(Reuters) - Gina Gannon, a retiree in the battleground state of Georgia, voted for Republican Donald Trump in 2016 before ditching him for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 - and is now looking to next week's debate to help her decide which one to back this year. Gannon, 65, flipped to Biden, she said, because she felt Trump's presidency was...

06:47 AM EDT, 06/20/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The US dollar rose against most major counterparts during the European morning on Thursday but the Norwegian krone and Mexican peso bucked the trend as robust risk appetite in global markets appeared to support high beta currencies. Norway's krone outperformed G10 peers when rising against an otherwise stronger US dollar but the greenback's...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, but overall strength in the jobs market persisted despite a gradual cooling. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 238,000 for the week ended June 15, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That reversed 5,000 of the surge in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. single-family homebuilding fell in May amid continued high mortgage rates. Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, declined 5.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 982,000 units last month, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Thursday. Data for April was revised higher to show single-family starts rising to a rate of...