An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve shows price pressures continue to cool

Dock 72 needed some good news — and it got it. Developers Boston Properties and Rudin snared Pratt Institute as a new tenant. The 62,570 square-foot lease will bring to the Brooklyn Navy Yard cutting-edge waterfront office building Pratt’s new MFA studios, which will have the entire third floor. The venerable private college will move…

Jeff Bezos made a splashy, $100 million pledge to help rebuild Maui after it was devastated by wildfires in August — but local officials and nonprofits alike are reportedly puzzled about where the funds may have gone. According to a Bloomberg report published Thursday, Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, have given out just $15.5 million of…

PARIS — French farmers staged protests Wednesday across the country and in Brussels against low wages and what they consider to be excessive regulation, mounting costs and other problems. Roadblocks were spreading in many French regions, one day after a farmer and her daughter died due to a traffic collision at a protest barricade. Farmers…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is marking Monday’s 15th anniversary of a landmark federal pay equity law with new action to help close gaps in pay for federal employees and employees of federal contractors. Despite progress since the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law in January 2009, President Joe Biden said women…

Mercedes-Benz debuted a $1 billion residential luxury tower in Dubai, where apartments are expected to cost as much as $10 million each. Dubbed “Mercedes-Benz Places,” the upscale auto company announced its venture into the real-estate world on Instagram on Thursday, which it’s doing with the help of Emirati developer Binghatti. The 65-story building is expected…

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso withdraw from West Africa economic bloc ECOWAS, citing coup sanctions, officials say