AP National Business

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota has crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has reported that it returned to profitability after two consecutive quarters of…

The Associated Press Stocks ended mixed on Wall Street as weakness in several tech companies offset gains in other parts of the market. Facebook’s…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an international agreement that compels the United States and…

By The Associated Press On Oct. 4, Elon Musk reversed himself and offered to honor his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion — a deal he…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Caterpillar Inc., up $15.18 to $212.14. The construction…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A bipartisan group of attorneys general is asking Albertsons to delay a $4 billion payout to its shareholders…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced another independent journalist to three years in prison. It’s the second prison…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s caretaker government has approved the purchase of a second batch of eight new F-16 fighter jets needed to bring…

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jury has convicted a father and son for attacking a Pokemon Go rival in a dispute that ended with all three men in a…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint accusing Amazon CEO Andy Jassy of…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — All summer long, Aleen Hudson kept looking for a new minivan or SUV for her growing passenger shuttle…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press It has been a month since Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September.…

BERLIN (AP) — The operator of the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline says a ship that it chartered has arrived at the site of last month’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk is telling Twitter advertisers he is buying the platform to “help humanity” and doesn’t…

By MATT OTT and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates topped 7% for the first time in more than…

PARIS (AP) — In a show of France’s military prowess, President Emmanuel Macron has visited a Caesar cannon firing range and missile testing…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Hunting down your enemies on the bustling streets of Amsterdam, along the U.S.-Mexico border or in a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Altria has announced a new partnership with Japan Tobacco to bring a heat-not-burn cigarette…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surging oil prices charged energy stocks through 2022 and could keep supporting the sector…

By BARBARA SURK and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s TotalEnergies has reported third-quarter net income of $6.6 billion…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Higher prices and general unease about the economy didn’t keep customers away from McDonald’s in the third…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Persistently high inflation and gas prices are looming over sports and the monetary pipeline that…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is focusing on economic issues as he fine-tunes his closing argument in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department has announced $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has made another outsized interest rate hike aimed at…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss bank Credit Suisse has unveiled a “radical strategy” meant to overcome recent troubles…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics has officially appointed third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong as…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September, snapping two…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says he is “relatively optimistic” the deal for returning…

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California-based headquarters of athletic shoemaker…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for…