March 27, 2020, 9:01am Business
HOUSTON — The state of Texas sued a Houston auctioneer on Thursday after halting an auction of 750,000 medical-grade and N95 face masks, alleging price gouging in the sale of the masks commonly used by health professionals who are on the front lines battling against the new coronavirus. Read story
March 27, 2020, 6:08am Business
Not dwelling on the gruesome losses on Wall Street. Not looking at your 401(k) every other minute. Read story
March 27, 2020, 6:01am Business
Steve Early and Mary Shepard picked up their lunch, a boxed and bagged salmon BLT, from Elements Restaurants on Thursday. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:43pm Business
The number of travelers flying through Portland International Airport has fallen 90 percent during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Port of Portland, which runs PDX. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:43pm Business Briefs
SEATTLE -- The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. for land and access to add light rail service. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:42pm Business Briefs
The world will run out of places to store oil in as little as three months, according to an industry consultant. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:21pm Business
DES MOINES, Iowa — As hospitals and nursing homes desperately search for hand sanitizer amid the coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are preventing ethanol producers from providing millions of gallons of alcohol that could be transformed into the germ-killing mixture. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:18pm Business
The number of unemployment claims in Clark County last week spiked by 1,575 percent compared with the week before, signaling the first set of employment impacts from the COVID-19 outbreak. Read story
March 26, 2020, 5:34pm Business
New unemployment claims in Oregon shot up fivefold last week in the days after Gov. Kate Brown issued an order shutting bars and restaurants to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Read story
March 26, 2020, 2:15pm Business
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks marched higher for a third straight day Friday as a massive coronavirus relief bill moved closer to passing Congress and Wall Street took some historically bad unemployment figures in stride. Read story