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Poster giveaway

YOUNGSTOWN

AT&T stores across Ohio every day from today through Tuesday will feature a different exclusive “Justice League” character poster giveaway, limit one per customer. Customers also get a free digital comic, “DC’s Justice League No. 1” while supplies last, access to exclusive pre-release “Justice League” content, virtual reality experiences in select stores and a special Snapchat lens.

Poster giveaways are: today, Wonder Woman; Saturday, Aquaman; Sunday, The Flash; Monday, Cyborg; and Tuesday, Batman.

The free digital comic “DC’s Justice League No. 1” will be released starting Friday.

Stop by the store in costume Saturday and receive all five “Justice League” character posters.

Tour, luncheon

WARREN

The Valley Alliance For Science & Technology will have an event from noon to 1:15 p.m. Nov. 17 at the city of Warren’s Wastewater Department, 2323 Main Ave. SW.

The event will have a tour of the department.

Engineers, project managers, hackers, entrepreneurs and the public are all welcome to attend the tour and luncheon.

RSVP needed, space is limited. VAST Members get in at no charge and nonmembers pay $25.

To register, email Rose Shaffer at rose@tbeic.org.

30-year mortgage rates rise to 3.94%

WASHINGTON

The costs of borrowing to buy a home increased slightly this week, but U.S. mortgage rates are still near relative lows.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages rose to 3.94 percent from 3.88 percent last week.

At this time last year, the benchmark rate was 3.47 percent. The historic average was roughly 6 percent.

Treasury official to be acting IRS commissioner

WASHINGTON

The White House is naming a Treasury official to serve as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. David Kautter will succeed an IRS commissioner who has drawn the ire of congressional Republicans.

The White House says Kautter will be acting IRS commissioner effective Nov. 13, allowing IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to complete his five-year term. Some congressional Republicans accused Koskinen of abusing the public trust and lying to Congress.

UPS predicts record holiday deliveries, defends price hike

DALLAS

UPS expects another record holiday season, with deliveries up 5 percent over last year, as online shopping continues to grow.

The company said Thursday it expects to deliver more than 750 million packages between Thanksgiving and Dec. 31. It expects to haul at least 30 million packages on 17 of the last 21 delivery days before Christmas.

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1249.20-0.32

Aqua America, .71 35.440.09

Avalon Holdings,1.95-0.01

Chemical Bank, .2754.43-0.06Community Health Sys. 5.82 -0.35

Cortland Bancorp, .2818.500.00

Farmers Nat., .1615.700.25

First Energy, 1.44 31.78-0.07

Fifth/Third, .5228.850.27

FirstMerit Corp.,--First Niles Financial, .1211.000.00

FNB Corp., .4813.830.13

General Motors, 1.5245.250.13

General Electric, .9221.33-0.17

Huntington Bank, .28 13.910.03

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.50-0.05

JP Morgan Chase, 1.92101.740.72

Key Corp, .3418.530.21

LaFarge, .34--Macy’s, 1.51 21.340.10

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 184.831.15

PNC, 2.20137.870.41

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60163.990.31

Stoneridge 22.33-0.18

United Comm. Fin., .12 9.51-0.13

Selected prices from Thursday’s 4 p.m. close.