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Bug Out branches out
MOSES LAKE — After a year of successfully fighting off bugs and weeds, Bug Out is expanding into helping things gr…
Earnings scheduled for the week of 1/13/2020
Major companies tentatively scheduled to post quarterly earnings next week:
Climate activists target Siemens over Australia coal project
BERLIN (AP) — The chief executive of Siemens said Friday that the German engineering company will review its involvement in a coal mine in Australia after climate activists called for it to pull out of the project.
Ghosn's lawyer slams minister's gaffe on proving innocence
TOKYO (AP) — A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe by the Japanese justice minister who said that Ghosn should “prove" his inno…
US employers expected to have added 160,000 jobs in December
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market appears to be entering 2020 on a solid footing.
After Super Bowl, sports books preparing for XFL bets
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — While many sports fans are picking NFL playoff teams to bet on, or marshaling their cash for the Super Bowl, yet another opportunity to wager on football is right around the corner: the X…
Water company pleads guilty to hazardous waste violations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California company that produces Crystal Geyser bottled water pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally storing and transporting hazardous waste and agreed to a $5 million fine, federal prosecutors …
France sees more nationwide protests of pension changes
PARIS (AP) — French rail workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and others joined a fourth day of nationwide protests and strikes Thursday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the pension system.
Markets-At-A-Glance
NEW YORK (AP) — A snapshot of major stock and commodities market indicators Thursday:
BC-PLATINUM
NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Fri:
Close
CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Fri.:
San Francisco's Beefeater doorman retires after 43 years
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another bit of old, quirky San Francisco will be no more when Tom Sweeney finally hangs up his white pressed collar and signature Beefeater jacket this weekend after more than four decades of o…
BC-Index fut.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock index futures Thursday:
BC-Indexes Daily
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes Thursday
How major US stock indexes fared on Thursday
Stocks around the world climbed on Thursday, and U.S. indexes hit records as markets continued a rally sparked after the United States and Iran appeared to step away from the edge of war.
BC-Wheat KX
CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Fri: