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National Labor Relations Board going after Reuters in Twitter case
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Apr 7, 2011
An employee of Thomson Reuters tweeted something critical of her company's management. Now the NLRB will file a complaint against Thomson Reuters...
MID-DAY UPDATE: China announces trade deficit, Eurozone debt crisis escalates
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Mar 10, 2011
A surprise from China today -- the country said it bought more goods from around the world than it sold. It's called a trade deficit. And China...
The best and worst cities for jobs
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Sep 21, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department will release its February jobs report on Friday. And that got us thinking about - location, location, location. The...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Mixed job indicators, changes to home loan requirements
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Mar 2, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department releases its monthly jobs report Friday, but other key job indicators give us a sense of what to expect. Job placement...
Support for labor unions vs. support for big corporations
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Sep 21, 2011
These final notes today. First of all, a follow-up to our item earlier this week about the guy in Philadelphia who's trying to foreclose on Wells...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Sanofi-Aventis buys Genzyme, inflation is up for January
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Feb 16, 2011
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis announced this morning that it will buy American biotech firm Genzyme -- bringing to end over six...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Chevron's $9 billion fine; NYSE merges with Deutsche Boerse; daily deal overdose
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Feb 15, 2011
An Ecuadorean judge has fined American oil company Chevron for more than $9 billion in a case that has spanned a decade. The lawsuit began in 1990s...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Jobless claims, Suez Canal workers' strike, NYSE merger
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Feb 10, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department this morning announced weekly jobless claims fell to 383,000, the lowest level in nearly three years....
MID-DAY UPDATE: January job numbers, German stock market, and banana wars
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Feb 4, 2011
Big news from the U.S. Labor Department today. The unemployment rate is down to 9 percent -- the lowest it's been in almost two years. At the same...
Midday Update: Job numbers, calorie counts, and Romanian witches
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Jan 7, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department's jobs report threw us for a loop today. The nation's unemployment rate fell from 9.8 to 9.4 percent today -- the lowest...
