AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 5:00 p.m. EDT

Two of the nation’s largest grocers have agreed to merge in a deal that would help them better compete with Walmart, Amazon and other major companies that have stepped into the grocery business

Stocks ended broadly lower on Wall Street, leaving most major indexes in the red for the week, as more concerns emerged about inflation

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The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at money available for other things

Senior U.S. officials say the Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces during the war with Russia

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s third quarter profits fell by 17% from a year earlier, as the bank set aside roughly a billion dollars to cover potential losses in what CEO Jamie Dimon has said a could be a recession in six to nine months

Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic has acknowledged that many of his financial trades and investments violated the central bank's ethics rules

Key financial regulators having approved U.S. Bank’s $8 billion acquisition of Japanese financial titan MUFG’s Union Bank franchise

The Beyond Meat executive charged with biting a man’s nose during a fight last month has left the plant-based meat company

UnitedHealth trumped third-quarter expectations and hiked its 2022 forecast again as one of the largest U.S. health insurance providers moved deeper into delivering care