First Amendment concerns under Trump head news summary including fugitive physician, shrinking federal docket and a registry of exonerated convicts.
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Read More »November 14, 2016 Comments Off on Trumped-up First Amendment concern grows
First Amendment concerns under Trump head news summary including fugitive physician, shrinking federal docket and a registry of exonerated convicts.
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Read More »September 14, 2015 Comments Off on Lockheed Martin named to the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
Lockheed Martin has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 2015 for a second consecutive year, the company announced today. The 2015 Index represents the top 10 percent of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global ...
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Read More »August 24, 2015 Comments Off on Stocks slump; Dow briefly plunges 1,000 points
U.S. stocks slumped again Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging more than 1,000 points at one point in a sell-off that sent a shiver of fear from Wall Street to Main Street. Stocks regained some of that ground ...
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Read More »July 8, 2014 Comments Off on U.S. companies post most jobs in 7 years in May
U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years, a sign that this year's strong hiring trend is likely to continue.
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Read More »June 6, 2014 Comments Off on U.S. employers add 217K jobs; rate stays at 6.3 pct
U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs in May, a substantial gain for a fourth straight month, fueling hopes that the economy will accelerate after a grim start to the year.
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Read More »October 17, 2013 Comments Off on Wall Street puts its focus back on earnings, not D.C.
NEW YORK — The stock market hit an all-time high Thursday as investors put the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis behind them and focused on corporate earnings. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 11.61 points, or 0.7 percent, ...
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Read More »January 23, 2013 Comments Off on Strong news from IBM lifts Dow to 5-year high
NEW YORK — Strong earnings from tech giants nudged the stock market to a five-year high Wednesday. Investors drew encouragement from a vote by the House of Representatives to let the government keep paying all of its bills for another ...
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Read More »June 21, 2012 Comments Off on Weak U.S. job market weighs on broader economy
WASHINGTON — The sluggish job market is weighing on the U.S. economy three years after the Great Recession ended and it doesn’t look to be getting much better any time soon. A measure of the number of people applying for ...
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Read More »May 10, 2012 Comments Off on With Apple in, Dow would have set record long ago
Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world’s best-known stock index. So don’t they deserve each other? Consider this: If Apple had been added to the Dow in June 2009, the last ...
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Read More »March 4, 2012 Comments Off on Marianne D. Fishler: Assessing risk can be, well, risky
Life is full of risks. Usually we can identify risk and measure it. In our personal lives, it is deciding whether to speed up or slow down when confronted with a yellow light, crossing the street quickly to avoid a ...
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