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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Thursday will launch the largest release ever from the U.S. emergency oil reserve to try to bring down gasoline prices that have soared during Russia’s war with Ukraine, the White House said. Starting in May, the United States will release 1 milli…

DFS Group, the world’s leading luxury travel retailer, is set to re-open its T Galleria by DFS, Saipan store on Friday, April 8. The store will be open daily from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., with exclusive reopening offers and promotions to welcome back DFS’ loyal customers. With popular beauty brands in-sto…

(NMC) — Paradise Dental is the latest company to sign on as a Northern Marianas College ProaPerks Partner, joining many other businesses and organizations. All card-carrying members of the NMC ProaPerks program can now receive a 10% discount. The NMC Proa Perks program provides exclusive discounts …

LONDON (Reuters) — Oil prices jumped by more than 3% on Wednesday on supply tightness and the growing prospect of new Western sanctions against Russia even as Moscow and Kyivheld peace talks. Brent crude futures were up $3.07, or 2.79%, at $113.30 by 1215 GMT, reversing a 2% loss in the previous se…

HONOLULU, Hawaii (BoH) — Bank of Hawai‘i has been ranked No. 3 among America’s Most Trusted Companies in the banking industry category, and is the only Hawaii business to appear on the list by Newsweek. The publication’s first annual “America’s Most Trusted Companies 2022” list was published on Mar…

BANK of Saipan on Monday premiered the second episode of its animated series on financial literacy “for ages 7 to 107” at the bank’s corporate headquarters on Beach Road in Chalan Laulau. There has been a lot of positive feedback from children when BoS launched  “Dollar & Sens…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. job openings slipped in February, but remained near record highs as companies continued to struggle to find scarce workers. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, fell 17,000 to 11.266 million on the last day of February, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Op…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Elon Musk on Tuesday likened himself to the rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the top U.S. securities regulator requiring the Tesla Inc chief executive to obtain preapproval for his tweets. In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, Musk also renewed…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by steel companies to former President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to double tariffs on steel imports from Turkey on national security grounds —  a policy move defended by President Joe Biden’s adminis…

THE SHRM CNMI Chapter will host a general membership meeting in the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Saipan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, starting at 12 noon. Doors will open at 11:15 a.m. This meeting will feature a presentation on creating a safe, violence-free workplace. The presenter will …