6 Most Important Things in Business Today

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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

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Nissan was charged with unfair labor practices in a battle over whether its plant in Canton, Mississippi, will be unionized by the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The charge was filed by the National Labor Relations Board.

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) may have a deal to partially operate the batteries at wind farms off the Massachusetts coast. According to Bloomberg:

Deepwater Wind LLC is proposing to pair Tesla Inc. batteries with massive offshore wind turbines as part of a bid to supply the state of Massachusetts with clean energy generated at sea.

The 144-megawatt development would stockpile electricity produced late at night, then deliver it when the grid needs it most, Deepwater Chief Executive Officer Jeff Grybowski said in an interview Monday.

Deepwater submitted its bid last week in response to a request from National Grid Plc, Unitil Corp. and Eversource Energy for about 9.45 million megawatt-hours of annual clean energy supply. The contracts — open to hydro-electric, solar and other forms of clean energy — require the majority of power to be delivered during late winter afternoons and evenings.

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Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: DISCA) has closed a much-rumored deal to buy Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ: SNI) for $11.9 billion.

BP PLC (NYSE: BP) posted a rare profit, partially because of cost cuts. Net income for the second quarter hit $553 million, compared to a loss of $2.2 billion last year in the same period. The company said the costs of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which totaled $60 billion, still plague it.

Another surge in the Dow put it close to the 22,000 mark, at 21,891.

BP said it expects the price of oil to be below $50 next year.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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