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TIGARD, Ore. — Great Ajax: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — From Renaissance art to couture and celebrity interruptions. Paris Fashion Week shows continued in vibrant form to present the final trends for fall-winter 2023-2024. The once-street and urban Matthew M. Williams uttered a word not often heard describing his Givenchy designs: Elegant. Williams went back to

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $3.77 billion. The San Jose, California-based company said it had profit of $8.80 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $10.33 per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Zscaler Inc. (ZS) on Thursday reported a loss of $57.5 million in its fiscal second quarter. The San Jose, California-based company said it had a loss of 40 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, came to 37 cents per

DURHAM, N.C. — Asensus Surgical: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Technologies: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Costco: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials have begun investigating a close call between planes in Boston, and they provided new details Thursday about a harrowing incident at an airport in Texas. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not determined exactly how close a FedEx cargo plane passed over the top of

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Puma Biotechnology Inc. (PBYI) on Thursday reported a loss of $5.6 million in its fourth quarter. The Los Angeles-based company said it had a loss of 12 cents per share. The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $65.7 million in the period. For the year, the company reported

EVANSTON, Ill. — Fidus Investment: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York is doubling the number of licenses it’s awarding for a first round of legal marijuana shops. Regulators announced Thursday that they plan to award 300 such licenses, rather than 150. Still, only a fraction of the recreational marijuana dispensaries already authorized have opened so

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed Thursday as more data show the job market remains strong and worries about interest rates continue to weigh on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in afternoon trading after paring a larger morning loss. The Nasdaq composite was also down,

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong firefighters battled a huge blaze that broke out at a construction site in a popular shopping district. The fire forced around 170 people to evacuate nearby buildings. The fire erupted at the Mariners’ Club redevelopment project at 11 p.m. Thursday in the densely populated

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — From Renaissance art to couture and celebrity interruptions. Paris Fashion Week shows continued in vibrant form to present the final trends for fall-winter 2023-2024. The once-street and urban Matthew M. Williams uttered a word not often heard describing his Givenchy designs. Elegant. Williams went back to

By CARLA BRIDI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time in over a year, according to data released Thursday by the country’s statistics institute. That represented the continuation of a downturn that is expected to complicate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian prosecutors have closed a COVID-19 investigation that accuses officials of wrongdoing for failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the pandemic to the northern city of Bergamo and adjacent industrial valleys. Prosecutor Antonio Chiappani told Radio 24 on Thursday that “our aim

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result to be overturned a day after the country announced its new president-elect. Third-place Labour Party candidate Peter Obi said at a news conference in the capital on Thursday that “we won the election and we will prove

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — “If I hadn’t been a girl, I’d have been a drag queen.” Dolly Parton has uttered those words famously and often. But if she really were a drag queen, one of Tennessee’s most famous daughters would likely be out of a job under

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Greenpeace environmental group says that wastewater discharge from Poland’s coal mines was most likely responsible for the 2022 massive fish die-off in the Oder River. Greenpeace Poland also warned that the situation may reoccur this year and also hit Poland’s largest river the Vistula if the government and the coalmining industry

By MAE ANDERSON and TED SHAFFREY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent winter weekday at Penn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine, men hop onto shoeshine chairs and pull out newspapers and phones to read while shoeshiners get to work applying polish and elbow grease to loafers, boots and other leather