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Helen of Troy Sold $2.2 Billion of Goods in Its 2022 Fiscal Year and $1.8 Billion Last Year. Spectrum Brands Says That Is Why $37 a Share Is Enough.
Texas and Louisiana Account for 46 Per Cent of This Year's $230 Billion Rise in U.S. Exports
How Washington Ran a $404 Billion Deficit in the First Month of Fiscal 2027: Customs Down $12 Billion, Defense and Medicare Up $51 Billion
Producer Prices Are Up 6.5 Per Cent in a Year, the Most Since 2022, Even as Raw Materials Fell 3.1 Per Cent in October
Jobless Benefit Rolls Are Back to Their 2019 Share of the Workforce, Even as the Unemployment Rate Sits at 4.1 Per Cent
42 Gigawatts of Gas-Power Orders Carried Siemens Energy to a Record Year, While Orders at Its Wind Business Fell 37 Per Cent
Did Britain's Economy Grow as Fast as the Bank of England Expected? Yes, by 0.7 Per Cent, Though the Bank's Own Survey Gauge Pointed to 0.2
Where Hancock Whitney and Trustmark Overlap: 14 Counties, First Place in Mississippi and One Alabama County Over the Antitrust Screen
China's Factory-Gate Prices Rose 5.7 Per Cent in a Year, All of It From Mines, Fuel and Materials. U.S. Prices for Chinese Imports Are Up 3.1.
Seven Days Before LCI Industries Votes on Patrick, Its Board Has Turned Down a Second Cash Bid From Monomoy
Washington's Oil Forecasters Have Raised Their 2027 Brent Price Four Months Running, From $65 to $86 a Barrel
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The NumbersU.S. Airlines Had 37 Accidents in the First Ten Months of 2025, the Most Since at Least 2008. The Count for 2026 Is 20.
We counted every accident the NTSB has logged for airlines flying under Part 121 of the federal rules since 2008, sorted them by type and set them against passenger numbers. Last year was an outlier. This year so far is not.
The air traffic control tower at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu in May 2025. File photograph.
The National Transportation Safety Board keeps a public database of every civil aviation accident it investigates in the United States. The version posted on 1 November 2026 lists 20 accidents involving U.S. airline flights between 1 January and 28 October this year. For the same ten months of 2025 it lists 37, the highest figure for that stretch in any year since the file begins in 2008.
So is American air travel getting less safe? On the board's own records, 2025 was the worst year for airline accidents since at least 2008, but 2026 is running below the long-run norm: 20 accidents to the end of October against an average of 23.4 for 2008 to 2024, and no deaths aboard an airliner.
That is a count, and counts of rare events move around. The more useful questions are what the accidents were, and whether last year's jump is the start of something or a bad year that has passed.
Money
Savers Cashed In $1.2 Billion of I Bonds in October, the Most Since January 2025, Just Before the Fixed Rate Rose to 1.40 Per Cent
Anyone holding an I bond bought between May 2020 and October 2022 has a fixed rate of zero.
Business
Americans Have Filed 13 Per Cent More Business Applications This Year. Filings From Firms Planning to Pay Wages Fell Everywhere but Oklahoma.
The headline series counts every new tax ID, from a payroll employer to a one-person side business.
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Infrastructure Everybody Depends On Should Not Be Owned by a Competitor
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You Cannot Delegate the Thing You Have Never Done
Money
Checks Cleared by the Federal Reserve Are Down 84 Per Cent Since 1999, and Next Year Its Fees Will Cover Only 79 Per Cent of What They Cost to Clear
The Fed considered how far to step back from checks and decided to stay.
Which States' Electricity Prices Rose Most in a Year? Hawaii's, by 22 Per Cent, While Connecticut's Fell 19 Per Cent
The national average hides two different stories.
Archrock Will Pay Up to $450 Million for HiVolt, a West Texas Oilfield Power Supplier Whose Price Rests on Earnings Due in 2028
Archrock has bought two compression fleets in two years and priced both on horsepower already running.
The Treasury Sold the Same $125 Billion of Notes and Bonds This Week as Last November, but the Coupons Will Cost $1.26 Billion a Year More
Auction sizes did not move.
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A Jacksonville Doctor Charges $135 a Month, Makes House Calls and Answers His Phone. More Patients Want That Deal.
Personal Finance
Carilyn Marrero of CM Freedom Finance Earned More for Five Years and Stayed in Debt. Her Holiday Advice Starts With Habits, Not the Paycheck.
Personal Finance
Dasia Bobbs Built a Credit Repair Business. Her Biggest Lesson Is That a Cleaner Report Is Not a Safety Net.
Analysis
Democrats Win Control of the House and Senate, Ending Unified Republican Government. For Business, the First Test Is the 11 December Funding Deadline.
Small Business
Anatoly Zadorozhnyy of Marketing 1on1 Says Small Businesses Can Still Be Found When Search Turns Into AI Answers
Editor's Choice
Stocks Rose in the Year After 18 of the Last 19 Midterms, by Our Count. Congress Has 38 Days After Tuesday's Vote to Fund the Government.
We computed the market record ourselves, from a primary data series, and set it beside the calendar Congress faces once the votes are counted.
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Everything we have published, newest firstCalifornians Voted 60 Per Cent to Keep Taxing Top Earners and 53 Per Cent Against Taxing Billionaires' Wealth
California voters rejected Proposition 40, a one-time 5 per cent tax on billionaires' net worth, the Associated Press projected on Monday evening. With about 83 per cent of the expected vote counted, it trailed by 621,399 votes. On the same ballot, Proposition 3, which makes the state's higher income tax rates on top earners permanent, passed with 60.5 per cent.
Consumer Credit Growth Picked Up for a Third Straight Quarter, to a 4.2 Per Cent Rate: Over the Past Year, Borrowing Still Grew Less Than Prices
U.S. consumer credit grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.2 per cent in the third quarter, to $5.22 trillion, the Federal Reserve said on Friday. Revolving credit, mostly card balances, jumped at a 14.5 per cent rate in September after falling in August. Over 12 months the total rose about 3 per cent, less than the 3.7 per cent rise in consumer prices.
Business
McKesson Is Paying $1.4 Billion for Half of Option Care. The Deal Sets Up a Framework for It to Buy the Rest.
Clayton Dubilier & Rice and McKesson agreed on Monday to take Option Care Health, the largest independent home infusion company in the United States, private for $32.05 a share. McKesson is putting in about $1.4 billion for 49 per cent, and the agreement sets out a framework for it to buy the private equity firm's majority later. Lenders have committed more money to the deal than the two buyers have.
Berkshire Hathaway Spent About $9.6 Billion on Its Own Shares Last Quarter, Four Times What It Put Into Other Companies' Stocks
The repurchases are the largest in any quarter in the filings we checked back to 2018. We priced them from the company's own monthly table and set them against what Berkshire bought elsewhere.
U.S. Payrolls Rose 165,000 in October. Outside Health Care, Employers Have Added 366,000 Jobs in a Year, the Most Since January 2025.
On 4 October we reported that health care and social assistance had added more jobs over 12 months than the whole economy for 16 months running. The revised data end that run at 14.
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How an Aged Company Can Help a New Business Reach Bank Credit Sooner, and How to Do It the Right Way
An aged company can help a young business reach bank credit sooner. Michael Praver explains how it works, and why doing it openly matters.
Dr. Richard Berry's Ohio Clinic Is Adding Two Doctors and Expanding Direct Primary Care to Employers
Maple Health, a direct primary care clinic in Mentor, Ohio, offers membership-based primary care built around access, continuity and predictable costs, and is bringing the same model to local employers.
We tracked 13 statewide tax measures through seven sets of results.
World
The Bank of England Raised Rates to 4 Per Cent, Its First Increase in 1,190 Days. Its Staff Expect Inflation Near 5 Per Cent by the Middle of Next Year.
The Bank of England raised Bank Rate by a quarter point to 4 per cent on Thursday, its first increase since August 2023. The vote was 8 to 1, with Catherine Mann wanting a half-point rise. UK inflation was 3.5 per cent in September and the Bank expects it to reach around 5 per cent by mid-2027.
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Washington's Millionaires' Tax Would Raise $11.4 Billion by 2031 From About 30,000 Payers. Voters Decide Tuesday Whether It Ever Starts.
Florida Votes on Cutting Local Property Taxes by $11.8 Billion a Year. Five Counties Account for 45 Per Cent of It.
Ryanair Flew 6 Per Cent More Passengers and Earned 15 Per Cent Less. Next Year's Extra €2 Billion of Fuel Works Out to About €9 a Passenger.
Westpac's Operating Profit Rose $379 Million Last Year. It Set Aside $440 Million More for Bad Loans, Though Fewer of Its Borrowers Are in Trouble.
CVS Will Split Its 9,000 Drugstores From Aetna and Caremark. A Third of the Stores' Revenue Last Year Came From the Rest of CVS.
CVS Health said on Wednesday it intends to split into two listed companies, putting its roughly 9,000 pharmacies, mail pharmacy and MinuteClinic into a new CVS Pharmacy and keeping Aetna and Caremark together. It expects to finish in the first half of 2028. Nothing is final: the board still has to approve it and a registration statement has to take effect.
Free AI Isn't What It Used to Be: ISACC Institute's Founder, SerVanes Wilson Sr., on the Real Cost to Solopreneurs
Most U.S. businesses have no employees, which often leaves the owner as the only person checking an AI tool's work. For solopreneurs, that makes human review essential, not an option.
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AI Researchers Moved Their Date for Human-Level Machines 13 Years in One Survey. Nova Reach Founder Rishabh Singh Has Stopped Picking a Year.
JPMorgan Reports Tuesday After a Quarter With $5.6 Billion of One-Off Gains. Analysts Expect Revenue of About $51 Billion.
Devon Is Selling 4 Per Cent of Its Production for $4.2 Billion. The Buyer Has Now Made 10 Eagle Ford Deals Since 2023.
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Technology desk (house byline)
Which States' Electricity Prices Rose Most in a Year? Hawaii's, by 22 Per Cent, While Connecticut's Fell 19 Per Cent
Archrock Will Pay Up to $450 Million for HiVolt, a West Texas Oilfield Power Supplier Whose Price Rests on Earnings Due in 2028
42 Gigawatts of Gas-Power Orders Carried Siemens Energy to a Record Year, While Orders at Its Wind Business Fell 37 Per Cent
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Savers Cashed In $1.2 Billion of I Bonds in October, the Most Since January 2025, Just Before the Fixed Rate Rose to 1.40 Per Cent
Checks Cleared by the Federal Reserve Are Down 84 Per Cent Since 1999, and Next Year Its Fees Will Cover Only 79 Per Cent of What They Cost to Clear
The Treasury Sold the Same $125 Billion of Notes and Bonds This Week as Last November, but the Coupons Will Cost $1.26 Billion a Year More
Margaret Holloway
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Americans Have Filed 13 Per Cent More Business Applications This Year. Filings From Firms Planning to Pay Wages Fell Everywhere but Oklahoma.
Helen of Troy Sold $2.2 Billion of Goods in Its 2022 Fiscal Year and $1.8 Billion Last Year. Spectrum Brands Says That Is Why $37 a Share Is Enough.
Texas and Louisiana Account for 46 Per Cent of This Year's $230 Billion Rise in U.S. Exports
Thomas Gutierrez
Media and Culture desk (house byline)
Oil Averaged $102 a Barrel in October. U.S. Oil and Gas Producers Employed 2,300 Fewer People Than in February, the Fewest Since 2022.
U.S. Airlines Had 37 Accidents in the First Ten Months of 2025, the Most Since at Least 2008. The Count for 2026 Is 20.
Where Hancock Whitney and Trustmark Overlap: 14 Counties, First Place in Mississippi and One Alabama County Over the Antitrust Screen
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