A potent mix of rising exports, consumer spending and business investment helped the U.S. economy end the year on solid footing. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services churned out by the economy, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.2% in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said. That was less than

J.P. Morgan Chase has agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit that says the bank maintained a “sexually hostile work environment” toward its female mortgage bankers. The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says female mortgage bankers assigned to the bank’s PolarisPark facility–located outside Columbus, Ohio–faced “sexually charged behavior and comments from

La inflación general de todo enero se ubicó en 0.89%, muy por debajo de lo esperado en 0.96% de acuerdo con la encuesta de Banxico, el 0.98% de la encuesta de Banamex y del 0.97% del pronóstico esperado por Reuters.  También la inflación subyacente, que mostró un incremento mensual de 0.85%, resultó por debajo de