Washington Times - Business

• Why Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' became so popular -- and stayed that way

  12-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 23

  If anything about Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" annoys you, best to avoid shopping malls now. Or the radio. Maybe music...

• Crowds at airports and on highways this holiday season are expected to be even bigger than last year

  12-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 25

  More Americans are expected to fly or drive far from home over Christmas than did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel.

• A day of two prime ministers in Poland begins the delayed transition to centrist, pro-EU government

  12-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 18

  A power transition began Monday in the Polish parliament, where the outgoing national conservative leaders made their farewell statements as a...

• Fed is set to leave interest rates unchanged while facing speculation about eventual rate cuts

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 19

  With inflation edging closer to the Federal Reserve's 2% target, its policymakers are facing -- and in some cases fueling -- hopes that they will...

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• Thousands of demonstrators from Europe expected in Brussels to protest austerity measures in the EU

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 20

  Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Brussels on Tuesday to protest what they perceive as new austerity measures as the 27 European...

• EPA shielding how groups spent Biden's cash bonanza for environmental justice

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 33

  The Environmental Protection Agency is keeping Congress in the dark about how millions of dollars from President Biden's COVID-19 stimulus spending...

• Petrochemical giant's salt mine ruptures in northeastern Brazil. Officials warn of collapse

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 22

  A mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem ruptured Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city's civil defense...

• Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' is No. 1 at the box office, a first for the Japanese anime master

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 32

  For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki's decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office....

• Deal rockets Ohtani into 'stratosphere all his own'

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 22

  Shohei Ohtani's jaw-dropping $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to other contracts for the world's...

• At U.N. climate talks, cameras are everywhere. Many belong to Emirati company with a murky history

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 28

  At the United Nations' COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried.

• Brazil's Lula takes heat on oil plans at U.N. climate talks, turnaround after hero status last year

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 27

  Fresh off election victory, a year ago Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was the star of the annual U.N. climate talks.

• Military-themed brewery wants to open in a big Navy town. An ex-SEAL is getting in the way

  11-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 23

  A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a much different fight in Virginia, where plans for a military-themed...