Toyota announced Wednesday it has officially begun production at its new $13.9 billion battery manufacturing plant in North Carolina, while committing an additional $10 billion to bolster its U.S. manufacturing over the next five years. The 1,850-acre facility in Liberty, North Carolina, marks the automaker’s first battery plant outside Japan…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 328 points to close above the 48,000 level for the first time on Wednesday, registering its 17th record high of the year as investors bet on the end of the longest government shutdown in history and shrugged off concerns about an AI bubble.  Ticker…

Shock. Anger. Shame. And finally, hopelessness. The emotions that follow a car repossession can be overwhelming, but they often converge into one lingering question: “What do I do now?” As an insurance agent in 2009, I received this call more times than I can count, as the Great Recession resulted…