The rest of the store would run heavily to canned goods, white bread and TV dinners. In the wider world things were even worse, for poverty and hunger were widespread.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday. Worries are building about a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a U.S. economy slowing because of households afraid to ...

(AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — Drops for Nvidia, Tesla and other former superstars dragged Wall Street lower on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Drops for Nvidia, Tesla and other former superstars dragged Wall Street lower on Wednesday. The S&P 500 sank 1.1% to break what had been a run of calmer trading. The Dow Jones ...

NEW YORK — Stocks rose in morning trading Monday as Wall Street tries to navigate through the uncertainty of a trade war. The S&P 500 jumped 1.6%. It is coming off its first winning week after a ...

Investors who bought Argentina’s 100-year dollar bond were laughed at in 2017 for their naiveté in buying such a long bond from a serial defaulter. Sure enough, the country failed to pay after ...