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  • Oct 11, 2018

    U.S. tightens foreign investment rules

    Some sensitive industries — everything from technology to defense firms — will face tougher federal scrutiny under new regulations formalized Wednesday. The Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, announced its pilot program will take effect in 30 days. The announcement has some innovation, defense and tech companies scrambling to comply so they […]

  • Oct 11, 2018

    Sears teeters on the edge of bankruptcy

    Customers shop at Chicago's last remaining Sears store on May 3, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
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    The company is more than $5.6 billion in debt.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Why rock is still king on the concert circuit

    Why rock is still king on the concert circuit
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    Hip-hop/R&B is America's most popular genre, according to Nielsen, but rock concerts still rake in revenue.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Here are some reasons why China’s currency is sinking

    An employee counts 100-yuan notes at a bank in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 23, 2018.
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    One U.S. dollar today is worth about 9.92 Chinese yuan. That’s down nearly 10 percent from where it was last spring. That drop has the attention of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said Wednesday he wants to make sure China is not doing “competitive devaluations.” That’s when a country seeks an advantage by making its […]

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Japan expands use of foreign "interns" to address labor shortage

    Workers at the Tsuda Shoten fish plant in Kamaishi, Japan. About 10 percent of the workers are non-Japanese “interns” who come through a special government program.
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    The unemployment rate is just 2.4 percent in Japan; the country is filling the job gaps with a controversial program for foreign interns.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Duke Energy CEO on the future of energy

    Lynn Good, president and CEO of Duke Energy, speaks at the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit in 2015 in Harrison, New York.
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    The company's big challenge is keeping pace with technology.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    IMF forecasts slower global growth

    The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it’s shaving off some of its earlier optimism about world economic growth over the next couple years. It has downgraded its growth forecast for this year from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent, and for next year, the IMF has ticked the world’s growth down from 2.7 percent to 2.5 […]

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Is the Google Plus data breach a threat to Google’s business?

    Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced new privacy measures that include shutting down its social network Google Plus. The decision comes after news this week that Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users. We’re talking full names, email addresses, birth dates, profile photos and more. Google opted not to […]

  • Oct 9, 2018

    U.S. Census Bureau will be looking to hire field workers in a competitive labor market

    The U.S. Census Bureau says it needs to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to complete the 2020 census. But since the economy is in such good shape, with unemployment down to 3.7 percent in September, that hiring task may be a lot harder than it was back in 2010. And the census faces more […]

  • Oct 9, 2018

    How Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer redefined economics

    “I’ve been really disappointed that we just haven’t had the kind of political environment where we can think about speeding up technological progress,” Paul Romer said Monday.
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    Economists comment on what makes Romer’s views unique.