Business and Economic News

A woman has been named as NYSE CEO. It only took 226 years
Stacey Cunningham, who started her career at the exchange as a summer intern on the ground floor, has been appointed to lead the Big Board starting Friday.
An employee well-being company owned by British billionaire Richard Branson says it will merge with its Minneapolis-based rival and make Providence the new corporate headquarters.
Union workers at the Mayo Clinic Health System hospital in Albert Lea have ratified a new contract after staging a strike last December.
Demonstrators sat down on the rail tracks near Fort Snelling Tuesday morning protesting deportations by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which has offices in a nearby building.
Buying? Selling? Flipping? Twin Cities houses selling at breakneck pace
It's a great time to be a seller -- median sale prices have never been higher. But for buyers, there's increasing pressure to ante up: Half of all properties are selling above asking price.
The 2018 legislative session is over, now comes the spin
Three months of often plodding work gave way over the weekend to a sprint to the finish. But the battle over the narrative of the session is just beginning.
Why the farm bill failed
An $867 billion farm bill that would have established agricultural policy failed to pass. What happened?