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Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3 billion …

FILE - A sign for The Blackstone Group L.P. investment firm stands in front of their offices, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in New York. Private equity giant Blackstone will acquire the pet care app Rover in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, the companies announced Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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Stock market today: Wall Street edges higher after encouraging …

A man passes the "Fearless Girl" statue in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Friday, November 3, 2023. Shares opened lower in Europe after a mixed day in Asia on Tuesday as investors waited for updates on inflation and how American consumers are feeling about the economy. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Autoworker strike cost GM $1.1B, which it says it can …

FILE - United Auto Workers members join the picket line, in Detroit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. General Motors says pretax earnings took a $1.1 billion hit this year from a six-week strike by autoworkers, but the company expects to absorb the costs of a new contract and is even raising its dividend. The Detroit automaker on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 reinstated its full-year earnings forecast that was withdrawn after the United Auto Workers began targeting the factories of Detroit automakers with strikes on Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Sri Lanka says it struck a deal with creditors on debt …

FILE - A man fills gas into a vehicle at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 29, 2023. Sri Lanka said Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023 that it has reached an agreement in principle with a group of creditors including India and Japan on debt restructuring, a crucial move toward unlocking a second installment of a $2.9 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

US economic growth for last quarter is revised up to a …

Workmen dig on a street in Waukegan, Ill., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the third quarter of 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The world economy will slow next year because of inflation, …

File - A crane lifts a shipping container at an automated container port in Tianjin, China, Jan. 16, 2023. The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest rates. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Barcelona may need water shipped in during a record drought …

FILE - Technical personnel enter a ship loaded with drinking water docked in the Spanish port of Barcelona, Spain on May 13, 2008 as part of an unprecedented emergency plan to alleviate a drought in Barcelona. Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain have gone in effect Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023 as authorities in Catalonia say that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming months. Catalonia is suffering its worst drought on record with reservoirs that provide water for some six million people filled to just 18% of their capacity. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

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Toyota selling part of Denso stake to raise cash …

Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build investment …

FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, right, and his Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, left, speak during an interview in Omaha, Neb., Monday, May 7, 2018, with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell". Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, at a California hospital the company announced.. He was 99. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Stock market today: Asia trading mixed after strong …

A person looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Panama’s Supreme Court declares 20-year contract …

A protester celebrates upon learning that Panama's Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a 20-year concession for a Canadian copper mine that had sparked weeks of protests, in Panama City, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

US gas prices have fallen or remained steady for …

A motorist fills up the fuel tank of a vehicle at a Shell station Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Englewood, Colo. A big explanation for the recent decline in gas prices is seasonality — with prices at the pump almost always easing at this time of year. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

US mediators reject attempt by flight attendants …

FILE - American Airlines planes sit stored at Pittsburgh International Airport on March 31, 2020, in Imperial, Pa. There will be no strike by American Airlines flight attendants around the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The National Mediation Board instead directed the airline and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants to keep negotiating over a new contract. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Fed’s Waller raises possibility of a rate cut by …

FILE - Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Christopher Waller poses for a photo on May 23, 2022, in Washington. Waller said Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 that the U.S. economy is cooling and inflation is steadily slowing, suggesting that the Fed's interest rate policies are succeeding in getting price increases back to the central bank's 2%. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)