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• Retail broker TD Ameritrade buys Scottrade in $4 billion deal

  by Adam Allington

  

  Retail broker TD Ameritrade has announced it’s buying competitor Scottrade in a $4 billion deal, hoping to shore up the low-cost stock trading industry as it deals with declining revenue and growth. Online brokerages helped popularize trading for the masses in the 90s, but now they’re under pressure as investors move to more passive investing […]

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• Can the AT&T and Time Warner deal win over regulators?

  by Mark Garrison

  

  The $85.4 billion merger is in for a tough legal fight.

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• Tracking market reaction to the 2016 election

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  How did markets respond during the first presidential debate?

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• In a decade marked by success, Taylor Swift shows some keen business chops

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Taylor Swift, the country-turned-pop-singer-megastar-phenom dropped her self-titled debut album on this day a decade ago. Ten years, multiple Grammys, four more albums and a bunch of number-one hits later, she took the top spot on Forbes Highest-Paid Celebrities list this year with a cool $170 million. Along the way, Taylor Swift has developed — and isn’t afraid […]

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• Doctors cut costs by getting to know their patients

  by Dan Gorenstein

  

  Accountable Care Organizations find efficiencies in unexpected places.

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• Girl Scout cookie cereal is coming next year

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Another reason to look forward to the end of 2016

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• How YouTube became YouTube, told with YouTube videos

  by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

  

  CEO Susan Wojcicki talks about running YouTube and watching Palo Alto — her hometown and the city at the heart of Silicon Valley — grow.

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