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The online-payment platform Zelle is extremely popular with consumers, which helps explain why it’s also become a hit with scammers.

Stocks staged a solid rebound and bonds fell after the latest U.S. labor-market reading helped ease fears about a more pronounced slowdown in the world’s largest economy.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares tumbled to their lowest level ever after the entertainment giant took a $9.1 billion charge for writing down the value of its traditional TV networks.

Microsoft Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. are combining their government cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools in a bid to sell software, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, to US defense and intelligence agencies for top-secret tasks.

Your monthly mortgage payment will probably be the largest line item in your household budget. Impacting the size of those payments is the sort of mortgage you choose — particularly a 15-year vs. a 30-year mortgage. A shorter schedule requires larger payments but allows you to pay off the loan faster, while a 30-year schedule lowers your monthly payments but costs more in interest in the long term.

CNN is once again merging into the FAST lane. CNN announced Wednesday it is launching CNN Originals, a new free ad-supported streaming television channel — called FAST for short — that will air shows from its library of original series, and plans to add more channels in the future.

U.S. 30-year mortgage rates plunged last week by the most in two years, reaching their lowest level since May 2023 and sparking a surge in refinancing applications.

Micron Technology Inc., citing a brighter outlook, is resuming a stock buyback program that it had suspended nearly two years ago during an industry downturn.

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines is now available on travel deal search engine Kayak, just a few months after it joined Google Flights. Southwest, which has traditionally held to keeping its airfares available on its website and mobile app, is doing away with the old practice and trying out search engines like Kayak. Beginning Aug. 5, Southwest’s airfares were integrated into Kayak’s travel website. ...

After years of losses totaling billions of dollars, Walt Disney Co.'s overall streaming business has reached profitability for the first time. Third-quarter results, however, were tempered by weakening demand at the company's key parks unit.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Waffle House is known for staying open when other restaurants and businesses don’t. The 24/7 breakfast chain’s reputation is so strong that there’s an established system used to determine a storm’s severity: the Waffle House Index. If the Waffle House is open, it’s a good sign. If not, things are pretty bad. A similar phenomenon of using a restaurant to judge a storm’s damage ...

A federal judge said Monday that Google broke the law to kneecap competition in web search in ways that entrenched the company’s power.

The US trade deficit narrowed in June for the first time in three months as the value of exports of goods and services increased by the most since earlier this year.

Seven months after an almost-new Boeing Co. 737 Max 9 aircraft lost a large fuselage panel during flight, US safety investigators are conducting an extensive hearing to uncover any remaining mysteries surrounding the accident that has plunged the manufacturer into crisis.

A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet search, handing the Justice Department a landmark victory against Big Tech.

A sudden global panic is upending financial markets and cratering the value of stocks, currencies, even bitcoin - but economists say it’s not a surefire sign that the country is headed for a downturn.