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Amazon continues to expand its Philadelphia-area presence, closing in on a lease in Bucks County.

A record 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week — a number far above the levels seen during the depths of the Great Recession.

"There are going to be a lot more," says the ranking Democrat on the Senate labor and industry committee.

The announcement Monday is part of the Fed's ongoing efforts to support the flow of credit through an economy ravaged by the viral outbreak.

Workers on Wednesday packed into buses before dawn for the drive to the Shell cracker plant in Beaver County.

With more people working and studying from home due to the coronavirus outbreak, Comcast is giving customers unlimited data for no additional charge.

The Treasury Department said Wednesday it wants to dedicate $500 billion to start issuing direct payments to Americans by early next mont ...

Coronavirus has brought the idea of unconditional cash transfers, a policy being experimented with in Philly, to the national stage.

In an attempt to fill its warehouses with toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other items in high demand, Amazon will limit what suppliers can send to its warehouses for 3 weeks.

The Fed announced that it's reviving a program it first used during the 2008 financial crisis to unclog a short-term lending market for what is known as “commercial paper."

Amazon says it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online.

U.S. stock indexes fell sharply Monday after the Federal Reserve aggressively cut interest rates to near zero in a bid to stop the economy from crashing.

Drivers in New Jersey and across the nation are seeing plummeting gas prices amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and "the ongoing crude price war."

The blue chip index was down 8%, moving deeper into a bear market after trading was halted temporarily. It continued its dive after Trump's 30-day ban on travel from Europe.

The expansion bucks the downward trend in local news.