SAN DIEGO — Apple and mobile chip maker Qualcomm have settled a bitter financial dispute centered on some of the technology that enables iPhones to connect to the internet. The surprise truce announced Tuesday came […]
With the advent of the Internet—and Facebook, Twitter and YouTube—the role of the news media has been forever transformed, with negative implications for both investing and the American psyche—as if there were a difference between […]
WASHINGTON. D.C. — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that he is prepared to be patient in deciding when to raise interest rates again.”There is no pre-set path for policy,” Powell said during an […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. employers dramatically stepped up their hiring in December, adding 312,000 jobs in an encouraging display of strength for an economy in the midst of international trade skirmishes and a partial shutdown […]
JACKSON, Miss. — Two women say in a lawsuit that a Mississippi-based bank is unfairly charging overdraft fees. The Clarion Ledger reports Cryesha McDonald of Waynesboro and Chantal Lewis of Jackson sued Trustmark National Bank […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve signaled its confidence Wednesday in the U.S. economy by raising a key interest rate for a third time this year, forecasting another rate hike before year’s end and predicting […]
NEW YORK — Subscription radio company SiriusXM says it’s buying music streaming service Pandora in a deal valued at about $3.5 billion that will allow it to expand its service beyond cars and into mobile […]
HICKORY — Lenoir-Rhyne University has announced an innovative, new program to provide a minimum of 50 percent off tuition for any first-year undergraduate student with a 3.5 or higher high school GPA who is a […]
RALEIGH – National General Insurance, a property and casualty insurance company, plans to expand its operations in Winston-Salem to create 626 jobs over five years, Governor Roy Cooper announced last week. The company, and a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. economy created more jobs than expected in June, but steady wage gains pointed to moderate inflation pressures that should keep the Federal Reserve on a path of gradual interest rate […]
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