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More than 150 New York City business leaders are urging President Trump to acknowledge Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election and allow for a transition of power to begin for the sake of the U.S. democracy. Trump's protracted battle against the...

Widespread distribution of a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine next year is poised to be a game changer for markets, and Wall Street is trying to get ahead of the curve. What's happening: Investors aren't just preparing for a rally in US stocks...

Mars announced that it is acquiring Kind North America, the maker of Kind bars, in an effort to expand the partnership that started three years ago. Mars, which makes Snickers, Milky Way bars, M&M's and other candy bars, is acquiring the company for...

Months after a bitter strike during a pandemic, Bath Iron Works managers and production workers are starting to get on the same page when it comes to catching up on the production schedule. Machinists Union Local S6 and shipyard managers have been meeting...

Tata Steel has announced plans to make its UK business, based mainly in Port Talbot, "self-sustaining" while selling its Netherlands-based operations. Tata Steel said it planned to sell the European arm of its business and keep the UK business running...

President Trump is increasing pressure on China, and this time he's targeting capital markets. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order banning Americans from investing in a group of Chinese companies his administration says supply and support China’s military. The order blocks American...

In the wake of the pandemic, a number of stores like Macy's, Whole Foods (owned by Amazon), and Kroger are trying a new tactic to stay afloat: They're going dark. That doesn't mean they're shutting off the lights and calling it a...

Some grocery store chains are bringing back limits on purchasing certain items including toilet paper as COVID-19 cases spike in the U.S. In a statement to USA TODAY, Kroger said they have "proactively and temporarily set purchase limits to two...

There’s no salad or coffee bar at the newest Whole Foods Market. The Amazon-owned grocery store chain is officially opening its first permanent online-only store in Brooklyn, New York, to fulfill orders for grocery delivery, Whole Foods officials shared exclusively with USA TODAY Tuesday. Like other retailers’ online-only stores, also known as dark stores, the store will not be open to the public. On-demand grocery shopping for delivery and curbside pickup have grown in popularity in recent months amid the coronavirus pandemic as many shoppers look to make fewer trips into stores. But this new store was already in the works pre-COVID-19, said Nicole Wescoe, Whole Foods president of the Northeast region, in an interview. We started working on this over a year ago and it was really an opportunity for Amazon and Whole Foods Market to come together and create this vision for the future of grocery online,” Wescoe said. The company gave USA TODAY a behind-the-scenes look at the new Broo..

The JPMorgan report shows that the coronavirus pandemic is a factor that is strong enough to significantly dent earnings. JPM stock is in the red now. [contfnewc] Figures have started coming, showing an idea of how the years first quarter has been. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, financial markets crashed quite terribly as normal activity ground to a halt. Some of the worlds largest stocks crashed and a lot of wealth owned by the richest people was lost. With all of these losses still in view, JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), the largest bank in the U.S., has released a report, unsurprisingly disappointing estimates and investors. Meanwhile, the JPM stock price is falling. At the time of writing, the stock is trading at $97.05 (-1.15%). JPMorgans figures showed that the banks earnings were far less than general market estimates. For example, estimates put earnings per share at $1.84, much higher than JPMorgans reported 78 cents. Also, it announced a profit of $2.87 billion, whi..