Category: News
Wayfair, Travelers rise; PPG Industries, iRobot fall, Friday, 1/19/2024
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Wayfair, Travelers rise; PPG Industries, iRobot fall ByThe Associated Press January 19, 2024, 12:29 PM NEW YORK — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: J.B. Hunt Transportation Services Inc., up $1.78 to $198.72. The trucking company’s fourth-quarter earnings fell short of analysts’ forecasts, but revenue beat expectations. PPG Industries…
Inside Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ: When ‘music media’ becomes ‘men’s media,’ what’s lost?
LOS ANGELES — Nearly three decades after it was established, Pitchfork, the most influential music publication of the internet age with the power to make or break an artist, is being absorbed by another entity — a men’s fashion and style magazine. The website, beloved for being one of modern music’s true centers of gravity and renowned for its daily record reviews scored 0.0 to…
Libya says production has resumed at its largest oilfield after more than 2-week hiatus
Libya’s state-owned oil company says production has resumed at the country’s largest oilfield, ending a more than two-week hiatus after protesters blocked the facility over fuel shortages BySAMY MAGDY Associated Press January 21, 2024, 9:10 AM This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo) The Associated Press CAIRO — Libya’s state-owned oil company resumed production at the country’s largest oilfield…
Macy’s, SolarEdge rise; Archer Daniels Midland, Sunoco fall, Monday, 1/22/2024
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: Macy’s, SolarEdge rise; Archer Daniels Midland, Sunoco fall ByThe Associated Press January 22, 2024, 12:28 PM NEW Y0RK — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: Archer Daniels Midland Co., down $16.50 to $51.69. An accounting investigation is under way at the agribusiness giant and its top financial executive has…
Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution
ST. LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi River. More than half of the basin’s miles of rivers and…
Stock market today: Wall Street ticks higher and adds to its record high
BANGKOK — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday after Wall Street built on its all-time high reached last week, while Japan’s central bank kept its easy credit policy intact. Shanghai’s benchmark extended its losses, but Hong Kong’s jumped 2.5%. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices edged lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index added 0.3% to 36,637.03, nudging closer to its all-time record set in 1989, before…
Crypto firm Terraform Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Terraform Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, less than two years after a collapse of the company’s cryptocurrency devastated traders around the world ByThe Associated Press January 22, 2024, 10:30 AM File – Police escort Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, March 24, 2023. Terraform Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, less than two years after a tremendous…
Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Houthi ship attacks, US Navy’s Mideast chief says
JERUSALEM — Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander told The Associated Press on Monday. Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed individual attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden….
Federal officials recommend that airlines inspect door plugs on some older Boeing jets as well
Federal officials are recommending that airlines inspect the door plugs on more Boeing 737s after one of the panel blew off a Boeing jet in midflight ByThe Associated Press January 22, 2024, 11:13 AM FILE – This image taken Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows a section of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that is missing panel on a…
TurboTax maker Intuit barred from advertising ‘free’ tax services without disclosing who’s eligible
U.S. regulators have barred TurboTax maker Intuit Inc. from advertising its services as “free” unless they are free for all customers, or if eligibility is clearly disclosed ByWYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP business writer January 23, 2024, 10:45 AM FILE – This is a display of TurboTax on display in a Costco Warehouse in Pittsburgh on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. U.S. regulators have barred TurboTax maker Intuit…