Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy’s weakest areas.
Eric May wasn’t too keen on the taste of real maple syrup when he first moved to Vermont but he tapped some trees anyway, borrowing buckets from neighboring farmers. After boiling the sap for 18 hours in a pot over an outside fire, he produced his first quart.
A powerful earthquake that hit Chile on Saturday halted production at two oil refineries and two major mines in the world’s top copper supplier, but exports of the metal will not be affected, officials said.