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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan and Britain have struck what they are calling a historic accord on cooperation in defense, clean energy and semiconductors. The pact was announced as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks ahead of the Group of Seven summit

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting higher Thursday after more companies reported better profits than expected, while yields climb after a Federal Reserve official cautioned the end to its interest-rate hikes may not come as soon as Wall Street hoped. The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher in

By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden is in Japan for global diplomacy in a nation that has already tightened its economic and national security alliance with the U.S. He met privately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before joining the Group of Seven gathering

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers are debating a first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine to protect newborns by immunizing their moms late in pregnancy. The virus fills hospitals with wheezing babies each winter. Pfizer’s research shows a late-pregnancy shot is 82% effective at preventing severe RSV in the infants’ first months

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The stubbornness of high inflation is dividing the Federal Reserve over how to manage interest rates in the coming months, leaving the outlook for the Fed’s policies cloudier than at any time since it unleashed a streak of 10 straight rate hikes beginning in March 2022.

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week following a previous spike that many analysts took as a sign that higher interest rates were finally cooling the labor market. It turns out the recent jump in jobless benefit applications was largely due to fraudulent applications in Massachusetts, where claims

By LUCA BRUNO Associated Press FAENZA, Italy (AP) — Rescue crews worked Thursday to reach towns and villages in northern Italy that were cut off from highways, electricity and cell phone service following heavy rains and flooding, as farmers warned of “incalculable” losses and authorities began mapping out cleanup and reconstruction plans. The death toll

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — U.K. telecom company BT Group plans to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade and replace some of them with artificial intelligence. BT has 130,000 workers including both staff and contractors. The company said in its latest earnings report Thursday that the

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein when he was a client, according to lawyers for women who say they were abused by the late financier. A

By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street pointed modestly higher before the opening bell Thursday on hopes U.S. political leaders can reach an agreement to avoid a potentially disastrous default on government debt. Futures for the benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose less than

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To Wall Street’s relief, the end appears in sight for the Federal Reserve’s sharp hikes to interest rates. The hikes are supposed to lower inflation, but they also hurt the economy and drag down stock prices. History suggests that if the Fed pauses next month,

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including

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