US Business
European Beverage Stocks Fall After China Imposes Brandy Tariffs
China plans to impose provisional antidumping tariffs on European brandy, ranging from 30.6% to 39%, and reversing from an earlier stance.
Articles by Erin Slifka
US Business
Vodafone, Google Expand Partnership With Billion-Plus Dollar Deal
The partnership aims to extend the use of devices powered by generative AI, through Google’s Gemini models, to Vodafone’s customers in Europe and Africa.
US Business
OMV Earnings Face Production Hit on Libya Unrest
The Austrian energy company said growing security concerns in Libya hampered third-quarter earnings, along with weaker oil prices and refining margins through the period.
US Business
Why Pfizer Will Find It Hard to Appease Its Activist Investor
The drugmaker has cut costs already and has no coming product approvals or research that could offer a quick lift.
US Business
Decision Time for GM in China: Stay, Scale Back or Go
The country’s sharp shift to EVs and stronger local competition have deflated a key profit engine for the U.S. automaker.
Events
City of Joplin Sets Public Meeting to Discuss North Heights Neighborhood Architectural Survey on October 17
(Joplin, MO) – A public meeting to discuss the North Heights Neighborhood Architectural Survey will be held at 6:00 pm on Thursday, October 17, at First Presbyterian, 509 S. Pearl Ave. (Please enter through the […]
Events
Watered Gardens to Host Pop-Up Presales Event for 12th Annual Empty Bowls at Local Color Art Gallery on October 19
Join Watered Gardens Ministries for their 12th annual Empty Bowls presale event! Reminiscent of the “soup lines” from the mid 1930’s, Empty Bowls is a grass roots fundraiser brought to people in cities and towns around the […]
Health Care
Freeman Health System’s Mobile Hospital at the Ready
(Joplin, MO) – With Americans horrified by footage from North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene, Freeman Health System officials recently conducted a mass casualty exercise to prep for the unthinkable should it occur […]
US Business
Big Oil Urges Trump Not to Gut Biden’s Climate Law
Oil companies try to persuade the former president and his Republican allies not to slash provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act potentially worth billions.
US Business
$200 Million ‘Joker’ Sequel Is a Box Office Bust
The expensive musical, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux,’ starring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix, hits the wrong note with critics and audiences.