LONDON (AP) — British financial assets were under pressure Friday on growing speculation that the Labour government has ditched plans to raise income taxes in a crucial budget at the end of the month. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves was clearly considering becoming the first Chancellor of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — An early swoon for the U.S. stock market on Friday is calming down, as Nvidia, bitcoin, gold and other high flyers on Wall Street swing. After starting the day with a sharp drop of 1.3%, the S&P 500 quickly erased all of it and was up by 0.3%, as of 12:50 p.m. Eastern ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads’ proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast rail network. Roughly 99% of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the largest rail merger in history Friday, ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two months after 300 South Korean nationals were detained and left the U.S. following in an immigration raid at Hyundai’s electric vehicle manufacturing site in Georgia, some of those workers have returned to America to resume those jobs, their employer said Thursday. The September raid shut down work on a battery plant under construction at the sprawling site near Savannah where Hyundai Motor Group began producing electric vehicles last year. Most of the 475 workers detained were South Korean nationals. U.S. immigration officials said they entered the U.S. ...
(AP) — More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers went on strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company. The strike was intended to disrupt Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, which is typically one of the company’s busiest days of the ...
The theme of November’s First Friday, put on by Marietta Main Street, was “Cheers to Charity” which encouraged local businesses to partner with a charity and provide the community with an opportunity to help out those in need simply by shopping. Multiple businesses donated a ...
