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 […]
Yvonne Jimenez Smith and her husband, Brandon Smith, spoke in whispers recently as they visited a white stucco house they planned to buy on a leafy street in San Jose, California. Following six months of […]
SAN JOSE — Apple on Monday unveiled software upgrades that would let older iPhones run faster, help parents limit their children’s screen time and make its Siri voice assistant work more like a rival feature […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell last week, pointing to a further tightening in worker availability. The robust labor market and firming inflation have cemented expectations the Federal Reserve […]
Ahead of the release of his short session budget, Governor Roy Cooper shared recommendations to create the N.C. Job Ready Fund to train and grow North Carolina’s workforce to fill the jobs of today and […]
LONDON — Facebook will introduce new measures to improve transparency around adverts in Britain by June this year and require political ads to be clearly labeled, the firm’s Chief Technology Officer told a parliamentary committee. […]
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