If you hit the Mega Millions jackpot in Friday night’s drawing, don’t forget that good ol’ Uncle Sam will be hovering with palm out. After more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one matching all six numbers — your chance of doing so is 1 in about 302 …

Black Friday is still expected to be the busiest shopping day of the year. But restaurants don’t necessarily get a spending boost as consumers head out to snag deals. The NPD Group analyzed receipts from a panel of 150,000 customers nationwide and found that last year the big traditional shopping …

A Boeing 747 cargo freighter belonging to Atlas Air. S3studio | Getty Images As the peak holiday season ramps up for online retailers and shipping companies, cargo pilots that fly packages for Amazon, UPS and FedEx are pushing to work under the same rules as passenger pilots, a change that the …

A woman tries out a rifle at a National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. Getty Images Matt Post is too young to remember the last time the Supreme Court heard a case over gun control. But the 20-year-old college student is hoping the nine …

Shoppers walk past a placard that states “Black Friday preview” at a Macy’s store as pre-Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday shopping accelerates at the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, November 22, 2019. Mark Makela | Reuters As online shopping becomes more popular over the Thanksgiving weekend, some …

Berkshire Hathaway’s cash hoard keeps growing, topping $128 billion according to the company’s latest SEC filing. Now, we finally have an idea of what Warren Buffett has been thinking of doing with some of that money. In a little-noticed announcement late Wednesday, Tech Data said that it had agreed to …

Call them the market’s turkeys. As the major averages make yet another set of closing highs heading into Thanksgiving Day, some high-profile stocks have been sitting out the record-hitting run since October. While the S&P 500 has rallied more than 9% since the Oct. 3 bottom, shares of Twitter, Dollar …

FILE PHOTO: A letter written by Queen Elizabeth I of England is inspected at Christies auctioneers in London before its sale June26, 2007. The auction of The Albin Schram Collection of Autograph Letters will be held in London in July. REUTERS/James Boardman LONDON (Reuters) – Elizabeth I, one of England’s …

Roadside barber Ranjit (R) shaves a customer’s beard under the flyover in Amritsar on September 22, 2019. Narinder Nanu | AFP | Getty Images India is set to announce its GDP figures for the three months that ended in September on Friday — and experts are predicting a further slowdown …

A worker moves a bin filled with products inside of an Amazon fulfillment centre in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Thanksgiving day celebrations may just be getting started but the holiday is already expected to be a bonanza for retailers. Early data released by Adobe showed online retail …