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Daily business news and economic stories
  • Disappointing GDP, the SEC's new rules, ranking colleges by economic potential, and the NFL pays taxes.

  • Oil company profits, Japan's currency, and millennials in the suburbs.

  • An update on aid in Nepal, a look at retirement plans for veterans, and changes to the TVA.

  • The merger that never was, and revisiting the terrible collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh.

  • Rent goes up, Brazilian oil goes down, and Target caters to Hispanic millennials.

  • More on the alleged culprit behind the "Flash Crash," Google's wireless service, and California's drought.

  • Google's tidying up, the Time Warner Cable-Comcast merger, and the business of reruns.

  • China's economy, the NBA in Cuba, and a developing story about a ship carrying hundreds of migrant workers.

  • As this week comes to an end, we have a consensus that the fed will not raise the cost of borrowing in June anymore. But then came some inflation data today. For more on that, we consult Christopher Low, chief economist at FTN Financial in New York. Next, Yale University’s med school is weighing its next move […]

  • Airing on Thursday, April 16, 2015: There’s word today that Japan has overtaken China as the number one foreign holder of US treasuries. I’m speaking of Japanese pension funds, the Japanese government and other Japanese investors. We consult Adolfo Laurenti, chief international economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago on the shift to US debt. Plus, […]