U.S. applications for jobless benefits held steady last week as layoffs remain low despite uncertainty over how President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact the economy
Business
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May 15, 2025
U.S. wholesale prices dropped unexpectedly in April for the first time in more than a year despite President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports
Business
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May 15, 2025
Investing
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May 15, 2025
China has taken aim at a new U.S. rule against use anywhere in the world of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies
Business
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May 15, 2025
Walmart posted lower profits in the first quarter as Trump-era tariffs pushed up costs, forcing price hikes. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, the retail giant reported a quarterly profit of $4.45 billion
Boeing secured record-breaking orders in the Middle East, including a $96 billion deal with Qatar for 787 and 777X jets. The announcement comes during Donald Trump’s regional visit, boosting Boeing's stock to a yearly high.
CoreWeave posted stronger-than-expected Q1 revenue of $981.63 million in its first report as a public company, driven by soaring demand for AI infrastructure and a massive $11.2B deal with OpenAI.
USinMinutes
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May 15, 2025
Retail giant is expected to report increased revenue for first quarter of 2025
USinMinutes
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May 14, 2025
Trump’s 2025 agenda shakes up immigration, the economy, and family law — from DACA cuts to new tariffs and executive orders.
USinMinutes
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May 14, 2025
U.S. applications for jobless benefits held steady last week as layoffs remain low despite uncertainty over how President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact the economy
U.S. wholesale prices dropped unexpectedly in April for the first time in more than a year despite President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports
Investing
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May 15, 2025
China has taken aim at a new U.S. rule against use anywhere in the world of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies
Investing
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May 15, 2025
Investing
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May 15, 2025
First quarter uncertainties over Trump policies suppressed trade as businesses awaited clear trends
Trump’s 2025 agenda shakes up immigration, the economy, and family law — from DACA cuts to new tariffs and executive orders.
Trump’s tariff deal with China and other major economies expected to ease Consumer Price Index further
Economy
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May 13, 2025
The latest Consumer Price Index data reveals an upward trend in urban consumer prices, with notable increases in shelter and energy costs.
Economy
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May 13, 2025
Insured unemployment rate slips to 1.2% amid a 29,000 decrease in continuing claims
Economy
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May 9, 2025
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in February as easing mortgage rates and more properties on the market encouraged home shoppers
Negative trade balance peaked at $366 billion in 2022, but remains a matter of concern at $295.4 billion in 2024
Energy, plastics and aluminum imports likely to become costlier pushing up production cost of consumer products in US
Data Dive
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Mar 4, 2025
America’s trade gap has risen to $918.4 billion with China and EU at the top enjoying the highest positive trade balance
Data Dive
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Feb 20, 2025
Ranked first in terms of GDP with a $25.43 trillion economy, the United States has tackled inflation worries bringing it down to 2.4%
Data Dive
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Nov 13, 2024
Boeing secured record-breaking orders in the Middle East, including a $96 billion deal with Qatar for 787 and 777X jets. The announcement comes during Donald Trump’s regional visit, boosting Boeing's stock to a yearly high.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell defended the central bank’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, despite growing calls to lower them. Powell also appeared critical of the administration’s planned tariffs, cautioning that such trade measures could negatively impact the broader economy by increasing inflation and disrupting growth
Fed Holds Rates Steady Despite Pressure From President Trump Amid Inflation and Tariff Tensions
Industry
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May 7, 2025
Company’s Revenue Increases to $17.7 Billion for Quarter Ended Mar 31, 2025
Industry
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May 6, 2025
Warren Buffet the longtime CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and Oracle of Omaha is set to retire at the end of the year
Industry
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May 3, 2025
U.S. applications for jobless benefits held steady last week as layoffs remain low despite uncertainty over how President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact the economy
U.S. wholesale prices dropped unexpectedly in April for the first time in more than a year despite President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports
China has taken aim at a new U.S. rule against use anywhere in the world of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies
Business
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May 15, 2025
Dick’s Sporting Goods is buying the struggling footwear chain Foot Locker for about $2.4 billion, the second buyout of a major footwear company this year as business leaders struggle with U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs
Business
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May 15, 2025
Walmart posted lower profits in the first quarter as Trump-era tariffs pushed up costs, forcing price hikes. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, the retail giant reported a quarterly profit of $4.45 billion
Business
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May 15, 2025
Brand new gyms abruptly close amid bankruptcy
Ant Anstead's car company renews bankruptcy filing amid fraud allegations
Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers Tuesday, nearly 3% of its entire workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spends heavily on artificial intelligence
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May 13, 2025
Major Healthcare Company Files for Bankruptcy
Layoffs and Bankruptcies
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May 5, 2025
Kohls will be closing stores
Layoffs & Bankruptcies
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Apr 22, 2025
Trump’s 2025 agenda shakes up immigration, the economy, and family law — from DACA cuts to new tariffs and executive orders.
Hamas has freed an Israeli-American soldier who was held hostage in Gaza for more than 19 months
President Donald Trump says “great progress” was being made in ongoing U.S.-China talks over tariffs menacing the global economy, and even suggested a “total reset" was on the table as tariff negotiations are set to continue Sunday in Switzerland
Trump Presidency and Tariffs
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May 11, 2025
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell defended the central bank’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, despite growing calls to lower them. Powell also appeared critical of the administration’s planned tariffs, cautioning that such trade measures could negatively impact the broader economy by increasing inflation and disrupting growth
Trump Presidency and Tariffs
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May 7, 2025
Fed Holds Rates Steady Despite Pressure From President Trump Amid Inflation and Tariff Tensions
Trump Presidency and Tariffs
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May 7, 2025
Bitcoin is likely consolidating before its next upward push, traders agree, while the macro picture looks tricky for risk assets as the Fed stays hawkish.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2025--In a move aimed at expanding investment opportunities for retirement plan participants, Empower is announcing today a new program that will pav
Personal Finance
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May 14, 2025
Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding
Personal Finance
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May 14, 2025
Trump’s tariff deal with China and other major economies expected to ease Consumer Price Index further
Personal Finance
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May 13, 2025
China has taken aim at a new U.S. rule against use anywhere in the world of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies
European Union regulators are accusing TikTok of breaching digital safety rules because of because it’s not being transparent enough about ads shown to users of the video sharing app
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the organization’s procurement agency is cooperating with police investigating corruption and fraud allegations involving the purchase of military equipment
Technology
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May 15, 2025
A former food delivery driver has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred
Technology
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May 14, 2025
Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony has reported an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March, thanks to the robust performance of its music and video-game operations
Technology
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May 14, 2025
Kasperi Kapanen scored on a scramble in front of the net at 7:14 of overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to advance to the Western Conference final for the second year in a row
Julius Randle scored 29 points on 13-for-18 shooting to send the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Western Conference finals for the second straight time with a 121-110 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 on Wednesday night
Tadeo Allende scored twice and Inter Miami tied the San Jose Earthquakes 3-3 in Lionel Messi’s first game in the Bay Area since joining MLS
Sports
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May 15, 2025
The Colorado Rockies left Texas as the first team in baseball’s modern era to lose 36 of their first 43 games and hoping an off day in Arizona can help them reset
Sports
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May 15, 2025
Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves, three Florida defensemen scored and the Panthers routed the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-1 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series
Sports
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May 15, 2025
As mental health awareness increases, so are conversations about about what constitutes toxic behavior at work and the kinds of treatment people won't tolerate for a steady paycheck
A Louisiana judge will hear arguments challenging a first-of-its-kind reclassification of two abortion-inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances.”
There were cheers when Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition
Health
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May 15, 2025
Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment passed by voters six months ago
Health
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May 15, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit
Health
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May 14, 2025
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive
North Carolina enacted a rare energy law in the South in 2021 that directed power plant emissions be sharply reduced
A Jesuit priest says he will rather go to prison than pay a fine of 500 euros or $541 for participating in a climate activists’ street blockade in the southern German city of Nuremberg
Climate Change
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Apr 1, 2025
When a 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar sent shockwaves into Thailand, Naruemon Thonglek and Chanpen Kaewnoi didn’t immediately hear it also had collapsed a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok, where their friends and families had been working
Climate Change
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Apr 1, 2025
The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000
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Apr 1, 2025
Britain's prime minister says his government is talking with several countries to host rejected asylum seekers as they wait to be deported
Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed away from proposed direct peace talks in Turkey with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
They might look like lost tourists who are unkempt and overloaded with gear
World
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May 15, 2025
A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis
World
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May 15, 2025
Israel’s Yuval Raphael is keeping a low profile at the Eurovision Song Contest
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May 15, 2025
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2025--Big Blue Swim School, one of the country's fastest-growing franchises in the $3 billion learn-to-swim industry, announces the appointment of Brandon Bean as Chi
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2025--Savi, an industry leader in student loan and education benefits that empowers people to save money on student loans and explore new education options through
The Cannes Film Festival has barred French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of the competition entry “Case 137.”
An athlete will aim to be the first person to swim around Martha's Vineyard to educate the public on sharks
Israel’s Yuval Raphael is keeping a low profile at the Eurovision Song Contest
Entertainment
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May 15, 2025
Elmo, Abby Cadabby and the rest of the “Sesame Street” gang will get some high-profile help as they travel down a new road
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May 15, 2025
There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna
Entertainment
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May 15, 2025
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in its first case stemming from the flurry of actions marking the start of President Donald Trump’s second term
NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand to massively ramp up defense investment to 5% of gross domestic product over the next 7 years
A new poll suggests that while the overall concept of diversity, equity and inclusion is divisive, some of the DEI initiatives being affected by the Trump administration’s policies are less controversial
Politics
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May 15, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has left Qatar for the United Arab Emirates on the final leg of his Middle East tour
Politics
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May 15, 2025
Federal courts have so far uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally
Politics
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May 15, 2025
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