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More than 240,000 global technology-sector employees have been laid off since the start of the year, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi.…

Starbucks on Wednesday criticized a message by its union about Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. The union, Starbucks…

Global energy prices are finishing the week the way they started — shooting higher as a cocktail of risks to supply have put investors on…

The numbers: U.S. consumer prices climbed 0.4% in September, the Labor Department said Thursday. While the pace is softer than the 0.6% gain in the prior…

UAW President Shawn Fain said the union would not expand its strike against the Big Three automakers on Friday, but that the UAW stood ready…

The numbers: Initial jobless claims were flat at 209,000 in the week ended Oct. 12, the Labor Department said Thursday.   Economists polled by The Wall…

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New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman declared the war on inflation over Thursday, but other economists are saying, “Not so…

Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia are quitting a Harvard executive board in protest of how university leaders have responded to…

The recent rise in long-term bond yields could obviate the need for further interest-rate hikes, Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Susan Collins said on…