DETROIT (Fox Business) – A year after filing for bankruptcy, Detroit is building momentum to get out, especially after workers and retirees voted in favor...
JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 60 percent of small business owners with employees favor increasing the federal minimum wage...
Russell Flannery, FORBES (Forbes.com)—The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration last night reportedly shut down a factory that supplies meat to McDonald’s and KFC after a...
(New York Daily News) – Buying a car for your teenage driver can be a bit of an overwhelming experience. There are a myriad of options...
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday charged FedEx with assisting illegal pharmacies by knowingly delivering painkillers and dangerous drugs to...
RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in its 39-year history Thursday, outlining plans to cut 18,000 jobs in...
(CityLab) – Economic inequality has risen substantially in the United States over the past several decades, but its rise has been uneven across the 50 states....
(New York Times) – Lawmakers say they want to stop United States companies from reincorporating overseas to lower their tax bills, but the Obama administration...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t blame the millennial generation for lackluster home sales. They are increasingly ethnically diverse, more educated and less...
(USA Today) – 21st Century Fox, a film and TV empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch, offered to buy Time Warner last month for about $80 billion,...
(Bloomberg) – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is recalling 1.6 million cars globally for a front-passenger air-bag defect that has caused manufacturers including Honda Motor Co....
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Another partisan battle is brewing on Capitol Hill as Social Security in general, and disability insurance in particular,...
JEFF HORWITZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued a major debt collection law firm on Monday, alleging it is a...
by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Black entrepreneurs, Black millionaires, a Black billionaire and questions about the reality of true...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The U.S. Black Chambers (USBC) and the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators, and Developers...
MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Big Tobacco may soon get smaller. The makers of Camel and Newport cigarettes said Friday they are...
(New York Times) – When the car service Uber and its competitors make news, it is usually for something like the raucous protests against them by cabdrivers across...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of companies, including Apple, Honda and Coca-Cola, have agreed to pay their suppliers more quickly in a bid to boost small...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says Apple’s characteristic retail store layout may be registered as a trademark. The Court of Justice on Thursday overturned a...
(The Guardian)—IBM is to invest $3bn (£1.7bn) over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help...
Pan Pylas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — More “headline-grabbing” acquisitions are likely over the coming year as businesses take advantage of a period of improving...
SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The car-hailing service Uber is taking on New York City’s taxis, temporarily dropping some of its prices...
(USA Today) – The single shrapnel-spewing deployment of an air bag in an old Accord has led Honda to expand its recall by 500,000 to 1...
DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling 100,610 vehicles in North America for various safety defects. The company announced the six separate...
