Retail sales fall for second straight month as Americans put off automobile purchases

U.S. retail sales fell for a second straight month in March amid softening demand for automobiles, suggesting economic growth slowed abruptly in the first quarter. The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales dropped 0.2 percent last month. February’s...

Retail sales fall for second straight month as Americans put off automobile purchases

U.S. retail sales fell for a second straight month in March amid softening demand for automobiles, suggesting economic growth slowed abruptly in the first quarter. The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales dropped 0.2 percent last month. February’s...

Consumer prices dropped in March by the largest amount in more than 2 years

Consumer prices fell in March by the largest amount in more than two years, pushed lower by another sharp decline in the price of gasoline and other energy products. The Labor Department says the U.S. Consumer Price Index dropped 0.3 percent in March following a tiny...

Alec Baldwin explains how he went into acting to make money—and succeeded

The commercial opportunities kept coming, but his reaction to what he had thought would feel like success was complicated. For one, he could afford pricey drugs, which he had previously avoided out of thrift, but they nearly killed him. He recalls that when he was...