All posts tagged "Business"
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Gorsuch often sided with employers in workers’ rights cases
The case tugs at the heartstrings: A popular Kansas State University professor battles breast cancer, then leukemia. The school won’t extend her six-month sick leave, she loses her job and she cannot get rehired. She sues for...
- Posted February 27, 2017
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1st senior Chinese official visits Washington in Trump era
BEIJING — China is sending its first senior official to visit the United States since President Donald Trump took office, amid uncertainties over trade relations and new security tensions in east Asia. The Foreign Ministry said State...
- Posted February 27, 2017
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US stocks eke out last-minute gain as utilities rise
NEW YORK — A late push helped U.S. stocks finish higher Friday after indexes spent most of the day lower. There was far more selling than buying on Wall Street overall, but the Dow Jones industrial average...
- Posted February 24, 2017
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Greece’s Tsipras: the era of austerity is over
Fitch leaves rating at CCC, expects bailout agreement to be reached
- Posted February 24, 2017
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Stocks end mixed as investors seek safety; industrials slide
NEW YORK – Stocks wobbled Thursday as investors changed course and tempered their expectations for faster economic growth. Industrial companies, which have surged over the last few months, finished lower as Wall Street focused on gold, bonds,...
- Posted February 23, 2017
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Deal to streamline world trade takes effect
GENEVA — The first multilateral trade agreement reached under the World Trade Organization since it was created over a generation ago has taken force, aiming to streamline cross-border trade to the benefit of the developing world in...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Airbus profit dives on problems with A400M military jet
PARIS — Surprise new costs for the long-troubled Airbus A400M military jet sent the European plane maker’s profits plunging last year and will weigh on the company’s financial prospects through next year, even as it forecast a...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Zuckerberg’s goal: Remake a world Facebook helped create
NEW YORK — Mark Zuckerberg helped create the modern world by connecting nearly a quarter of its citizens to Facebook and giving them a platform to share, well, everything — baby pictures and Pepe memes, social updates...
- Posted February 17, 2017
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Toshiba chairman resigns over huge nuclear business loss
President Satoshi Tsunakawa said the company also was looking for potential partners to acquire a stake in Westinghouse
- Posted February 14, 2017
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Chinese auto sales weaken in January as sales tax rises
Sales in the world's biggest auto market declined 1.1 percent from a year earlier to 2.2 million
- Posted February 13, 2017