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Amazon to hire 1,000 people for upcoming holiday …

FILE - Packages pass through a scanner at an Amazon fulfillment center, Aug. 3, 2017, in Baltimore. Amazon has been quietly raising the amount some customers need to spend on its site to get free shipping. To qualify for no-cost deliveries, some Amazon customers who don’t have Prime memberships now need to spend $35, up from $25 previously. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly slide despite …

A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 and New York Dow indexes at a securities firm Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Tokyo. Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday despite a Big Tech rally on Wall Street, as investors looked ahead to data on U.S. consumer prices set for later in the week. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

‘Dumb Money’ goes all in on the GameStop stock frenzy …

FILE - In this image from video provided by the House Financial Services Committee, Keith Gill, a GameStop investor, also known in social media forums as Roaring Kitty, testifies during a virtual hearing on GameStop in Washington, on Feb. 18, 2021. A new film based on the GameStop stock frenzy, "Dumb Money," is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. (House Financial Services Committee via AP, File)

Hostess is being acquired by JM Smucker in a deal valued …

FILE - A Hostess sign is shown on a closed retail outlet store in Garland, Texas, Jan. 11, 2012. Hostess, the maker of snack classics like Twinkies and HoHos, is being sold to J.M. Smucker in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $5.6 billion. Smucker, which makes everything from coffee to peanut butter and jelly, will pay $34.25 per share in cash and stock, and it will also pick up approximately $900 million in net debt. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)

South Dakota panel denies application for CO2 pipeline; …

A sign reading "No CO2, no eminent domain" stands along a rural road east of Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The sign is in opposition to Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network to carry carbon dioxide emissions from dozens of ethanol plants in five states to central North Dakota for permanent storage deep underground. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Smucker’s announces deal to acquire Hostess

Grocery delivery company Instacart files for long-awaited …

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Stock market today: Wall Street climbs to clinch …

Specialist Meric Greenbaum works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech shows on a television screen. Stocks are holding on to gains after Powell said more rate hikes could be on the way to continue the Fed's fight against inflation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Economy’s solid growth could require more Fed hikes …

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes a break outside of Jackson Lake Lodge during the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium near Moran in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Amber Baesler)

GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit agrees to cut …

FILE - A Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV in Detroit is displayed, Jan. 16, 2019. The California state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit to reduce its fleet in San Francisco after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Pfizer 2Q numbers tumble and COVID-19 vaccine, treatment …

FILE - A man walks by Pfizer headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in New York. Pfizer reports reports earnings on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

CVS to lay off 5,000 workers in cost-cutting move

JetBlue warns of a possible 3Q loss as it ends a …

FILE - A JetBlue airplane is shown at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, March 16, 2017. JetBlue said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, that its shares are losing altitude and warns that third-quarter and full-year results will be worse than it had previously expected. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its …

A man waits at an intersection near monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, boosted by market optimism set off by a Wall Street rally despite lingering worries about inflation and regional growth. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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