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Federal student loan borrowers are confronting some challenges in restarting their payments since a pandemic-era pause ended in October. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday that borrowers are dealing with inaccurate and untimely billing…

Lululemon founder and former CEO Chip Wilson criticized the company’s recent moves to expand its product line to a wider market. In a new interview with Forbes, Wilson, who launched the yogawear-maker in 1998 in…

Starbucks announced it will allow customers to use their own personal cups for all visits, including drive-through and mobile orders, in a bid to reduce waste sent to landfills.  The new practice starts Wednesday at…

TGI Fridays is closing 36 ‘underperforming’ locations across the U.S. as part of a broader restructuring. The fast-casual eatery said in a release late Wednesday that it is offering at least 1,000 transfer opportunities to…

Maersk will pause all shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden until further notice after one of its vessels came under attack from militants over the weekend, the company announced Tuesday. The decision by…

Demand for workers fell to its lowest level in more than 2½ years in November while hirings and layoffs both moved lower, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed employment…

Boeing is urging airlines to inspect 737 Max planes to look for a “possible loose bolt” in the rudder control system, the latest quality issue to affect the manufacturer’s bestselling jetliner. The company recommended the inspections…

BlendJet is recalling about 4.8 million of its portable blenders over laceration and fire hazards after receiving dozens of reports of injuries, federal regulators said Thursday. BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders can overheat or catch fire,…

Mounting concerns over self-driving cars — headlined by allegations that autonomous vehicle maker Cruise misled the California Department of Motor Vehicles about an accident in San Francisco that seriously injured a pedestrian — have some…

The story goes that baby boomers are going to give tens of trillions of dollars to their heirs over the next few decades. The “generational wealth transfer” has become a media fascination, both for its…