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The average mortgage interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage last week was 6.30%, a decrease of 0.14 percentage points from the previous week's 6.44%, according to Bankrate.

It’d be reasonable to think Washington’s space economy has a lot riding on Boeing’s Starliner, the spacecraft that left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station and headed back to Earth with an empty cabin earlier this month.

Online services giant Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) (Nasdaq: GOOGL) is built to thrive in a variety of economic environments, thanks to its ultra-flexible umbrella organization, which allows it to expand in many industries.

McDonald’s Corp. is inching closer to a future where human cashiers aren’t necessary.

One of history’s original big tech firms has been having a quiet renaissance that’s pushed its shares near their first record in more than a decade.

After spending more than a week trying to secure a meeting with the president of the United Steelworkers union, Nippon Steel’s Takahiro Mori finally got an answer. But it was not the one he wanted.

Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill and Google lost its challenge over a €2.4 billion fine for abusing its market power, in a double boost to the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech.

China’s exports unexpectedly accelerated in August, reaching their highest value in nearly two years and providing a rare boost to an economy weighed down by deflationary pressures.

Korea Electric Power Corp. is looking to bolster ties with the US as it attempts to sell more atomic power stations overseas, according to Chief Executive Officer Kim Dong-cheol.

Spokane business leaders used the impending closure of a downtown restaurant Monday as a call to arms for elected leaders to begin finding a solution to the homelessness problem.

CUPERTINO, Calif. – For months now, Apple has been laying out its vision of how artificial intelligence will help users of its devices “get things done effortlessly.”

Discount retailer Big Lots announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing will result in more store closures beyond the 315 announced in early August, the company revealed in a statement posted on its website. The August announcement affected 26 of 106 Big Lots stores in Florida, including 10 of 17 operating in the tricounty region of South Florida. ...

Preliminary plans have been submitted to Spokane County to build a four-building, 32-unit multi-housing project on a street that represents the border of Spokane and Spokane County.