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US employers scaled back hiring in April but still added 175,000 jobs in the face of higher rates
The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April but still added a decent 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to slow the robust U.S. job market Read More
Business News
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Stock market today: Wall Street surges as key report shows pullback in hiring
Wall Street opened sharply higher, erasing its losses for the week, after the government reported a cooldown in hiring last month
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Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly
The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly
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Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news
Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset
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Economic News
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US employers scaled back hiring in April but still added 175,000 jobs in the face of higher rates
The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April but still added a decent 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to slow the robust U.S. job market
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Stock market today: Wall Street surges as key report shows pullback in hiring
Wall Street opened sharply higher, erasing its losses for the week, after the government reported a cooldown in hiring last month
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E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it
The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022
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Money News
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Iran commutes a tycoon's death sentence to 20 years in prison
Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that a tycoon's death sentence has been commuted to 20 years in prison after he returned around $2.1 billion in assets from illegally selling oil abroad
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A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They're among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak
Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about water
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Long lines form and frustration grows as Cuba runs short of cash
Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM
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