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Of the 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, only Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is showing a gain in Friday trading, up about 0.5% in the noon hour. Other blue-chippers are down...
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As with commodity markets in energy and basic materials, the U.K. vote to abandon the European Union is taking a toll on agricultural commodities markets Friday morning. So far, at least, ag...
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Earlier this month, the state of California’s GDP passed that of France to become the sixth largest in the world. The country just ahead of California, in fifth place, is the United Kingdom, where...
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Thursday’s U.K. vote to leave the European Union has one certain effect: trade among the nations of Europe will be more complicated. Automakers face some significant issues whether they build cars...
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A group billing itself as a community of 30 million people standing together for good has launched a petition urging Wal-Mart to cease its current practices of selling live fish.
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Perhaps the move for a rapid exit by Britain from the European Union (or Brexit) may have been interrupted due to a political murder of M.P. Jo Cox on Thursday. As this was a member of parliament,...
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Here are two stocks that likely will benefit from the chaos that surely will ensue if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union on June 23.
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The Washington, D.C., city council on Tuesday approved unanimously a measure to raise the city's minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2020.
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In a recent survey of sustainability experts, national governments are rated at the bottom of a list of organizations for their contributions to progress on sustainable development since the 1992...
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These two companies that are going to get torrents of positive press as election season heats up and two of the most divisive candidates in election history go at each other’s throats over the...
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Unlike several past winters, this last one was relatively wet in California, relieving drought conditions in the northern part of the state and allowing the state to lift some of water restrictions.
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Donald Trump told an audience in Fresno, Calif., Friday that "there is no drought" and that the state has "a water problem that is so insane."
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It now appears that the U.S. Senate’s unanimous vote on a bill that would have exposed the Saudi Arabian government to American lawsuits over alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks was a sham.
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Assuming Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, it's time to start thinking about which industries are exposed more to a Clinton presidency and which to a Trump one.
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Some 1,500 holders of Amazon.com have signed on to a letter calling for the online retailer to stop selling Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's menswear line.
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