Dollar Tree to sell 330 Family Dollar stores to Sycamore Partners

Bank of America to improve compliance practices, pay $30 million fine to OCC

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) asked the No. 2 U.S. bank by assets to pay a penalty of $30 million due to non-home loan compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and unsafe non-home debt collection litigation practices. The OCC, which regulates and supervises all national banks, also ordered “remediation” to about 73,000 affected customer accounts. “The enforcement action is intended to correct deficiencies in

U.S. economy contracts in first quarter; dollar hurts corporate profits

The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as it buckled under the weight of unusually heavy snowfalls, a resurgent dollar and disruptions at West Coast ports, but activity already has rebounded modestly. The government on Friday slashed its gross domestic product estimate to show GDP shrinking at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 0.2 percent growth pace it estimated last month. There was also a modest downward