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U.S. consumer confidence dropped in September for a third straight month, suggesting concerns over the delta variant and higher prices continue to dampen sentiment.
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With some mills converting to cardboard to meet the spike in e-commerce deliveries and others shutting down altogether, nearly one-fifth of North American production capacity...
Virgil Griffith, a developer of Ethereum, admitted Monday that he conspired to coach North Korea on how to evade economic sanctions by using the cryptocurrency...
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"These young people don't tend to have the kind of safety nets that other young adults do," says an advocate. Some, including at the agency...
If the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passes Congress, it could add 2 million jobs per year over a decade. But those jobs, mostly in...
Marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities - deemed "essential" by many states at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis - became an early refuge for retail...
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