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WASHINGTON -- Ever since the Federal Reserve signaled last fall that it was likely done raising interest rates, Wall Street traders, economists, car buyers, would-be homeowners — pretty much everyone — began obsessing over a single…

Poland is moving forward with setting vape restrictions in alignment with new European Union (EU) directives aimed at novel tobacco products. The legislation was recently unveiled by Dariusz Poznański, director of the Polish…

Youth smoking rates have decreased 53% from 1.9% to 0.9% in 2023, and the daily youth smoking rate fell over 50% faster since vaping became available in 2016.These past couple of weeks, multiple headlines about Australia’s…

Josh* reaches inside his pocket and is suddenly filled with a sense of panic.He's left his vape at home.The sudden dread he's feeling crystallises what he probably already knows, but has been unwilling to admit.He is addicted.Forgetting…

Despite many corporations pushing to "RTO," or return to office, commercial office landlords still struggle to keep existing tenants or attract new ones. A 2024 CommercialEdge report found that almost…

Paramount Global (PARA) shares skyrocketed more than 10% in early trading on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported media mogul Byron Allen made a $14.3 billion bid to buy all of Paramount's outstanding shares.According to the report, Allen…

by Will Kessler   The U.S. added 336,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September as the unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists had anticipated that the country would…

Suicide rates among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 soared in 2020 to ten times the rate of 2006 even though rates did not trend upward in the general U.S. population, according to an analysis published Monday.…

by Scott McClallen   For the first time since the COVID pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the fiscal year 2022 national payment error rate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The PER measures how…

by Brett Rowland   The median existing-home price for all housing types declined 3.1% in May from the same month in the prior year – the biggest drop in more than a decade. The national median existing-home price was $396,100 in May,…