Listen to article (2 minutes) After Allstate suffered billions of dollars in losses and failed to get the rate increases it wanted, it resorted to the nuclear option.  The insurance giant threatened last fall to stop renewing auto insurance for customers in three states that hadn’t given in to its demands, which would have left…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Inflation rose slightly in December, offering the latest sign that the economy has made significant progress since prices spiked to four-decade highs — but there’s still a ways to go, especially on housing costs, which dominate the budgets of households nationwide. Data released Thursday by…

Dozens of prominent startups in India, one of the world’s largest internet markets, are creating a coalition to fight a Google decision that would require them to give 30% of in-app payments to the tech giant beginning next year. On Tuesday, nearly 60 executives from dozens of Indian companies kicked off preliminary discussions, three people…

By encouraging everyday investors, also known as retail investors, to buy up GME stock and increase its price, hedge funds would have to sell out in order to cut their losses from having shorted the stock, which increases the stock price even further. “Hedge funds are getting their asses kicked by the retail investor,” Lindzon…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Congress may need to pass a temporary government funding bill before a looming deadline to prevent a partial shutdown — even though leaders announced a spending deal over the weekend meant to keep the government open. Funding for roughly 20 percent of the federal government…

Artificial intelligence helps people identify what animals they are looking at and aids conservation.