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Small Business Administration-backed financing rose 7% to $56B in fiscal 2024
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer The Small Business Administration said it backed $56 billion in financing to small businesses and...
Average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises for 6th straight week
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the sixth straight week, returning to its...
Slightly more Americans apply for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at low levels
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless aid ticked up last week but layoffs remain at historically low...
About 1,100 workers at Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant face layoffs as company tries to reduce inventory
DETROIT (AP) — About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, are facing layoffs early next year as the company takes...
Eurobank reports higher nine-month earnings
Newsroom - Eurobank, Greece’s largest lender by market value, on Thursday reported higher profit for the first nine months of the year,...
Amazon workers in Alabama will have third labor union vote after judge finds illegal influence
By SAFIYAH RIDDLE The Associated Press/Report For America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Amazon workers in Alabama will decide for the third time...
Caroline Ellison begins 2-year sentence for her role in Bankman-Fried’s FTX fraud
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried 's fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, began her...
Larnaca and Paphos boost air capacity
Newsroom- The deal to hand over Larnaca and Paphos airports to Hermes Airports Ltd is nearly sealed, as the company moves toward securing...
Restaurants, other services still in grip of high inflation even as overall rate slows
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While prices for most goods have been falling throughout the year, inflation for a...
Stocks and bitcoin jump after Trump’s victory. So do worries about inflation as Dow surges 1,500
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk's Tesla, banks and bitcoin all stormed higher Wednesday...
Canada orders TikTok’s Canadian business to be dissolved but won’t block app
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Wednesday it won't block access to the popular video-sharing app TikTok...
Beyond Meat reverses revenue slide by raising prices on its plant-based products
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat reversed a sales slide in the third quarter, growing revenue for the first time since...
Tesla shares soar more than 14% as Trump win is seen boosting Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Tesla soared Wednesday as investors bet that the electric vehicle maker...
Trump Media gains post-election, even as Truth Social parent reports $19 million quarterly loss
NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Donald Trump's social networking site Truth Social lost $19.2 million in the last quarter, according...
Hit by scandal, Japan’s top automaker Toyota reports lower profits
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota's July-September profit sank to less than half of what it was in the same period...
Nintendo Chief insists the Switch momentum will keep going, even after its successor
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo's chief said Wednesday that Switch console sales were...
Strike at Boeing was part of a new era of labor activism long in decline at US work places
Aircraft assembly workers at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere voted to end a seven-week strike overnight. Leaders of the...
USDA bans school lunch fees for low-income families
By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for...
A TV as big as a bed? With the holidays approaching, stores stock more supersize sets
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For some television viewers, size apparently does matter. Forget the 65-inch TVs...