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• Texas’ high tech sector buzzes along amid industry downturn

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  High tech represents nearly 5% of state GDP and more than 9% of employment. What makes the state’s sector so resilient?

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• Lowe's and Target report earnings

  Some retail earnings reports out this week are giving us a look at the state of the U.S. consumer — and it ain’t pretty. Lowe’s reported yesterday, and we just heard from Target this morning. What do those earnings reveal?

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• Cubans facing some of the bleakest economic times since the Cold War

  by Will Grant

  Worsening inflation, a scarcity of basic goods and a decadeslong U.S. economic embargo are sending Cubans reeling. And sugar production — once Cuba’s most important and profitable trade — is nearing collapse.

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