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Nov 27, 2020
Good Food Markets opened a pilot location in Northeast Washington but has struggled to open other stores.
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Nov 27, 2020
Janet Yellen's career has long been marked by firsts. After being the first female chair of the Fed, she has been nominated to be the country's first female treasury secretary.
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Nov 27, 2020
The wave of online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic forced Amazon to grow and adapt its logistics operations.
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Nov 27, 2020
A dedicated group is piecing together the needed elements to sustain online play for some PS3 titles even after Sony has pulled the plug on supporting them.
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Nov 27, 2020
After struggling with shipping at the start of the pandemic, Amazon quietly built a logistics operation that will provide it delivery advantages that no other retailer can match.
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Nov 27, 2020
An incumbent superpower and a rising one are finding coexistence increasingly difficult. Jockeying for position in a changing world, the U.S. and China are facing off on all sorts of issues, most -- but not all -- involving economic rather than military might. As the U.S. prepares for a change of leadership, here's a rundown of flashpoints, some with significant real-world consequences and others that for now are mostly symbolic.
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Nov 27, 2020
The boutique M&A shop can take full credit if it cuts a good deal with a SPAC. But it'll have no one to blame if it all goes wrong.
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Nov 27, 2020
Holiday sales began weeks ago, and many shoppers say they're shunning stores this year in favor of buying online.
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Nov 27, 2020
Federal money, through the Medicare and Medicaid systems, has long shaped the nursing home business — and in ways that left it completely unprepared when the viral pandemic arrived in March.
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Nov 27, 2020
The Tesla-led automotive revolution is real but valuations have become divorced from the messy reality of the industry.
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Nov 27, 2020
The coronavirus highlighted the risks created by another escalating health emergency: obesity. The prevalence of obesity has almost tripled in the past four decades and is still rising. Obese people have a higher risk of suffering complications or dying from Covid-19, while also being vulnerable to diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. The United Nations warned in 2020 that obesity is a "global pandemic in its own right." Tougher rules have forced more disclosure on food labels. Now money
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Nov 26, 2020
The Indian entrepreneurs are like the lemonade-stand kids who beat back Big Government. Their elders will catch up.
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Nov 26, 2020
The British drugmaker will likely conduct an additional global trial for the Oxford inoculation. It's got to be careful how it presents the results.
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Nov 26, 2020
A takeover would be risky, but nabbing Slack may be a risk worth taking.
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Nov 26, 2020
Unless they can get creative, a slow December might mean the end for many local businesses.
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Nov 26, 2020
TSM CEO Andy Dinh said he believed the contract was the richest deal ever for a "League of Legends" pro or any other esports pro in North America.
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Nov 26, 2020
Between lockdowns and vaccines, the outlook for oil demand remains uncertain. The cartel needs to be able to react quickly to any changes.
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Nov 26, 2020
Britain is aiming to be a hub for carbon credit and green derivatives trading. It has the know-how but how much of a market is there?
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Nov 26, 2020
It can be dicey buying a gift for a gamer if you're not familiar with gaming. Here are some things to keep in mind.
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Nov 26, 2020
Monte Paschi is facing questions about its capital buffers. This is a real test for Italy and Europe.
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Nov 26, 2020
This Thanksgiving, be thankful for technology that lets you see family members from a safe distance.
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Nov 26, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | Some of the units at 1331, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, will rent for $22,000 per month.
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Nov 26, 2020
Value-stock enthusiasm may gain traction, but don't discount the post-pandemic power of disruption behind growth stocks.
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Nov 25, 2020
There's a lot to be said for Stripe making hay while the sun shines. But the Silicon Valley firm should beware of sunburn.
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Nov 25, 2020
Outages at Amazon Web Services' northern Virginia datacenters left customers scrambling Wednesday to get their computing systems and web services working.
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Nov 25, 2020
A week after hitting its all-time low, the 30-year fixed-rate average held steady at 2.72 percent.
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Nov 25, 2020
The urbane investment banker helped right the finances of major U.S. cultural institutions, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, before guiding the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.
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Nov 25, 2020
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Nov 25, 2020
The plan calls for "buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid "bottlenecks"
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Nov 25, 2020
As air travel gains some steam and coronavirus-related shutdowns return in pockets of the country, one of the latest iterations of virus-fighting tech at the airport is a germ-zapping robot at San Antonio International Airport.
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Nov 25, 2020
A puzzling conflict about transatlantic relations has broken out between the French president and the German defense minister. It's mostly semantics.
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Nov 25, 2020
Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping them with what to do about it.
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Nov 25, 2020
Spending the holiday over Zoom hasn't sapped appetites for big roast birds.
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Nov 25, 2020
Although some retailers, like Macy's, have suspended Santa visits or moved them online, many others are forging ahead with extra precautions and backup plans, in hopes of getting customers into stores during a particularly fraught holiday season.
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Nov 25, 2020
Economists say they are concerned that virus' current surge, combined with Congress' failure to pass for stimulus, could send the recovery backwards.
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Nov 25, 2020
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
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Nov 25, 2020
More Americans are going hungry now than at any point during the deadly covid-19 pandemic, according to new federal data.
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Nov 25, 2020
The White House has pressured the Defense Department to move forward with a plan to allow a private company to lease electromagnetic spectrum necessary for 5G communication networks. Industry analysts say such an opportunity would be worth at least $50 billion.
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Nov 25, 2020
Binish Desai has already made more than 40,000 bricks for projects including homes and factories, and is gearing up to produce 15,000 a day.
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Nov 25, 2020
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Forget about writing a letter. A casual conversation is the smart way to open the door.
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Nov 25, 2020
A takeover of KPN by EQT would deploy a chunk of private equity's dry powder. But why entertain a deal for such Covid-battered shares?
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Nov 25, 2020
In the quest to develop vaccines against Covid-19, researchers are on the cusp of overcoming challenges that typically require years if not decades to beat. After the first experimental shots produced positive results in late-stage trials -- a huge feat in itself -- drug companies and health officials will face another set of obstacles in inoculating hundreds of millions of people around the world. Assuming developers gain approval soon, a rollout could start by the end of the year. Still, a num
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Nov 25, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | Responding to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Association of Realtors agreed buyers' agents must publicly disclose the commission they charge for properties listed on a multiple listing service site.
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Nov 25, 2020
Beijing is trying out new rules to protect households in credit markets. A lot depends on getting them right.
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Nov 25, 2020
Even as the trade war was crimping the flow of goods between the U.S. and China, the Chinese government was opening doors in another arena, inviting in more foreign banks, insurance providers and other financial services companies. China has also been making it easier for foreigners to buy its stocks and bonds — something many fund managers are required to do now that major index compilers are including Chinese assets in their gauges — to the growing dismay of some U.S. politicians. The take-up
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Nov 25, 2020
This delightful platformer is much more than just a technical demo.
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Nov 25, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | Year-over-year median rent in October decreased 11.6 percent in D.C. and 10.6 percent in Arlington, according to Apartment List.
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Nov 25, 2020
ASK THE BUILDER | Vent pipes can be moved. The important question is: How easy will it be to relocate them?
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Nov 25, 2020
Just like Porsche/Volkswagen, the regulatory lapses that let Wirecard go unchecked will live long in investors' memory.
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Nov 25, 2020
The City won't be able to count on Europe much longer for its hegemony in financial services.
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Nov 25, 2020
The money, meant for businesses critical to national security, remains largely unspent almost eight months after Congress approved it.
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Nov 25, 2020
Millions of Americans now have access to free, anonymous coronavirus exposure notifications. Too bad so few people use them.
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Nov 25, 2020
Comcast will charge customers in the Northeast more if they exceed 1.2 terabytes of data in a month.
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Nov 25, 2020
The mail agency will digitize letters and gift wish lists sent to Kriss Kringle so "elves" can send presents to children and families.
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Nov 25, 2020
To watch scripted television in recent weeks is to believe Hollywood has steamrolled through the coronavirus pandemic. But the up-to-the-minute pandemic plotlines gild what insiders say has been a very tumultuous time.
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Nov 25, 2020
The action against OAN, which President Trump's allies have praised in recent weeks while raging against Fox News for supposed disloyalty during and after this month's election, was the latest sign that Silicon Valley remains prepared to enforce policies against false and misleading information.
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Nov 24, 2020
Investors cheer as the White House transition gets under way and Janet Yellen is tapped for treasury secretary — steps seen as progress in stabilizing the economy.
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Nov 24, 2020
If you lost your job or face eviction, a child and adolescent psychiatrist offers advice on how to prepare your kids for fewer presents this holiday season.
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Nov 24, 2020
Investors cheer as the White House transition gets under way and Janet Yellen is tapped for treasury secretary — steps seen as progress in stabilizing the economy.
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Nov 24, 2020
Cares Act tax breaks and the decision by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to cut off several Federal Reserve emergency aid programs were misguided.
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Nov 24, 2020
Wellshire used what consumer advocates describe as a loophole to a rule designed to prevent most lenders from qualifying for the Fed's Main Street pandemic-loan program.
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Nov 24, 2020
If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department since the institution was founded in 1789.
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Nov 24, 2020
If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department since the institution was founded in 1789.
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Nov 23, 2020
Though many grocery and retail chains offered extra pay — typically an additional $2 per hour — early in the pandemic, most have done away with those bonuses.
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Nov 23, 2020
"Withholding resources and vital information from an incoming administration puts the public and economic health and security of America at risk," the letter says.
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Nov 23, 2020
Trump's food box program granted contracts to middlemen and firms with no food industry connections, Rep. James E. Clyburn writes in letter to company.
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Nov 23, 2020
As a private citizen, President Trump will still have his personal accounts, his chosen megaphone throughout his presidency.
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Nov 23, 2020
"Withholding resources and vital information from an incoming administration puts the public and economic health and security of America at risk" the letter says.
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Nov 23, 2020
Wellshire used what consumer advocates describe as a loophole to a rule designed to prevent most lenders from qualifying for the Fed's Main Street pandemic-loan program.
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Nov 23, 2020
With more consumers shopping online this year because of the pandemic, scams to steal people's financial information and money are surging. Here's how to protect yourself during the holidays.
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Nov 21, 2020
The opening day of the virtual G-20 summit drew contrasts with Trump's go-it-alone approach.
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Nov 21, 2020
The Rockville company responded to the need for enclosed, secure places to put possessions.
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Nov 21, 2020
The head of the European Commission expressed hope that President-elect Biden would rebuild U.S. ties with the world.
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Nov 21, 2020
Health-care leaders say they are finding unexpected wariness among medical workers about taking the novel vaccines, based on concerns about President Trump's politicization of the government's reviews, their rapid development under Operation Warp Speed, and a lack of information about longer-term safety and effectiveness.
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Nov 20, 2020
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin curbing the Fed's powers is the latest blow to an economy that's limping along with few supports left after Dec. 31.
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Nov 20, 2020
Black-owned businesses stabilize neighborhoods, but their proprietors endure relentless racist roadblocks.
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Nov 19, 2020
Though Mnuchin also asked the Fed to return hundreds of billions of unspent Cares Act money, Treasury alone does not hold that power.
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Nov 19, 2020
The claims have remained above the pre-pandemic record of 695,000, from 1982, for 35 weeks.
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Nov 19, 2020
The claims have remained above the pre-pandemic record of 695,000, from 1982, for 35 weeks.
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Nov 19, 2020
The pandemic has forced retailers to rethink just about every part of the busy shopping season.
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Nov 19, 2020
Retail experts getting holiday shopping done early, because inventories are going to be light and shipping capacity challenged.
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Nov 19, 2020
Triathlons are slowly lurching to life in the United States. Next month, Challenge Family, Ironman's main competitor, will stage perhaps the most ambitious event yet.
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Nov 19, 2020
Families are gravitating to classics like Care Bears and Jenga, as well as stress-relieving newcomers like Theo the Therapy Dog, this season.
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Nov 19, 2020
Toilet paper and disinfecting wipes are once again being rationed, but grocery stores aren't worried about empty shelves like we saw in March and April
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Nov 19, 2020
Our boss is inept, but our new organization chief says there's nothing more she can do.
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Nov 19, 2020
U.S. carbon emissions are set to drop to the lowest level in three decades. A BloombergNEF study says an economic rebound next year won't completely offset this year's 9 percent decline, but that quick action is needed to get the United States back on track for its Paris climate accord commitments.
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Nov 18, 2020
A sizable number of the recipients of aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps are employed by some of the biggest and more profitable companies in the country.
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Nov 18, 2020
Warner Bros. surprises with a hybrid plan for releasing the much-anticipated film.
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Nov 18, 2020
The 11 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. gave Trump more total votes than all of rural America combined.
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Nov 18, 2020
With the virus spreading unchecked across much of the country, Thanksgiving gatherings could lead to Christmas funerals.
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Nov 18, 2020
Evictions, hunger, a spiraling economic crisis: A new study paints a portrait of the staggering toll that congressional inaction will have on the ranks of unemployed.
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Nov 18, 2020
Evictions, hunger, a spiraling economic crisis: A new study paints a portrait of the staggering toll that congressional inaction will have on the ranks of unemployed.
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Nov 18, 2020
Shelton's support narrowed after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would immediately quarantine. Three other GOP senators oppose her confirmation.
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Nov 17, 2020
The Small Business Administration has asked to delay production of its small-business loan records after a federal judge ordered they be made public by Nov. 19. The agency has not commented on whether it will appeal.
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Nov 17, 2020
The government needs talent from wherever it can find it, including outside the tight circle of Clinton-Obama alumni.
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Nov 17, 2020
Shelton's support narrowed after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would immediately quarantine. Three other GOP senators oppose her confirmation.
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Nov 17, 2020
Biden did not push for a compromise stimulus bill with Republicans, and he danced around questions about further school and business shutdowns.
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Nov 16, 2020
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee joins two other Republicans in opposing the nomination.
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Nov 16, 2020
The Amazon chief executive unveiled the first $791 million in donations from his $10 billion Earth Fund devoted to slowing down climate change.
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Nov 16, 2020
The Dow jumped more than 440 points after Moderna reported that its experimental coronavirus vaccine was nearly 95 percent effective.
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