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Party of one: Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners
NEW YORK (AP) — Parisa Imanirad, a scientist and cancer researcher from San Francisco, is married and has a wide circle of friends. But once or twice a week, she goes to a restaurant by herself.
Imanirad said dining alone gives her time to think or read. She tries not to touch her phone and relishes the silence. "It's ... (full story)
The Fed welcomes a 'soft landing' even if many Americans don't feel like cheering
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jerome Powell delivered a high-profile speech last month, the Federal Reserve chair came the closest he ever had to declaring that the inflation surge that gripped the nation for three painful years was now essentially defeated.
And not only that. The Fed's high interest rates, Powell said, had manag ... (full story)
Beware of scammers impersonating support centers
If you find you need to contact your brokerage firm's customer support department, but you can't remember the phone number, you might go online to a search engine to find the contact information -- and you might get caught up in a scam as a result.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees the U.S. broker-deale ... (full story)
Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm's closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say
AYER, Mass. (AP) — When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local Massachusetts hospital in the dead of night. She couldn't breathe, suffered a seizure and was near death when a doctor saved her by inserting a tube down her throat.
Hernon is now an emergency phys ... (full story)
You use Spotify to listen to music. Here's how money from ads and subscription fees flows to artists
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every day, millions of people use Spotify to stream music. A few years ago, it would've felt like an impossibility: Click, and bam — a seemingly endless catalog of recorded music opens up, right at your fingertips.
Streaming now accounts for most of the money generated by the music industry — ... (full story)