By KEN SWEET WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle a laundry list of charges that it harmed consumers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages, as well as incorrectly applied overdraft fees against savings and checking accounts. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — State and federal officials are warning horse owners not to feed their animals Top of the Rockies brand alfalfa cubes after nearly 100 horses developed neurologic illnesses — 45 of which have died or been euthanized. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the warning Saturday. The agency said it’s working […]

(Reuters) -Many of the world’s big bond fund managers, from BlackRock to Vanguard, are optimistic that sovereign debt markets have turned a corner after a rout in 2022 with peak inflation and interest rates finally in sight.FILE PHOTO: A screen displays Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaking as a trader works on the floor of […]

Claudia Morales, a floral manager at Safeway in Colorado Springs, thought about her two children in high school when she first learned about the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons. “What happens if I lose my job? Do they get to go to college? Maybe, maybe not,” she said. The news “dropped on us like […]

The co-developer of a $300 million resort in Keystone says $8 million went missing from the project and the firm was then pushed out for revealing the other developer’s bank fraud. That developer accused of fraud says the other developer is a liar, sham and grifter who committed a federal crime while running a scam […]

The Mile High City’s 16th Street Mall is caught in an awkward rebirth. Plans for a structural revamping are attracting newcomers to the corridor, but the number of businesses forced to shutter by the pandemic-induced slowdown are a reminder that, in these uncertain economic times, even once-successful retail operations can fail. Two and a half […]

(Reuters) – The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Google on Friday, for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders.FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured during the company’s presentation of a detailed investment plan for Germany outside the Google office in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File PhotoThe U.S. political […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks declined on Friday, extending a global equity slide to a third day, as investors fretted over recession risks amid signs of further aggressive central bank policy tightening and new signs of a deep semiconductor slump.FILE PHOTO: People walk past a screen displaying the Hang Seng stock index outside Hong Kong […]

Friendship Bridge, a Lakewood-based nonprofit, aims to raise up rural Guatemalan women by providing economic opportunities, education and more – with the help of Coloradans. The nonprofit social enterprise, which mainly works with rural Guatemala’s indigenous women, provides financial services, health education, agriculture and business technical training and more. Coloradans can most easily support its […]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Grace Melt made her first visit to the Nourishing Hope food pantry on Chicago’s North Side in August. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she used food stamps issued by the federal government to buy groceries while out of work for a knee injury.People get free groceries at nourishing hope food pantry in Chicago, […]