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change for its Messenger app and a salad recall.>
to chat with companies just like they do with your friends. Users could get
anything from weather updates to shopping notifications.>
On the CBS MoneyWatch, more from Facebook which announced a big change for its Messenger app and a salad recall. Jill Wagner is at the New York Stock Exchange with that and more. Good morning, Jill.
JILL WAGNER: Good morning, Anne-Marie. Facebook is introducing box for its Messenger app that allows users to chat with companies just like they do with your friends. Users could get anything from weather updates to shopping notifications. The box will allow businesses to chat with users to sell goods and services. Analysts predict this could be a big money maker for Facebook.
Well, gains in the energy sector amid news that Russia and Saudi Arabia are working on a deal to cut oil production helped propel stocks on Wall Street. The Dow gained a hundred and sixty-four points. The S&P rose nineteen. The NASDAQ finished thirty-eight points higher.
Reser`s Fine Foods is recalling salads sold in twenty-nine states because of Listeria concerns. The refrigerated salads are sold under different names at stores like Walmart and Safeway. The salads include potato salad, tuna and egg potato with the use by dates from April twenty-seventh to May sixteenth. You can get the exact name and sizes by going to Reser`s Fine Foods website.
An association of cruise lines is suing the city of Juneau, Alaska, because it says Juneau misused its fees paid by cruise line visitors. Among the complaints, plans for nearly fifty-foot whale statue costing ten million dollars. Cruise ships collect and pay the city a five-dollar head fee for every passenger. That`s on top of a three-dollar-per-passenger court fee. The lawsuit also lists twenty-two million spent on government-operating expenses.
And the clothing manufacturer American Apparel is laying off hundreds of workers. The layoffs are part of a redesigned production process which could involve outsourcing some manufacturing to another U.S. manufacturer. The layoffs started last week. So far about five hundred employees have lost their jobs. American Apparel emerged from bankruptcy in February. Anne-Marie.
ANNE-MARIE GREEN: Jill Wagner at the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks a lot, Jill.
Still to come, an amazing survival story. A grandmother is found alive after getting lost in the wilderness for more than a week.
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