08/04/2017: Who’s benefiting from this economic climate?

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• Why are we increasingly becoming passive investors?

  by David Brancaccio

  

  The search for that one great undervalued company is becoming less common.

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• Strong jobs market boosts demographic groups that usually lag in employment

  by Mitchell Hartman

  As unemployment continues to fall and employers scramble to find the workers they need, demographic groups that traditionally lag economically are benefiting. The unemployment rate for African-Americans fell to 7.1 percent in June, just shy of the all-time low of 7 percent hit in April 2000. Unemployment rates for young people and those with a […]

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• Hassle-free returns will apply to all sellers on Amazon’s site from October

  by Aaron Schrank

  Amazon announced this week that it’s going to apply its hassle-free returns policy to all items purchased on the website from October. That’s good news for consumers, but it’s a new burden for some third-party Amazon sellers, who, until now, could have policies of their own.  Click the audio player above to hear the full […]

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• Timeshare owners are suing the U.S. Virgin Islands over new fee

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  U.S. Virgin Islands faces lawsuit over a $25 a day fee to shore up its $2 billion bond debt.

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• 08/04/2017: The Fed’s next course of action

  by David Brancaccio

  Last month's jobs report is officially in: the U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July, with the unemployment rate ticking down to 4.3 percent. Christopher Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, joined us to put the numbers into context and share how he thinks Janet Yellen and co. might react to the report. Afterwards, we'll discuss the U.S. Virgin Islands' economic woes, which it's trying to help solve by imposing $25-a-day timeshare fees.

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• U.S. gains 209,000 jobs, unemployment rate falls to 4.3 percent

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  However, wage growth remains slow.

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