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This Week: Campbell Soup earnings, jobless claims, mortgage rates 06/05/2023 03:10am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: M'M! M'M! GOOD? Campbell Soup Co. reports third-quarter financial results before the bell on Wednesday. Wall Street analysts expect the soup and snack maker to post profit of 65 cents per share in the period on $2. 8 Best High-Yield REITs to Buy 06/04/2023 08:00pm • One of the main reasons why income-oriented investors prefer real estate investments trusts, or REITs, is the potential for higher-than-average, consistently paid dividends. For investors, the REIT structure offers a unique blend of real estate exposure, liquidity and present income, along with the Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums 06/04/2023 02:15pm • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball’s smallest ballpark — arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca. Nationwide debate about public funding for private sports clubs has been revive Kroenke bought Nuggets, kept team in Denver, now hoping to deliver an NBA title 06/04/2023 11:46am • DENVER (AP) — Some might say Stan Kroenke and his family would be pulling off the impossible by bringing a long-awaited NBA title to Denver. Less discussed — at least these days — was their willingness, in 1999, to dive into a messy acquisition process for a largely irrelevant franchise that h Russia's most famous icon handed over from museum to church despite protests 06/04/2023 09:26am • MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia's most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow's main cathedral despite the keepers' vociferous protests. The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev, which was kept in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s, was move Man United in limbo as uncertainty over sale of club affects Ten Hag's planning 06/04/2023 05:53am • LONDON (AP) — Deep in the bowels of Wembley Stadium, Manchester United co-owner Avram Glazer strode past a group of reporters seeking an update — in fact, just any news — about the potential sale of the storied English club. “Why are you not speaking to the fans?” came one shout. Silence. Pope warns of risk of corruption in missionary fundraising after AP investigation 06/03/2023 09:36am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned the Vatican’s missionary fundraisers on Saturday not to allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. Francis made the comments in a speech Stock market today: Wall Street leaps, nearly escapes its bear market after strong jobs report 06/02/2023 05:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rushed higher Friday after a strong report on the U.S. job market suggested a recession may not be as close as Wall Street had feared. The S&P 500 leaped 1.5% for the latest surge in a rally that's vaulted it nearly 20% since mid-October. That put Wall Street's main mea US hiring jumped last month. So did unemployment. Here's what that says about the economy 06/02/2023 04:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of enduring strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool. Friday's report from the government reflected the job market's re British government appoints new acting chair for BBC to 'provide stability' 06/02/2023 08:56am • LONDON (AP) — The British government appointed a new acting chair for the BBC on Friday, five weeks after the resignation of Richard Sharp, who was found to have failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years ago for then-Prime Minister Bo Rent to Own 101 06/01/2023 08:00pm • A rent-to-own agreement can be an alluring option for aspiring homebuyers who don't yet qualify for a mortgage. But if you're contemplating going through the rent-to-own process, you'll want to tread carefully. There are a variety of pitfalls associated with rent-to-own agreements. Here's a primer o Mortgage Rates Climb as U.S. Narrowly Avoids Default 06/01/2023 08:00pm • Mortgage rates surged higher across the board again, with the 30-year fixed rate increasing for the fourth consecutive week to 7.24%. Both fixed and adjustable mortgage rates are about the highest they've been since we began collecting this data in January 2022, with the 5/1 ARM rate reaching a high 9 Short Squeeze Stocks That Could Take Off in June 06/01/2023 08:00pm • Short squeezes have been among the most popular and controversial topics on Wall Street in the past couple of years. In 2021, groups of online stock traders on Reddit made headlines by orchestrating targeted buying campaigns to trigger short squeezes in some of the market's most heavily shorted stoc Senate passes GOP bill overturning student loan cancellation, teeing it up for Biden veto 06/01/2023 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden's student loan cancellation plan passed the Senate on Thursday and now awaits an expected veto. The vote was 52-46, with support from Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana as well as Arizona Se White House imposing sanctions as Sudan's warring sides fail to abide by cease-fire deal 06/01/2023 04:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Thursday that it will impose sanctions against key defense companies and people who "perpetuate violence" in Sudan as the warring sides failed to abide by a cease-fire agreement in the northeastern African nation. New visa restrictions apply to officials