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YOUNGSTOWN — For parts or all of three centuries, the city’s business community’s influence has been — and continues to be — in a state of flux, with its presence dipping in and reverberating through many arenas, a longtime area historian says. “He was influential not only here in ...

Meet 3 assets that may not diversify as well as you think

Diversification is a core principle of sound investing: A portfolio that includes assets with different performance characteristics often leads to better risk-adjusted returns than one that relies on a single asset class. But building a diversified portfolio can be easier in theory than ...

Markets plunge with S&P 500 down 6%, Dow down 2,200

NEW YORK — Wall Street’s worst crisis since COVID slammed into a higher gear Friday. The S&P 500 lost 6% after China matched President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs announced earlier this week. The move increased the stakes in a trade war that could end with a recession that ...

More than $2 trillion in value wiped out from US stocks

The Associated Press U.S. companies had trillions of dollars in value wiped out Thursday after President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on foreign imports. Virtually every sector suffered big losses as U.S. financial markets closed with their biggest one-day drop since COVID-19 ...

Mercy, Cigna reach deal for coverage

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Mercy Health announced early Wednesday a multi-year commercial insurance agreement with Cigna that keeps all Mercy Health physician practices, acute care hospitals, urgent care centers, ambulatory surgery centers and additional care sites in-network. “We ...