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Mortgage rates rose for the third straight week last week, matching a 22-year high. As a result, mortgage demand dropped as well.Total mortgage application volume was…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bellTarget – Target shares popped nearly 8% before the market opened even as the retailer slashed its full-year…

Rural Mingo County, West Virginia, is one of America’s poorest counties. Nearly one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, only a third of its…

Target on Wednesday missed quarterly sales expectations and slashed its full-year forecast, as it again had trouble convincing shoppers to buy more than the necessities.The big-box…

UK inflation slowed sharply for the second month in a row, falling to a 17-month low in July, official data showed Wednesday. Consumer prices rose 6.8%…

Tencent on Wednesday reported a weaker-than-expected surge in profit for the second quarter, as cost-cutting measures began to pay off and sales rose across the company’s…

Female reproductive health experts are calling on Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to rethink its restrictions on reproductive health content. The company has…

BEIJING — Without more stimulus, China is increasingly likely to miss its growth target of around 5% this year, economists said.The country on Tuesday suspended releases…

The US government plans to rein in the vast data broker industry with new, privacy-focused regulations that aim to safeguard millions of Americans’ personal information from…

LONDON — U.K. headline inflation cooled sharply in July to an annual 6.8%, but the core consumer price index remained unchanged, posing a potential headache for…