WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic growth will slow to 1.6% this year from 2.8% last year as President Donald Trump’s erratic trade wars disrupt global commerce, drive up costs and leave businesses and consumers paralyzed by uncertainty. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...
Dollar General set a quarterly sales record of $10.44 billion and upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at bargain stores and off-price retailers amid economic uncertainty. The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January ...
NEW YORK — Target’s challenge to revive sales and its status as a cheap chic retailer just got more complicated. The discounter announced on Wednesday that sales fell more than expected in the first quarter, and the retailer warned they will slip for all of 2025 year as its customers, ...
Pictured is St Susan’s Executive Director Cherie Rowland and owner of Chautauqua Comics, Al Steffens. Chautauqua Comics’s Free Comic Book Day event on May 3 raised $675 for St Susan’s Soup Kitchen, from 425 people who attended the event. According to St Susan’s staff, this donation will ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says making cents doesn’t make sense anymore. The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday. This move comes as the cost of making ...
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective homebuyers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for the housing market. Existing home sales dropped 0.5% last month, from March, to a seasonally ...