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It's tough to cite Dollar Tree as the best retailer for saving money these days. While the discount retailer is famously known for its $1.25 pricing, an increasing number of online marketplaces
The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a billion dollars in the wake of hurdles set up by DOGE.
Major stock indexes were slightly lower on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on imports from Canada fanned worries about trade tensions, with the Canadian dollar down against the greenback.
Chinese traders are pulling back from the dollar, helping ease a shortage that has rattled the banking system and setting the yuan up for further gains.
A troubling shift in the dollar’s trading relationship with U.S. stocks has eased somewhat over the past few weeks.
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The Canadian dollar edged higher against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday but the move was modest as the greenback notched broad-based gains and after new U.S. trade tariffs cast doubt about prospects of a trade deal this month between Canada and the United States.
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The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared three deals that were together worth $63 billion in June, illustrating how FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and DOJ antitrust head Gail Slater are taking a different tack from their predecessors.
Americans traveling overseas face higher costs as the U.S. dollar weakens against foreign currencies, squeezing budgets for hotels, food and transportation abroad.
NPR reported that Harvard University economics professor Kenneth Rogoff said the dollar hasn't weakened this much since then-President Richard Nixon canceled the convertibility of the dollar to gold in the 1970s.