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Stocks indexes settle down, but small companies drop again

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks wobbled Thursday as the markets turned fairly quiet after a very turbulent start to the week. Small companies dropped and high-dividend stocks, which investors favor when they want to reduce risk, rose. Major stock indexes spent the day switching between small ...

Business Briefs for Dec. 10

Avera Marshall opens primary care clinic at Western Mental Health Center Avera Medical Group Marshall and Western Mental Health Center in Marshall are collaborating to offer an onsite primary care clinic at WMHC. This clinic opened in early November. “We’re happy to be partnering with ...

Stocks drop 4 percent in rocky week on trade, growth worries

Wall Street capped a turbulent week of trading Friday with the biggest weekly loss since March as traders fret over rising trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and signals of slower economic growth. The latest wave of selling erased more than 550 points from the Dow Jones Industrial ...

US hiring pullback could signal mild slowdown in growth

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job growth declined modestly in November, a move that could signal a slower but still steady pace of hiring and growth next year. The potential for a more anemic economy contributed to a sharp drop in the stock market Friday, sending the Dow Jones average down 560 ...

US stocks claw back from an early plunge on Fed report

By Alex Veiga AP Business Writer U.S. stocks clawed most of their way back from a deep slide Thursday that at one point had wiped out the market’s gains for the year. An early plunge briefly knocked more than 700 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average as the arrest of a senior ...

Report: US health spending hits $3.5T but growth slows

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s health care tab hit $3.5 trillion last year, or $10,739 per person, the government reported Thursday. But behind those staggering figures was some fairly good news: The rate of growth slowed for the second year in a row, according to economic experts at the ...