Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, US Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday said.

Hunger has been …

Oil prices rose nearly 1% on Thursday, amid a larger-than-expected drawdown in US inventories and OPEC+ delaying an output increase.

Brent crude futures rose 89 cents, or 1.2%, to $73.59 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures …

European stocks fell for the fourth straight session at the start of trading Thursday, with investors awaiting economic data from the euro zone, as well as jobs data in the United States, for indications on the path of US interest rate cuts.

The pan-…

The number of job openings was little changed at 7.7 million on the last business day of July, the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

The figure was the lowest since January 2021, a hint that the labor market in the world’s largest econ…