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  • Retail Warehouse full of Shelves with Goods in Cardboard Boxes, Workers Scan and Sort Packages, Move Inventory with Pallet Trucks and Forklifts. Product Distribution Delivery Center.
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    Also: Toyota wants to add an even bigger spark to its electrification efforts. We look at some of the best ways to ensure people use the hundreds of thousands of EV charging stations outlined in President Biden’s plans. How to nonprofit hospitals deal with gifts and donation in the form of cryptocurrency?

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  • The Chinese national flag is displayed in front of an Apple store in Shanghai on October 9, 2021.
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    Also today: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.

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  • Could the omicron coronavirus surge cancel another UK Christmas?
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    From the BBC World Service: The U.K. government is under pressure over tighter coronavirus restrictions including mandatory mask-wearing and so-called vaccine passports. A group of friends from the beauty industry are looking to challenge colourism within the South Asian community. A study finds that you don’t need to be exceptionally clever to pursue careers in rocket science or brain surgery.

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  • People wait to change money at an exchange office in Istanbul, on July 29, 2020. - According to reports, the Turkish Lira fell to a fresh record low on July 28, against major currencies, recording 7.05 Liras to the US Dollar and 8.20 to the Euro.
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    Also today: Julia Coronado joins us to discuss the markets, especially when it comes to what to expect from the Federal Reserve in the coming days.

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  • Turkey intervenes in currency markets as lira tumbles to fresh record low
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    From the BBC World Service: Turkey’s central bank is selling U.S. dollars to try stabilize the lira currency as another rate decision looms, the U.K. government is hiring around 2,000 investigators to help reclaim billions of dollars lost to benefits fraud and criminal gangs. A meeting in Geneva this week seeks to regulate investments in autonomous weapons like killer robots.

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  • Economists think inflation is likely to persist in 2022. To what extent? That's harder to say. Above, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 8.
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    Also today: A new cybersecurity threat has companies scrambling to patch up holes in their networks. The USDA recently announced a food purchase program to address deficiencies in local and regional food economies.

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  • NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 19:  A trader (c) on the New York Stock Exchange looks at stock rates 19 October 1987  as stocks were devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange's history.  The Dow Jones index plummeted over 200 points in record trading.
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    Also today: Tyson Foods is doing the robot – not the dance, but rather planning to spend billions to automate its processing plants. It’s not the only company thinking about doing this, either. We examine a program that puts formerly incarcerated women on a path to a job in tech.

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  • Tech companies are moving away from terms that could be considered racially insensitive, such as "master" and "slave."
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    Also today: The science journal Nature has a study that shows the effectiveness of seemingly small finance-based incentives to get people to do things like work out. We also look into how some independent bookstores have managed to flourish online.

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  • China flexes economic muscle as it marks 20 years of WTO membership
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    China is re-writing global trading rules as the WTO faces calls for reforms, U.K. economic growth disappoints, and European soccer clubs cash in on the cryptocurrency craze.

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