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• With retail inventories up 17% since last year, expect sales

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Retailers’ inventories in October were nearly 17% higher than a year before.

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• Homebuilder confidence drops for 12th straight month

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  High mortgage rates are causing homebuilders to pull back. A measure of sentiment has dropped to its lowest level since 2012.

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• In U.K. 4-day work week trial, companies see happier employees — and higher productivity

  by Stephen Beard

  

  70 U.K. companies have just completed a 6-month experiment with a shorter week with full pay – and early results are promising.

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• Water managers float idea of paying farmers to reduce use of Colorado River

  by Savannah Peters

  

  The seven states have until late January to agree on massive water conservation measures or the feds say they’ll impose cuts. 

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• How ‘Ivy’ clothes became a century-spanning fashion mainstay

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  “Ivy was a huge clothing phenomenon in the mid-20th century,” said Avery Trufelman, host of the podcast “Articles of Interest.” “And over time, it evolved into what was in the ’70s and ’80s called ‘preppy style,’ and what I argue now almost has no name at all.”

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