AP National Business

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers’ ability to speculate on the stock market. Public anger over congressional stock trading has mounted since the first tremors of the pandemic. That’s when lawmakers stirred outrage by collectively buying and selling millions of dollars

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to ease food shortages in Afghanistan. Trucks sent by Afghanistan under the deal with New Delhi will be allowed to collect wheat from India via Pakistan’s Wagha border beginning on Feb. 21. Officials said Monday the

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower, echoing a decline on Wall Street, amid concerns about rising tensions in Ukraine over thousands of Russian troops that have been amassing on their border. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo, Sydney and Hong Kong, but rose in Shanghai. Japan reported its economy

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A fire-resistant roof, at least 5 feet of defensible space around a home, a clearly defined evacuation route in a neighborhood and the removal of vegetation overgrowth in a community are some of the new statewide insurance standards to reduce the wildfire risk of older homes. Dubbed “Safer from Wildfires,” the

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its economy grew at a 5.4% annual pace in the last quarter, helped by improved consumer spending and exports. Data released Tuesday showed the world’s third-largest economy grew 1.7% in 2021, marking its first annual expansion in three years. In quarterly terms, the

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An environmental conservation group and two dozen outdoor recreation companies, including Patagonia, REI and The North Face, say they will boycott the Outdoor Retailer trade show if it’s moved from Denver back to Salt Lake City. The group called The Conservation Alliance is accusing Utah’s leaders of

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar says it will not participate in this week’s meetings in Cambodia of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, spurning an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its chief diplomat. The decision to restrict Myanmar’s participation reflected a disagreement over Myanmar’s lack

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company placed a rare bet on a technology company late last year and it has already paid off in a big way. Berkshire Hathaway revealed in documents filed with regulators on Monday that it bought near 15 million shares in game publisher Activision

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The accounting firm that prepared former President Donald Trump’s annual financial statements says the documents, used to secure lucrative loans and burnish Trump’s image as a wealthy businessman, “should no longer be relied upon” after investigators said they found evidence he and his company regularly

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City fired more than a thousand workers who failed to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The mayor’s office said Monday that 1,430 workers  lost their jobs, representing less than 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce.  The city in late January sent

By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is invoking emergency powers to weaken the protests by demonstrators who are paralyzing the capital city of Ottawa and blocking border crossings. The protests over over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions have been raging for more than two weeks.

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. health official suggests there may never be a test to measure whether someone who had COVID-19 is still infectious. Dr. Bruce Tromberg is in charge of fixing the country’s long-troubled COVID-19 testing system. His division at the National Institutes of Health controls $1.5 billion

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A metallurgist in Washington state was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and a $50,000 fine Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Aerojet Rocketdyne, 3M fall; Splunk, TreeHouse Foods rise.

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks fell on Wall Street Monday as the U.S. moved to close its embassy in Ukraine amid heightened tensions over the thousands of Russian troops that have been amassing on the border. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% after having been down as much as 1.2%.

By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A government official in Canada says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke emergency powers across all of Canada to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. For the past two

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A worsening inflation picture has touched off a range of opinions from the Federal Reserve’s policymakers about just how fast they should raise interest rates beginning at their next meeting in March. James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, reiterated his call

By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A government official in Canada says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke emergency powers to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. For the past two weeks, hundreds and sometimes