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Dow Jones industrials sink 700 points as bond yields rise

Oct 10, 2018
Companies that have been big winners, including tech firms, suffered steep declines.
Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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U.S. unemployment rate falls to 49-year low of 3.7 percent

Oct 5, 2018
America's economic expansion is now the second-longest on record, having already surpassed the boom of the 1960s.
A store advertises that they are hiring in lower Manhattan on June 1, 2018 in New York, New York.
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Amazon ups wages for 350K, says it will advocate better pay

Oct 2, 2018
Employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon now owns, will get the same pay hike. Amazon's hourly operations and customer service employees, some who already make $15 per hour, will also see a wage increase.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a press conference in Santa Monica, California.
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SEC files complaint against Tesla’s Elon Musk

Sep 27, 2018
The commission is asking for an order that would stop Musk from being “an officer or director” of any public company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during an event to launch the Model X Crossover SUV in 2015 in Fremont, California.
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Iran says U.S. wants to overthrow its government, rejects two-way talks

Sep 25, 2018
At the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian president accuses the Trump administration of violating “state obligations.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25.
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China raises tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods in technology fight

Sep 18, 2018
The announcement followed a warning by an American business group that a "downward spiral" in their conflict appeared certain following Trump's penalties on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
Chinese and US flags are seen on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the maintenance room of a dealership in Shanghai on August 24, 2018. - From Harley-Davidson motorcycles and US bourbon to Chinese parts and machinery, the world's two largest economies have exchanged punitive tariffs that slice through a wide swath of products.
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US hiring picked up in August as pay surged most in 9 years

Sep 7, 2018
The economy added a strong 201,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate stayed at 3.9 percent, near an 18-year low.
A 'help wanted' sign hangs on a window of a restaurant on June 1, 2018 in Miami, Florida.
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Facebook, Twitter pledge to defend against foreign intrusion

Sep 5, 2018
Facebook’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, and Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, testified before the Senate intelligence committee.
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey are sworn-in for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, Sept. 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. 
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Nation’s top student loan official resigns

Aug 27, 2018
Seth Frotman is latest high-level departure from the CFPB since Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, took over.
A student walks on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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