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C'est la vie: French sporting goods retailer Decathlon plans to permanently close its last two stores in the U. S., located in San Francisco and the East Bay. Effective March 15 the retailer will lay off 32 employees across both the San Francisco store at 2300 16th St. and the Emeryville store at 3938 Horton St., according to records filed with the state employment authority and made available on Wednesday.

The buyout will be spread out through the rest of this fiscal year and the next three fiscal years.

The official is no longer executive director of Metro Transit, and the organization is searching for her successor.

Pat Gelsinger has been CEO of Intel for just less than a year, but you wouldn't know it by all the changes and investments he has made in the short amount of time.

Miller’s promotion adds to Nike’s busy legal department recently, as the company has lawsuits in progress against Adidas and Lululemon.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in reversing its pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring and growth but also escalated inflation. With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses and unemployment falling steadily, the Fed also said it would phase out its monthly bond purchases, which have been intended to lower longer-term rates, in March. The Fed’s actions are sure to make a wide range of borrowing — from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and corporate credit — costlier over time.