Business and Economic News

General Mills fiscal 3Q results top forecasts
General Mills Inc. shares rallied in early trading Wednesday after the food company posted better-than-expected results and raised its guidance.
Disney closes $71B deal for Fox entertainment assets
Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox's entertainment business, putting "Cinderella," "The Simpsons," "Star Wars" and "Dr. Strange" under one corporate roof.
Evictions are rising in Rochester; this team is trying to stop them
A squad of lawyers, financial counselors and others helps renters work with landlords threatening eviction. The free work helps keep a roof over citizens who might otherwise be homeless in Rochester's extremely tight housing market.
Hear the new EPA chief Andrew Wheeler on cars, coal and climate
The newly confirmed EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks about climate change, personal transportation, the future of coal and more.
For second year in a row, Enbridge Energy spends the most in Minnesota on lobbying
For the past several years Enbridge has advocated before the PUC for the highly contentious Line 3 oil pipeline, a $2.6 billion project to replace a corroding pipeline across northern Minnesota with a larger pipe along a different route.
The rate of homeownership is dramatically lower among millennials than it was for the generations that preceded them. The Federal Reserve says it's because of "lower earnings, fewer assets and less wealth."
Is an insecticide that harms bees bad for deer?
It's often bees that make headlines for the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides. But a new study says the chemical might be harming white-tailed deer, too.