Business

• Revelers in Times Square welcome 2024 amid increased security, global tensions

  1-1-2024 Business Washington Times - Business 27

  New Year's Day arrived to cheers from thousands in New York's Times Square where a sparkling crystal ball descended to start 2024 with hope for some.

• Bangladesh court sentences Nobel laureate Yunus to 6 months in jail for violating labor laws

  1-1-2024 Business Washington Times - Business 23

  A labor court in Bangladesh's capital sentenced Monday Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country's...

• The Empire State rings in the new year with a pay bump for minimum-wage workers

  1-1-2024 Business Washington Times - Business 28

  New York's minimum-wage workers had more than just the new year to celebrate Monday, with a pay bump kicking in as the clock ticked over to 2024.

• ExxonMobil hands over operations at West Qurna 1 oilfield to PetroChina

  1-1-2024 Business NY Post - Business 19

  Senior Iraqi oil officials met with executives from ExxonMobil, PetroChina and Basra Oil Co on Monday at the West Qurna 1 field near Basra to mark...

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• Law firms switch headquarters along popular Midtown corridor

  1-1-2024 Business NY Post - Business 21

  Another major law firm lease just got signed on midtown Sixth Avenue that’s good news for Vornado Realty Trust and a rare, narrow ray of light for...

• More than 675K cans of baby formula recalled over bacterial infection risks

  1-1-2024 Business NY Post - Business 14

  Reckitt/Mead Johnson has recalled over 675,000 cans of its Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Powdered Infant Formula Products over risks that the product...

• Oregon newspaper stops presses, fires staff after worker accused of $70K embezzlement scheme

  1-1-2024 Business NY Post - Business 22

  A weekly newspaper in Oregon halted publication and laid off its entire 10-person staff three days before Christmas after an employee allegedly...

• Youtube star MrBeast rejects Elon Musk’s bid for him to upload videos to X

  1-1-2024 Business NY Post - Business 26

  MrBeast, the most followed YouTuber, rejected Elon Musk’s request to upload his hugely-popular videos to X because the mogul’s social media site...

• Why 2024 will be good — and possibly great — for investors

  31-12-2023 Business NY Post - Business 28

  My forecast: Moderate double-digit S&P 500 gains, with big growth stocks leading early, and likely twisting to value stock leadership late in...

• Embezzlement of Oregon weekly newspaper's funds forces it to lay off entire staff and halt print

  31-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 26

  An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee,...

• Year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

  31-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 32

  Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But...

• Ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries reaches Alaska, kept offshore for safety

  31-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 31

  A large cargo ship with a fire in its hold is being kept 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) offshore of an Alaska port as a precaution while efforts are...