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Thursday's Transactions 12/01/2022 03:00pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League Supreme Court won't allow student loan cancellations to begin, but will hear case in late winter 12/01/2022 02:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court won't allow student loan cancellations to begin, but will hear case in late winter. UEFA opens investigation into Juventus as club's woes grow 12/01/2022 02:37pm • MILAN (AP) — Juventus’ off-the-field problems keep on worsening in a scandal reverberating through Italian soccer. UEFA opened an investigation into Juventus on Thursday, hours after it was revealed that the Turin prosecutor’s office had requested indictments for former president Andrea Agnell Gaetz friend gets 11 years for sex crime, other counts 12/01/2022 02:05pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal probe into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other offenses. Joel Greenberg, former tax collector for Seminole County, was accused of stalking a politica Cheerleading abuse accusations increase to 20 with Ohio case 12/01/2022 01:31pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest lawsuit in a series alleging widespread sexual misconduct across competitive cheerleading alleges that officials allowed two choreographers to continue working after they were investigated for sexual abuse. Snowballing accounts of cheerleaders' alleged abuse have Average long-term US mortgage rates dip third week in a row 12/01/2022 12:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked down for the third week in a row and have fallen more than a half-point since hitting a 20-year high less than a month ago. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate fell to 6.49% fr House panel says lax screening helped facilitate PPP fraud 12/01/2022 11:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial technology firms abdicated their responsibility to screen out fraud in applications for a federal program designed to help small businesses stay open and keep workers employed during the pandemic, a report by a House investigations panel said Thursday. The House Sele Is now the right time for your business to buy real estate? 12/01/2022 09:52am • For small businesses hoping to establish or expand their brick-and-mortar presence, it may seem like a bad time to sink cash into a commercial property purchase. Amid predictions of an upcoming recession, the Federal Reserve increased the federal funds rate for the sixth time in 2022, citing infl An inflation gauge tracked by the Fed slows to still-high 6% 12/01/2022 09:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve eased but remained at an elevated level in October, likely reinforcing the Fed's intent to keep raising interest rates to cool the economy and slow the acceleration of prices. Thursday's report from the Co Asian shares gain after Fed chair signals slower rate hikes 11/30/2022 11:18pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Thursday after a rally on Wall Street spurred by the Federal Reserve chair's comments on easing the pace of interest rate hikes to tame inflation. Signs that China may be shifting its approach to containing COVID-19 outbreaks to focus more on vaccinations Biden pledges new commitments, respect for tribal nations 11/30/2022 07:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to give Native Americans a stronger voice in federal affairs, promising at the first in-person summit on tribal affairs in six years that he will bolster tribal consultations, inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in decision-making and fundin Low-Cost, Home-Based Business Ideas 11/30/2022 07:00pm • Between inflation driving up costs and concerns about a potential recession on the horizon, many Americans are considering ways to earn some additional income. Nearly 40% of workers have taken on second jobs and another 14% are considering it, according to a recent survey by Qualtrecs. In many cases Powell: Fed to keep rates higher for longer to cut inflation 11/30/2022 04:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday in remarks likely intended to underscore the Fed's single-minded focus on combating stubborn inflation. Yet in a speech at the Brook Amazon deforestation in Brazil remains near 15-year high 11/30/2022 03:08pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed slightly last year, a year after a 15-year high, according to closely watched numbers published Wednesday. The data was released by the National Institute for Space Research. The agency’s Prodes monitoring system shows the rainf NYC public employees among 19 accused of pandemic aid fraud 11/30/2022 02:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Nineteen people including 17 New York City and New York state public employees were charged in a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday with submitting fraudulent applications for funds intended to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. The accused, including employe