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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,03/29/22-2:27PM , 143 Reads
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery fell $1.72 to $104.24 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for May delivery fell $2.25 to $110.23 a barrel.

Wholesale gasoline for April delivery fell 2 cents to $3.20 a gallon. April heating oil fell 6 cents to $3.72 a gallon. April natural gas fell 17 cents $5.34 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand watches her shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the LPGA Honda Thailand golf tournament in Pattaya, southern Thailand, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Kittinun Rodsupan)

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LPGA has 1st major in Palm Springs for the final time
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,03/29/22-8:51AM , 679 Reads
LPGA TOUR

CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Rancho Mirage, California.

Course: Mission Hills CC (Dinah Shore). Yardage: 6,763. Par: 72.

Prize money: $5 million. Winner's share: $750,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, noon to 4 p.m., 7-9 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 5-9 p.m. (Golf Channel).
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Alabama fans react as they watch television coverage of the College Football Playoff national championship game against Georgia, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Brookfield Business Partners is boosting its buyout offer for Nielsen Holdings, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, to about $16 billion after the TV ratings and marketing data company rejected a $9 billion takeover bid. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

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Media measuring company Nielsen to be acquired in $16B deal
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN - AP Business Writer
Tue,03/29/22-7:05AM , 324 Reads
Nielsen is being acquired for $16 billion, including debt, about a week after the media measurement company rejected a smaller offer earlier this month.
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Vekile Sesha waits in line outside a garment factory in Maseru, Lesotho Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Sesha lost her job when the coronavirus pandemic hit the world two years ago and the global fashion industry crumple. when, faced with collapsing demand, brands canceled orders worth billions of dollars and few felt the effects so harshly as the tens of millions of workers, most of them women, who stitched the world's clothes. (AP Photo/Neo Ntsoma)

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Women of Lesotho's garment industry lose jobs, hope in COVID
By MAJIRATA LATELA AND RYAN LENORA BROWN - Associated Press
Tue,03/29/22-3:00AM , 267 Reads
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Vekile Sesha stood outside the rusted gates of a garment factory in the industrial district of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, willing her luck to change. Four months earlier, the blue jeans factory where she worked nearby abruptly shut, blaming plummeting demand from the Western brands it supplied amid the pandemic.
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