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Dow Jones industrials sink 700 points as bond yields rise
Oct 10, 2018
Companies that have been big winners, including tech firms, suffered steep declines.
U.S. unemployment rate falls to 49-year low of 3.7 percent
Oct 5, 2018
America's economic expansion is now the second-longest on record, having already surpassed the boom of the 1960s.
Amazon ups wages for 350K, says it will advocate better pay
Oct 2, 2018
Employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon now owns, will get the same pay hike. Amazon's hourly operations and customer service employees, some who already make $15 per hour, will also see a wage increase.
SEC files complaint against Tesla’s Elon Musk
Sep 27, 2018
The commission is asking for an order that would stop Musk from being “an officer or director” of any public company.
Iran says U.S. wants to overthrow its government, rejects two-way talks
Sep 25, 2018
At the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian president accuses the Trump administration of violating “state obligations.”
China raises tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods in technology fight
Sep 18, 2018
The announcement followed a warning by an American business group that a "downward spiral" in their conflict appeared certain following Trump's penalties on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
US hiring picked up in August as pay surged most in 9 years
Sep 7, 2018
The economy added a strong 201,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate stayed at 3.9 percent, near an 18-year low.
Facebook, Twitter pledge to defend against foreign intrusion
Sep 5, 2018
Facebook’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, and Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, testified before the Senate intelligence committee.
Nation’s top student loan official resigns
Aug 27, 2018
Seth Frotman is latest high-level departure from the CFPB since Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, took over.