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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance ‘I will continue happily shopping there forever’: Costco customers react to retailer’s new $ 16 minimum wage Some 180,000 U.S.-based Costco employees will begin earning $ 16 an hour starting next week, the warehouse retailer’s CEO announced Thursday. We put …

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak talks with staff as he visits a Jobcentre Plus in Barking, east London on July 16, 2020. anthony upton/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Britain has racked up debt as its economy has cratered, sending its debt-to-GDP ratio to the highest level since 1961, according to …

Forbes released its annual list of the highest paid athletes on the planet, and some tennis players showed how lucrative the sport can be — especially when it comes to endorsements. Naomi Osaka, 22, is the first female athlete on the list at no. 29, overtaking fellow tennis player Serena …

Neighborhoods in southeast Queens as well as Brooklyn have the highest death rates from COVID-19 in the city, according to data New York City’s health department made public for the first time on Monday afternoon.  The deaths by ZIP Code offer a new window into how the coronavirus has ripped …

The numbers: Builders started construction on new homes in the U.S. at a pace of 1.57 million in January, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. This represented a 3.6% decrease from a revised 1.63 million in December, but was 21.4% higher than a year ago. Permitting activity, however, hit yet another …