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Wells deals with tech issues for 2nd day, extends hours

NEW YORK (AP) — The problems with Wells Fargo's online and mobile banking services, as well as its ATMs, lingered into a second day on Friday as the bank continues to recover from a possible fire at one of its data centers. The bank said Friday most of the disrupted services have been restored, but both the employees and its customers had trouble accessing information on their direct deposits earlier in the day. The bank said that issue has now been corrected. The bank will extend branch hours by one hour today to help customers deal with any issues they might have had during the ...

Business Briefs for Feb. 4

North Star announces promotions of three employees Sheila Brockman, CPCU, ARM, API, AIS, has been promoted to department manager of the Personal Lines Underwriting department. Brockman has worked for North Star since March of 1992 and previously held the position of assistant department manager of the Personal Lines Underwriting department. Amy Herrick, AU, API, AIS, has been promoted to department manager of the Personal Lines Underwriting Department. Herrick has worked for North Star since June of 1993 and previously held the position of assistant department manager of the ...

Foxconn again shifts Wisc. plan after Trump intervenes

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group has shifted its stated strategy yet again on Friday for a massive Wisconsin campus, crediting a conversation with President Donald Trump for cementing plans to proceed with building a factory to make high-tech liquid display screens. The news capped a week of confusion about Foxconn’s plans in Wisconsin. The company announced in 2017, to much fanfare, that it planned to invest $10 billion in the state and hire 13,000 people to build an LCD factory that could make screens for televisions and a variety of other devices. The company last ...

US stocks eke out gains after bumpy day caps solid week

Stocks capped a bumpy day of trading Friday with modest gains, extending the market's winning streak to its third straight day. Gains in technology companies, energy stocks and banks outweighed losses in retailers and elsewhere in the market. Major indexes were higher much of the morning as investors applauded a burst of hiring in January by U.S. employers. That enthusiasm was tempered, however, by a disappointing revenue outlook from Amazon. The solid jobs report came two days after investors got encouraging news from the Federal Reserve, which confirmed that it will be ...

Game break: 10 Super Bowl ads to watch Sunday

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Super Bowl ads are designed to entertain and go down easy, as Stella Artois brings back Carrie Bradshaw and “The Dude” and the Backstreet Boys and Chance the Rapper remix the 1990s classic “I Want It That Way” for Doritos. With ads costing more than $5 million for 30 seconds of media time, advertisers are gambling that their spots will be among the few that stand out — hopefully, not by drawing internet scorn. Many aim for laughs, like Amazon’s ad about celebrity product testers. Others are taking another route, including a heartfelt ...

Robust job gain in January shows US economy’s durability

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year. The healthy gain the government reported Friday illustrated the job market's resilience nearly a decade into the economic expansion. The U.S. has now added jobs for 100 straight months, the longest such period on record. The unemployment rate did rise in January to 4 percent from 3.9 percent, the Labor Department said, but mostly for a technical reason: The number of people counted as temporarily ...