Economics

Michigan regulators on Thursday approved a $100 million electric rate hike for Consumers Energy, authorizing the state's second-largest utility to bill the average residential customer about $9 more per month starting in January.The increase for residents is nearly 12 percent after factoring in…

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Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

How does the COVID-19 market crash compare to previous financial crises? We navigate different contextual factors impacting crashes.

How oil prices went negative: this explainer shows how a collapse in demand, a Saudi-Russia price war, and oversupply led to futures prices going wonky.

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Michigan lawmakers and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer agreed to a $465 million pandemic spending plan, including relief payments to businesses and workers struggling to stay afloat because of the coronavirus and government restrictions to curb its spread.The legislation, which passed 35-2 in the Senate late…

Michigan builders are prioritizing the construction of higher value homes to gain more profit, a market driven in part by the pandemic

U.S. delivery firm FedEx Corp on Thursday said quarterly profit almost doubled after rate hikes and spiking volume helped lower the cost of delivering pandemic-fueled e-commerce purchases to residential addresses.

The lawsuit marks the first major antitrust litigation against a technology company since the DOJ's case against Microsoft in the late '90s.

The lawsuit is yet another legal battle for Google, embroiled in state and federal antitrust scrutiny.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report...

Michigan public health officials expect to receive 29 percent fewer doses of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine next week, an unexplained drop in supplies on just the second full week of the state's mass inoculation of health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Lynn Sutfin, a…

John Stossel and David Henderson discuss how Canada fixed its debt problem.

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The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will keep buying government bonds until the economy makes “substantial” progress

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For many Michigan families, mental illness and developmental disabilities are a fact of life. Their daily activities include providing high levels of personal care for a loved one and, very often, they find they can't do it all on their own.That is where our state's direct care workers come in…

The Fed could disappoint at least some market pros who are expecting immediate changes in its bond buying program.

The U.S. Postal Service predicts this week will be the busiest time of the season for mailing, shipping and delivery. It’s also turning out to be a season

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The Federal Reserve’s policymakers face an unusual conundrum as they meet this week