A multinational tobacco company issued a response on Thursday after Brazil's attorney general filed a lawsuit seeking to recover costs by the public health care system in treating smoking-related illnesses.The suit filed Tuesday against Philip ...
Homebuyers in Salt Lake City, Atlanta and other big U.S. metropolitan areas are seeing a pickup in the number of homes for sale, especially in the most affordable segment of the market.In Atlanta, for example, ...
A general strike called by Nicaragua's opposition to demand the release of political prisoners is having mixed effects.Small businesses, some supermarkets and private schools were closed in the capital on Thursday. But pharmacies and gas ...
Maine's marijuana enthusiasts used a public hearing on Thursday to implore the state to protect the small businesses and growers they think should make up the backbone of the state's budding cannabis industry.The Maine Office ...
Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to ...
Shares of Tesla, suffering one of the worst stretches in company history, rebounded Thursday after CEO Elon Musk told employees that orders are up.The gyrations Thursday were indicators of a volatile day for the shares, ...
U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell slightly this week, marking a fourth straight week of declines to lure prospective purchasers in the spring homebuying season.Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the 30-year, fixed-rate ...
Sales of new U.S. homes sank 6.9% in April, driven by a decline in the sale of homes worth less than $300,000 that are generally bought by middle class and first-time buyers.The Commerce Department said ...
The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):9:35 a.m.Stocks are falling at the open on Wall Street as investors worry about an apparent stalemate in trade talks between the U.S. and China.A spokesman ...
The CEO of Deutsche Bank says he is ready to make "tough cuts" as he aims to strengthen the struggling bank's profitability and raise a "disappointing" share price. Christian Sewing made the statement Thursday in front ...
Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, appeared in a Japanese courtroom Thursday for a hearing ahead of his trial on accusations of financial misconduct.It was the first of a series of hearings to iron out logistics ...
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