NAPA VALLEY, California — Before it ditched cars for a lineup of engaging SUVs and trucks like F-150 Raptors, Bronco Sport Sasquatches and Maverick Lobos, Ford made affordable hellions like the Focus RS that you could take big game-hunting with 300-plus turbo-4 horsepower, nimble handling, and drift mode. The Focus RS exited the market in 2018...Read more

After the 10-year Treasury yield rose as high as 5.34% for the first time since 2002, stock traders are fiercely debating when the selloff in bonds will start to trigger pain for a resilient U.S. stock market.

Under the surface, however, the spike in rates is already wreaking havoc.

While the S&P 500 Index is less than 2% from a record, ...Read more

Year-over-year U.S. sales for Stellantis NV dipped slightly in the third quarter of 2026, according to company data released Oct. 1, as the struggling transatlantic automaker continues to chase an elusive turnaround.

The Jeep and Chrysler parent company sold 324,277 vehicles in the quarter spanning July through September. That was a decline of ...Read more

When Brandon Hurst first decided to sell his plants on TikTok Live in 2023, the 32-year-old Los Angeles resident didn't know what to expect. He said he thought he could sell at least 30 plants, but instead sold 250.

Now, three years later, the internet creator, who goes by Brandon the Plant Guy, sells up to 5,000 plants a week, works out of a 3...Read more

MIAMI — When South Florida billionaires Ken Griffin and Stephen Ross gathered with business leaders in February, they made a powerful pitch for a different kind of South Florida.

Through a statewide initiative powered by the advisory group Florida Council of 100, Griffin and Ross called on CEOs, billionaires and entrepreneurs to bring and ...Read more

Mortgage rates surged to the highest level since November 2023, further straining a U.S. housing market already hampered by high borrowing costs.

The average for a 30-year, fixed loan jumped 25 basis points from a week earlier to 7.28%, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday. The weekly increase was the biggest since October 2022. A year ago,...Read more

U.S. companies announced the fewest number of job cuts for any September since 2022, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

Employers last month announced 43,281 job cuts, a near 20% decrease from a year earlier. So far this year, planned staffing reductions are down almost 40% from the same nine months in ...Read more

Toyota Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. are pulling closer to Detroit’s marquee automakers in the U.S. auto market, boosted by demand for gas-electric hybrids and affordable vehicles as average car payments rise well above $800 a month.

Toyota’s sales rose slightly to more than 633,000 vehicle in the third quarter, including its Lexus ...Read more

DETROIT — Martha Firestone Ford, 101, isn't looking for much more than an AM radio in her vehicle, her son Bill Ford said during a panel Tuesday with executives from Google, Time magazine and United Airlines.

"I don't have a lot of 101-year-old customers," said Ford Motor Co.'s executive chair, joking during the panel at Michigan Central in ...Read more

For the second year in a row, Ford Motor Co. is sounding the alarm on a growing shortage of skilled trades workers in the United States.

"Here's the reality: We need to fill 1.7 million job openings in the trades every year over the next 10 years. Every year, 1.7 million," Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at the company's ...Read more

Stellantis NV CEO Antonio Filosa on Wednesday, Sept. 30 said the maker of Jeep and Ram sees an opportunity to cash in with its new compact pickup, extended-range powertrains and vehicles priced at under $40,000 in the U.S. market.

During an auto industry conference in Detroit, Filosa cited the segments as North American growth opportunities for...Read more

Hormel Foods is branching into a new — and wildly popular — meat category with a deal to acquire a chicken company for more than $1 billion.

The Austin, Minnesota-based meatpacker is buying Brakebush Brothers, whose portfolio includes pre-prepared breaded tenderloins, chicken breasts and nuggets.

Hormel already sells protein staples such ...Read more

The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters, a $2.4 billion project that became a flashpoint between the Fed and the Trump administration as the president pushed for lower interest rates last year.

The findings came in a report released ...Read more

Anthropic disclosed that its advanced artificial intelligence technology poses "existential risks to humanity" in an initial public offering document.

As the company prepares for the largest listing in history at $2 trillion, its IPO prospectus has been circulated among investors and viewed by Reuters and other news outlets.

This comes after ...Read more