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Southwest Airlines' new boarding process may be just like all the other airlines now, but it's still taking the carrier and its customers some time to ​adjust.

Oil prices traded higher March 3 as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war widened, setting up steeper prices for some of the items American consumers depend on.

Wall Street's main indexes fell on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 hitting its lowest in over two months, as investors braced for the impact of a widening Middle East conflict on oil prices, inflation and global trade.

SAN JOSE — eBay has slashed 271 jobs in the Bay Area, primarily at the tech titan’s San Jose headquarters complex, the company reported. The eBay job cuts arrive on the heels of the net loss of 27,300 tech jobs in the Bay Area during 2025, according to Beacon Economics industry estimates that were derived from the state Employment Development Department’s official reports. The tech job cuts in ...

Global stock markets wavered Monday, while oil and gold prices jumped, as investors weighed the disruption to energy supplies after strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, and retaliation by Iran against targets across the Persian Gulf.

The Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger will create a combined entity that would have a net debt of about $79 billion, Paramount said on Monday, ruling out any plan to divest or spinoff the cable assets.

Amazon.com Inc. may be a leader in the artificial intelligence race, but investors are increasingly unwilling to pay up for the cost of maintaining that position.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. heads to a jury trial on Monday over claims by the US Justice Department and more than three dozen states that the nation’s largest concert promoter is illegally monopolizing the live music industry and should be forced to shed its Ticketmaster unit.

 David’s Bridal, the King of Prussia-based wedding dress retailer, is getting into the documentary business. This week, the company will drop the first episode in its new series "Breaking Bridal," which follows real-life couples and focuses on unique elements of their weddings.

Two brothers living in East Africa were faced with a difficult decision in 2009: continue a life of forced servitude or move to a new country for a fresh start.

McDonald’s is gearing up to celebrate one of its favorite holidays: National Egg McMuffin Day.

Like Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD) designs and markets semiconductor chips, such as central processing units (CPUs) and graphics accelerator cards. It has several notable brands under its umbrella, including Ryzen CPUs, Epyc CPUs and the Instinct GPU (graphics processing unit) line for data centers and cloud servers.

“I’m standing there watching my house burn, and I’m like, oh my goodness, this is everything that I worked for.”

Inland Northwest golfers can start retrieving their clubs from winter storage.

Fintech company Block said Thursday that it's cutting more than 4,000 workers or nearly half of its workforce as artificial intelligence disrupts the way people work. The Oakland parent company of payment services Square and Cash App saw its stock surge by more than 23% in after-hours trading after making the layoff announcement. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and head of Block, said in a post on ...

U.S. producer prices accelerated in January, with the cost of goods outside the volatile food and energy category increasing by the most in more than three and a half years as businesses passed on import tariffs and raised prices at the start of 2026.

Wall Street's main indexes dropped on Friday as AI anxiety hammered technology stocks, with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 on pace for their steepest monthly loss since March 2025, while hotter-than-expected inflation data also weakened sentiment.

Netflix jumped more than 10% on Friday as investors applauded its decision to exit the race for Warner Bros Discovery, a months-long bidding war with Paramount Skydance for some of Hollywood's most prized assets.