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Party City is shuttering all stores, ending a nearly 40-year run.

Starbucks baristas began a five-day strike Friday, after accusing the coffee giant of stalling union contract negotiations.

John Mayer’s body of real estate is a wonderland as the Grammy winner has finalized a deal to purchase the famed Jim Henson Company lot for an estimated $45 million. 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. along with the parent company of Zelle alleging the firms rushed a peer-to-peer payment network to market without first implementing adequate consumer protections.

AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.

Even as the Trump and Biden administrations have taken and maintained aggressive stances on reducing China's role in major U.S. manufacturing sectors, auto industry veterans say it remains impossible to build cars and trucks without help from the Far East.

Walmart is testing body-camera technology in North Texas, as it looks to increase security at its stores, according to CNBC. At least one store is in Denton, the cable news network reported.  

Hundreds of drivers at Amazon facilities in seven locations nationwide launched a strike Thursday morning, potentially disrupting holiday deliveries in an effort to get the online retailing giant to recognize their affiliation with the Teamsters union and negotiate a labor contract.

Existing-home sales in the U.S. topped a rate of 4 million in November for the first time in six months as house hunters begrudgingly accept mortgage rates above 6%.

Applications for US unemployment benefits fell last week after spiking earlier this month, continuing a streak of volatility that often occurs during the holiday season.

Americans are scrambling to stock up on cars, appliances and other big-ticket imports in anticipation of new Trump administration tariffs - a spending spree that could reignite the very inflation buyers are hoping to avoid.

Federal Reserve officials made their third and final rate cut of 2024 at their meeting Wednesday. They also forecast two fewer rate cuts in 2025 than they had previously expected, as inflation lingers and the economy remains robust.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram will soon account for half of the company’s advertising revenue in the US, according to estimates from research firm Emarketer, further cementing the photo- and video-sharing app’s role as the key growth driver for the company.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok's challenge to a law that would ban the popular social media app next month unless it sells itself.

US new-home construction unexpectedly fell in November as a drop in multifamily projects mitigated a rebound in starts of single-family houses, solely in the storm-ravaged South.

Keller Apothecary opened in 1933 and nearly a century later was still filling as many as 200 prescriptions a day. It made $2 million in sales last year. Customers were known by name. Help-yourself containers of candy and dog treats sat on the glass countertop. Thank-you notes and neighborhood news filled a corkboard inside the small shop. Then the reimbursements for prescriptions started to drop.