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi spoke about the recent news surrounding the five major banks – Citigroup,...

Economy & Business
The Woman JPMorgan Chase Paid One of the Largest Fines in American History to Keep From Talking

The Woman JPMorgan Chase Paid One of the Largest Fines in American History to Keep From Talking

All Made Possible by Their Friends at the D-O-J

Economy & Business
Why Main Street isn’t creating jobs

Why Main Street isn’t creating jobs

(CNBC)- While a recent small business optimism index ticked up slightly, a look between the lines shows small business woes are emerging and creating a...

Economy & Business
Obamanomics: U.S. Wages Down 23% Since 2008

Obamanomics: U.S. Wages Down 23% Since 2008

(Breitbart)- U.S. jobs pay an average 23% less today than they did before the 2008 recession, according to a new report released on Monday by...

Economy & Business
Bank Of International Settlements: It’s worse now than 2007

Bank Of International Settlements: It’s worse now than 2007

(Telegraph)- The world economy is just as vulnerable to a financial crisis as it was in 2007, with the added danger that debt ratios are...

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