US home sales rebound slightly in February U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather. More
Dollar rises above 100 yen for 1st time in 4 years The dollar has risen above 100 yen for the first time in more than four years as currency traders persist in selling the Japanese currency in reaction to Tokyo's aggressive credit-easing moves. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
Retailers report modest gains for April Americans spent briskly during the early spring months in the latest sign that they’re encouraged by the economic recovery. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans’ shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions. More
US home building is surging, but job growth isn't The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help - if he could hire enough qualified people. "There is a shortage of manpower," says Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. More
US Applications For Jobless Claims Fall To Lowest Level In 9 Weeks The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 20 fell by 5,000 to 207,000 from 212,000 the previous week. That’s the fewest since mid-February. The ... 04/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
U.S. weekly jobless claims drop to lowest level since mid-February Initial jobless claims fell by 5,000 to 207,000 in the week ended April 20, the Labor Department said Thursday. 04/25/2024 - 1:54 am | View Link
US Applications for Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level in 9 Weeks US Applications for Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level in 9 Weeks Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest ... 04/24/2024 - 9:42 pm | View Link
U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims Initial jobless claims unexpectedly decline to 216,000 By Investing.com - Sep 07, 2023 14 Investing.com -- The number of Americans filing for new unemployment insurance unexpectedly fell last week ... 04/24/2024 - 9:31 pm | View Link
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Many are asking this question as the U.S. experiences a flood... This Week in Markets: GDP Revision Up, Jobless Claims Fall, Reddit Slides Further By Davit Kirakosyan - Mar 29, 2024 2 The final ... 04/24/2024 - 9:31 pm | View Link
The future for Paramount remains uncertain as it considers multiple merger offers. Here’s how each of those possibilities could play out for the entertainment giant.
Paramount Global is used to producing gripping dramas, but it likely didn’t expect to end up starring in one. Yet, the road to a potential Paramount merger has taken several twists and turns.
At stake is the growth of the still nascent market for voluntary carbon offsets.
Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits has now found such offsets are largely ineffective, a confidential preliminary draft reviewed by Reuters shows.
The famous designer brought her lively ‘supergraphics’ to the built environment. She died Tuesday at 95 years old.
“I wanted to mix life and design and art,” said the iconic graphic designer Barbara “Bobbie” Stauffacher Solomon in a 2018 short documentary film about her work. And for most of her life, that’s exactly what Stauffacher Solomon did.
Many lawsuits have challenged unequal insurance benefits for LGBTQ+ people, including for fertility treatments.
New York City was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday claiming it discriminates against gay male city employees by only covering the costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) for women and heterosexual couples.
Altogether, projects that had been canceled by the end of 2023 were expected to total more than 12 gigawatts of power, representing more than half the capacity in the project pipeline.
America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry’s future in the U.
Forecasters are already warning that this year’s Atlantic storm season could rival 2021, due in large part to La Niña.
One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.