Nov Financial News

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years

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Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose this week to its highest level since late November, reflecting a recent uptick in the bond yields that lenders use as a guide to price home loans

revealed he was practicing under a name he adopted following his conviction for helping Iran evade sanctions.Dr. Aurash Cohen is no longer entitled to practice in the province, according to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, which said it cancelled his certification on Nov.

bird flu on Wednesday, involving a Louisiana resident, as California declared a state of emergency to address the escalating outbreak.The Louisiana patient was hospitalized in critical condition after suspected contact with an infected backyard flock, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Svetlana Dali certainly is tenacious.The alleged Delta Air Lines stowaway is, once again, making headlines — this time for trying to sneak her way into Canada, reportedly cutting off her ankle monitor before boarding a Greyhound bus to the Great White North.Dali, a 57-year-old Russian national, was taken into custody in Paris late last month after she snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight at New York’s JFK International Airport without a boarding pass on Nov. 26 and flew all the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, apparently concealing herself by spending long periods of time in the plane’s multiple bathrooms.She was detained when authorities discovered she didn’t have a valid visa to enter the country, French National Police said at the time.After two unsuccessful attempts to deport her back to the U.S.

A Russian woman who was arrested after she stowed away on a flight from New York City to Paris last month has been arrested again in Buffalo

Canada Post workers are set to return to their routes on Dec. 17, following a decisive ruling by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). But as the clock ticks toward the holidays, Canadians are left wondering: what happens to the mountains of undelivered mail, t he fate of delayed Christmas packages, and the unresolved contract negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)? Here are answers to some of Canadians’ most pressing questions: 

A month-long Canada Post strike is set to end on Tuesday, after the federal labour relations board has ordered postal workers to return to work, the Crown corporation said.

inflation eased to 1.89 per cent on an annual basis in November from 2.36 per cent in October. The wholesale inflation, measured using the Wholesale Price Index, was expected to moderate to 2.20 per cent, according to a Reuters poll. India’s retail inflation eased to 5.48 per cent in November, after breaching the RBI's 6 per cent upper tolerance band in October, as the arrival of fresh produce helped moderate soaring vegetable prices.

Officials say roughly 70,000 gallons of oil from a pipeline spilled into the ground in Wisconsin

Serbia's president says the United States plans to introduce sanctions against Serbia’s main gas supplier that is controlled by Russia

The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish

(Bloomberg) — The Canadian government asked an independent labor board to order 55,000 Canada Post Corp. workers back to the job, a move that’s expected to end a strike that disrupted mail service for nearly a month during the busy holiday season.

The Commerce Department releases its monthly snapshot of U.S. retail sales Tuesday

OTTAWA — The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company’s layoffs has been resolved, calling it an important victory for workers’ rights.

Gold prices were steady on Friday as investors refrained from making big bets, with attention turning to the Federal Reserve's upcoming decision on interest rates at next week's meeting.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits jumped to their highest level in two months last week but remain low relative to historical standards

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons investigation in Los Angeles, has been found safe, police said Wednesday.Kobayashi vanished last month in Los Angeles. Other details about her disappearance, as well as where and how she was found, were not immediately available Wednesday, but police previously said she had voluntarily crossed the border into Mexico.“We are happy to learn that Hannah has been found safe,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.

inflation that could provide clues on the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. The Australian dollar sagged near a four-month low after a dovish tilt to the central bank's policy outlook a day earlier. That also weighed on New Zealand's kiwi, which languished near a one-year trough.