Finance
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Green Energy Casts a Shadow Over a Cherished English Landscape
Charlotte Banks lives in a house that just about anyone would envy. Hempnalls Hall, a pink structure dating to the…
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The Wager That Betting Can Change the World
I had never before attended a business conference with a 28 percent chance of an orgy. But those were the…
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Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating?
UPS, the Hollywood studios and the Detroit automakers appear to have been taken aback by the tactics and tougher style…
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Interested in an Electric Vehicle? Consider Buying Used.
The prices of used battery-powered models have fallen sharply, as the supply of cars and trucks has improved.
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When Did Cashing Savings Bonds Become So Impossible?
Citing potential fraud, banks are making it increasingly difficult to pay out savings bonds. An unlikely beneficiary is the federal…
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How Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Struck a New Kind of Movie Deal
A recent change in antitrust law made it easier for the singers to bypass big movie studios when seeking distribution…
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In Provence, Winemakers Confront Climate Change
“You can taste the climate change.” Frédéric Chaudière, a third-generation winemaker in the French village of Mormoiron, took a sip…
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U.A.W. Does Not Expand Strikes at Automakers
The United Automobile Workers said on Friday it had secured an important concession from General Motors regarding the contracts of…
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Investing Has Been Ugly. Stick With It Anyway.
Most people have lost money in the markets over the last several months, but people who have held on have…
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The U.S. added 336,000 jobs in September.
In a sign of continued economic stamina, payrolls grew by 336,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said…