AP National Business

HONG KONG (AP) — Travel between Hong Kong and China will no longer require COVID-19 PCR tests nor be held to a daily limit as both places seek to…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly a year, the Federal Reserve has been on a mission to cool down the job market to…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple on Thursday posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven…

CINCINNATI (AP) — New details have emerged at former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s federal corruption trial on the use of the state…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford says its fourth-quarter net income fell 90% from a year earlier. That led company officials to…

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks reported lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter, hurt by COVID restrictions in China…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Google’s parent company Alphabet on Thursday posted lower profit and a small revenue increase for last…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed higher, led by excitement around tech stocks and a surge for Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Meta Platforms Inc., up $35.65 to $188.77. Facebook’s…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fourth week in a row, a sign of relative stability that…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is leaving his post. Biden says in a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Indian Ocean countries who want better safeguards for marine life by updating fishing…

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three decades after Bill Clinton signed into the law the nation’s…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit residential areas in an eastern Ukrainian city Thursday for the second…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s government says it has ordered four Russian diplomats based in Vienna to…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises called off its $2.5 billion share…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced another “forceful” increase in interest rates. The central…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press London (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — For months, the United States has restricted Iraq’s access to its own…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has appointed a company veteran as its president to lead the Japanese electronics and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect…