The Federal Trade Commission is investigating allegations that online retailer Amazon misleads customers about its prices and discounts based on a complaint by consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog.
Millennials are spending significantly more than their elders in four of six categories examined in a survey from Bankrate.com. Those between the ages of 18 and 36 are spending more than their older peers…
Buoyed by a strong job market and a stable economy, consumers are forecast to spend $83.6 billion on back-to-school and back-to-college items, an increase of more than 10% from last year’s $75.8 billion, according…
Hiring for teens took off in June as companies employed 1,023,000 workers aged 16 to 19, the most since 2007, following a below-average May, according to the latest analysis by Chicago-based global outplacement and…
As the U.S. economic expansion heads into its ninth year, the worst recession since the Great Depression is receding into memory. The layoffs that whipsawed the economy during the downturn and idled 8.8 million…
By 2035, about U.S. 170 communities, or twice as many as today, will face chronic flooding, with more than 100 seeing at least a quarter of their land chronically flooded, if preventative measures are…
Americans love buying Hondas, and American thieves love stealing them, according to the latest report from the The National Insurance Crime Bureau. The Honda Accord and Civic were the two most stolen autos in…
Americans love buying Hondas, and American thieves love stealing them. The Accord and Civic were the two most stolen autos in the nation in 2016,
The economy has created the side hustle — earning extra money apart from main source of income — and apparently more than 44 million American adults have one.
The pace of FBI firearm background checks so far this year is down drastically, by about 9%, from 2016. Through June 30, the FBI has performed 1.2 million fewer firearm background checks than in…
The pace of FBI firearm background checks so far this year is down drastically, by about 9%, from 2016. Through June 30, the FBI has performed 1.2 million fewer firearm background checks than in…
“Spider-Man: Homecoming,’’ the sixth film in the blockbuster’s series, finished first in the weekend box office with a $117 million gross, cementing its place among the biggest movie franchises of all time. The latest…
“Spider-Man: Homecoming,’’ the sixth film in the blockbuster franchise, finished first in the weekend box office with a $117 million gross, cementing its place among the biggest movie franchises of all time.
There has been an erosion in the number of insurance companies participating in the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces. As insurers have exited states’ exchanges in recent years, the number of insurers has…
High-speed internet use among the 35-member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) surged in 2016.
U.S. employment increased by 222,000 in June, topping expectations. The jobless rate ticked up 0.1% to 4.4% from a 16-year low in May.
A run of bad news has lowered the market cap of Tesla by 19% since the shares of the electric car maker reached their closing high price for the year on June 23.
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has raised expectations to such a level that when the electric car maker fails to receive the highest safety rating for one of its models, the news is perceived as…
Employers announced plans to trim payrolls by more than 31,000 jobs in June, the lowest monthly total of the year, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas.
Nearly two-thirds of jobs in some metropolitan areas of the United States could be automated within the next 20 years, according to new research.
