Tag: Business

Stock market today: Wall Street barely budges ahead of inflation report

NEW YORK -- Stocks barely budged in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as markets wait for a key report on inflation.The S&P...

Mauritania goes to the polls with a regional security crisis and economic concerns among the issues

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which...

US weekly jobless claims fall, but the total number collecting benefits is the most since 2021

Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits rose to the highest level in...

US sanctions Boeing for sharing information about 737 Max 9 investigation

Boeing is being sanctioned by U.S. investigators for sharing information about a federal investigation of a door plug blowout that left a gaping...

Lawyer for British tabloid accuses Prince Harry of destroying documents sought in litigation

LONDON -- An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid Thursday accused Prince Harry of engaging in “shocking” and “extraordinary” obfuscation by...

Police clash with protesters in Kenya as the military patrols the streets

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan police on Thursday clashed with protesters in Nairobi before planned protests against a contentious finance bill, despite the president's...