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China’s economy has rebounded from a painful contraction to grow by 3.2% in the latest quarter compared to a year ago

Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements

Senate Republicans are poised to roll out their $1 trillion counteroffer to House Democrats' $3 trillion COVID-19 aid package

Unidentified hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies Wednesday in an apparent Bitcoin scam

Housing advocacy groups have joined lawmakers in lobbying Arizona's governor to extend his coronavirus-related moratorium on evictions

American Airlines is telling 25,000 workers that they could lose their jobs in October because of the sharp drop in air travel during the virus pandemic

New Jersey gambling regulators are considering Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s plan to buy Caesars Entertainment Corp. in a sweeping $17.3 billion deal affecting four of nine casino properties in Atlantic City

President Donald Trump is rolling back an influential environmental law from the Nixon era that he says delays infrastructure projects

Ministers from the OPEC cartel have agreed to allow more oil to flow from the taps, saying demand for oil is growing as economies take steps to reopen

The Federal Reserve says economic activity has picked up in most regions of the country but still remains well below pre-pandemic levels with the country facing high levels of uncertainty

JC Penney is cutting about 1,000 jobs

Google says it plans to invest $4.5 billion in India’s Jio Platforms Ltd, taking a 7.7% stake in the digital services company owned by India’s most highly-valued company Reliance Industries

Markets worldwide rallied on rising hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, and the S&P 500 climbed back to where it was a few days after it set its record early this year

Nightly protests in Portland, Oregon, that have devolved into violent clashes with police have prompted soul-searching

Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday amid fresh hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday: Moderna, Waters rise; ASML Holding falls

It’s been the story for many a starry-eyed creative type looking for a big break — wait tables to pay the bills, while auditioning, performing, writing, whatever it takes

Ryan Dezember, author of “Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare,” discussed the evolving housing market.

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

When Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler merges with France’s PSA Groupe early next year, the new company will be called Stellantis

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is imposing travel bans on employees of the Chinese technology giant Huawei and other companies the U.S. determines are assisting authoritarian governments in cracking down on human rights

Microsoft cut dozens of full-time staffers from its MSN news service, continuing an initiative to move away from human editors in favor of artificial intelligence

Investment bank Goldman Sachs posted a massive 41% rise in revenues in the second quarter, the bank said Wednesday, helped by a blowout performance by the bank’s trading desks

The Trump administration is hardening its efforts to prevent the completion of new German-Russian and Turkish-Russian natural gas pipelines by warning companies involved in the projects they'll be subject to U.S. sanctions

France’s new prime minister on Wednesday laid out 100 billion euros in new spending to rescue the virus-battered economy from its worst crisis since World War II

The nation’s largest health insurer more than doubled its profit in the second quarter, as COVID-19 shutdowns kept patients out of doctor’s offices and off operating tables

Europe's car market is going electric

Production at America″s factories, utilities and mines surged last month, but remained well below pre-pandemic levels

A European Union high court has ruled that technology giant Apple does not have to pay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes to Ireland, as the EU’s executive commission wants

The French tourist industry received a further boost Wednesday with the partial reopening of Disneyland Paris and the opening up of the top floor of the Eiffel Tower

China has accused Britain of colluding with Washington to hurt Huawei after the tech giant was blocked from working on a next-generation mobile phone network

China’s ambassador to the UK has questioned whether Britain can offer a fair business environment following its decision to ban Huawei from taking part in the country’s high-speed wireless network

Asian shares are mostly higher as investors pin hopes on news that an experimental COVID-19 vaccine under development by Moderna and the U.S. National Institutes of Health revved up people’s immune systems just as desired

Early-stage testing showed the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems the way scientists had hoped

Foie gras is back on the menu in California after a judge ruled the rich dish can’t be prevented from being brought in from out of state

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’ll begin to roll out details of the new COVID-19 relief package to senators next week

Best Buy will start to require customers to wear face coverings in stores nationwide, even in states or localities that don’t require them to do so

Federal regulators say the nation’s four largest railroads shouldn’t be able to exclude all the details of their conversations from a lawsuit challenging the way they set rates in the past

Joe Biden has released a $2 trillion plan aimed at combating climate change and spurring economic growth in part by overhauling America’s energy industry

Presidential adviser Ivanka Trump has unveiled a White House-backed national ad campaign highlighting alternative ways to start a career

Peacock, one of the last big new streaming services to launch in the U.S., was supposed to get a big boost from carrying the Olympics

In 2018, foreign students contributed $45 billion to the economy.

Stocks closed broadly higher Tuesday after another day of unsettled trading on Wall Street

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Tuesday: Ford Motor, Xylem rise; Mohawk Industries, Wells Fargo fall

Investigators say a pilot’s errors and disorientation were primary factors in causing the 2019 crash of a Boeing 767 cargo plane in Texas

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard warned Tuesday that the U.S. economy appears to be slowing after an initial burst of recovery and called for the Fed to take aggressive steps to spur growth

An interfaith coalition is pressing the world’s largest brewer to remove the name of a Hindu god from a popular beer that dates to the late 1800s

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

Britain has backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a role in the U.K.’s new high-speed mobile phone network amid security concerns fueled by rising tensions between Beijing and Western powers

Delta Air Lines lost $5.7 billion in the second quarter, as the coronavirus pandemic crushed air travel