AP National Business

By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to develop floating…

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will spend $491 million to expand and upgrade an Indiana metal stamping plant for production of steel and…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faces an in-depth antitrust investigation in Britain…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police are investigating a fake advertising campaign that appeared on social media and shows a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press NEW CARROLLTON, Md. (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is laying out her vision for a modernized,…

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says corporate travel is recovering a bit more slowly than the airline had expected. Southwest said Thursday that…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The largest part of the U.S. economy is holding up against the hottest inflation in four…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN says it is scrapping its “New Day” morning show for a revamped program that will be hosted…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s consumer inflation surged to 20.5% in August, its statistics agency said…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed over 6% this week for the first time since the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Here’s what’s in the tentative agreement that railroad unions secured to prevent a potential…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says the Group of Seven major economies have agreed to take a tougher, more coordinated stance toward…

By MATT OTT and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Outdoor gear company Patagonia says “the earth is now our only shareholder” after transferring the…

CAIRO (AP) — Flash flooding across Sudan has killed at least 20 people over the past week, raising the official death toll since the rainy season…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to sharpen the national security…

By The Associated Press Software company Adobe is buying online design company Figma in an approximately $20 billion cash-and-stock deal. Figma,…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell again last week to a four-month…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have declared that Hungary has become “a hybrid regime of electoral…

By LISA ANTHONY of NerdWallet The possibility of a recession in the near future and the likely reduction in credit availability that is often…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to dismantle a 1-mile-long depressed freeway that was built in Detroit by demolishing Black…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is proposing legislation to force manufacturers to ensure…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city…

LONDON (AP) — Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge as oil and natural gas companies are under…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Friday after higher-than-expected U.S.…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled,…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A deal reached Thursday between freight rail companies and their workers has ensured…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you shop online for clothes or furniture, sneakers or concert tickets, you’ve seen the option…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have grown fond of “buy now, pay later” services, but the “pay later” part is…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Republican governors are escalating their partisan tactic of sending migrants to…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics says it’s shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a state with the second-most federally recognized Indigenous…

JUNCTION CITY, Ky. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a 2019 pipeline explosion that resulted in one death and the destruction of…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration has approved plans submitted by 34 states and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson rise; Nucor, Union Pacific…

The Associated Press Stocks closed modestly higher on Wall Street after a day of veering between gains and losses. The tentative trading came a day…

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A new surveys shows nearly one in five U.S. adults bet money on sports over the past…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose $1.17 to $88.48 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for November delivery rose 93…