- Wall Street finished lower on Friday, weighed down by Big Tech as investors worried about the Omicron coronavirus variant and digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.All three main U.S. stock indexes ended with a decline for the week after the Fed on Wednesday signaled three quarter-percentage-point interest rate hikes by the end of 2022 to combat surging inflation.Nvidia dropped 2.1% and Alphabet lost 1.9%, both weighing on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.The S
3M hit with $22.5 million verdict in latest U.S. military earplug trial
Dec 10 - A federal jury on Friday awarded $22.5 million to a U.S. Army veteran who alleged that combat earplugs sold by $3M$ Co caused him to suffer hearing loss and tinnitus, the biggest verdict yet in massive litigation over the product.Jurors in Pensacola, Florida, sided with former U.S. Army soldier Theodore Finley in the latest trial to result from more than 272,000 lawsuits by servicemembers and veterans who say defective earplugs made by 3M caused their hearing damage.Finley, who used th