Just a day after New York police and state tax agents raided two locations of the Empire Cannabis Club, the marijuana dispensaries are back in business, showing the challenges of shutting down unlicensed weed stores.
The US economy showed an overall increase in activity since late May, though most regions expect the pace of expansion to weaken, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts.
Rarely has Goldman Sachs Group Inc. worked so hard to unimpress.
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates for a second straight meeting, keeping the door open for more hikes as it pushed back inflation’s return to its 2% target.
Peruvian business leaders have embraced President Dina Boluarte, even as her approval ratings crater with a population angry over a weak economy and deadly protests that followed her predecessor’s impeachment seven months ago.
President Joe Biden said the fate of democracy would be determined by decisions made by the US and its allies in the coming years, as he championed diplomatic breakthroughs at this week’s NATO summit and sought to implicitly bolster his reelection prospects.
Vice President Kamala Harris convened a group of civil rights and labor leaders Wednesday to discuss the field of artificial intelligence, which critics warn is already perpetuating discrimination and increased surveillance of American workers.
The man accused by Trafigura Group of being behind a $590 million nickel fraud finally responded to the allegations, claiming that Trafigura itself “devised and proposed” the scheme.
The race to unearth metals needed for the clean-energy transition has become so intense that even Argentina — a country where in the recent past companies had been more likely to head for the exit — drew record foreign investment last year. Flows into Argentina grew 123%, with the lithium and copper industries contributing billions of dollars. In South America, only Uruguay and Paraguay saw bigger investment increases. Despite tight capital controls, protectionism and political volatility — driv
A former Marine who voted for Donald Trump and joined the Jan. 6, 2021, protests sued Fox News over broadcasts that claimed he was a federal agent planted in the crowd to start an insurrection that would make the outgoing president look bad.
