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The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery fell $1.17 to $76.11 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for February delivery fell…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s attorney general says Bayer has agreed to pay $698 million to end a lawsuit…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Govs. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire have banned TikTok and  popular…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed a new round of financial penalties on people and entities…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual tech industry event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fifth straight week, even as the Federal…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except…

By The Associated Press Billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022 began what would turn out to be an upending of one of the world’s…

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say family members who ran a sham ministry have been charged with defrauding the federal government of COVID-19…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German official who won a defamation case against Twitter this week has dedicated his legal…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have met to seek ways to stand up to the United States over its new green…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Shares of Tesla rose slightly Thursday despite news that CEO Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of the electric…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back their retail spending last month as the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign that the labor…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of nurses have walked off their jobs in England, joining ambulance and postal workers, bus drivers and airport baggage…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — The company that assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones has announced it is easing COVID-19 restrictions…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point, saying the move was “still…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s central bank has raised its key interest rate increase again but toned down the pace as…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss National Bank has raised its key interest rate. It comes as other central banks in Europe are following the U.S. Federal…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed its record pace of interest rate increases. But…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Self-proclaimed free speech warrior Elon Musk’s more unfettered version of Twitter could collide…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its trade deficit surged to over 2 trillion yen ($15 billion) in November as higher costs for oil and a weak yen…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A week after China dramatically eased some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 containment…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares followed Wall Street and Europe lower on Friday, with markets jittery over the…

DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock this week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. The…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators and shippers are questioning Union Pacific’s decision to temporarily limit…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press New research finds that TikTok’s powerful algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A hacker claims to have posed as the CEO of a financial institution to obtain access to the more…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it’s known to exist — on a…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — After Chinese state firms won a string of large state contracts in Guyana, an American…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroad workers who are fed up with their demanding work schedules and disappointed in the…

The Associated Press Stocks ended lower in bumpy trading on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate in its fight…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Delta Air Lines Inc., up 93 cents to $34.31. The airline…

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A battery recycler said Wednesday it will spend $3.5 billion and hire 1,500 workers on a new plant near the South Carolina…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is putting on hold plans to apply by 2025 a controversial method for protecting the privacy…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery rose $1.89 to $77.28 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for February delivery rose…

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — A person with a gun shot and wounded a contract worker outside an Amazon delivery station in Arizona before another contract…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Whether increased regulation would have prevented the spectacular collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Cohen’s New York Mets are on track to shatter spending records in his third season as…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Wednesday charged eight men of earning more than $100 million in illicit stock…