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US banking regulators USA They are about to ease the restrictions created after the financial crisis, a fact that triggered a surge in bank stocks on Thursday. Officials with the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission said in a call that they are loosening the restrictions of the so-called Volcker Rule, allowing …

“For us, we feel like this is what we do: We put on NBA basketball,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on ESPN 10 days ago when asked about the league’s plan to resume its suspended season. “We believe that, for the country, it will be a respite [from] the enormous …

When Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano started listening to fireworks in late May, she discovered that celebratory sounds were welcome. But for the next few weeks, they rang closer and closer to their three-bedroom apartment in Sunset Park, until the booms started shaking the walls and the apartment filled with smoke. “My roommate …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Orders to U.S. factories for high-value products recovered last month from a disastrous April and March as the U.S. economy slowly reopened. The Commerce Department said orders for manufactured goods meant to last at least three years soared 15.8% in May after falling 18.1% in April and …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits in the United States declined just last week, and the economy contracted in the first three months of the year, evidence of continued economic damage caused by the viral pandemic. The economy, which contracted 5% in the January-March quarter, …