Latest and Breaking Business News and Top Stories - July 1
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The USD is unchanged; Commodities are unchanged; and Treasury yields are up only 2-3bps... but that didn;t stop July 1st from being a banner day for US equity markets (on the back of missed PMI and ISM data ). The Dow, Russell 2000, and ...
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Civil servants in the PCS union are to join a co-ordinated public sector strike day on 10 July after voting to strike over pay.
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An explosion at a General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) stamping plant in Marion, Indiana has hurt multiple people on Tuesday, according to WishTV . Police evacuated the plant after the explosion however a reporter on the scene noted there was...
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Casino revenue in Macau fell in June by 3.7% year on year to 27.2 billion Macau patacas (US$3.4 billion), according to figures released Tuesday by Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). The early smart money pins the f...
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Hobby Lobby refuses to cover birth control, but the company's 401(k) plan has funds that invest in companies which make contraceptives, including the Plan B 'morning after' pill.
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In American society, 'debt' and 'income' have become increasingly synonymous over the past 3 decades; but as Rick Santelli blasts (commonsensically), "they certainly shouldn't be." It appears the average joe...
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The Federal Trade Commission unveiled a complaint Tuesday alleging that T-Mobile earned a windfall in recent years from third-party merchants offering bogus SMS subscriptions.
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This past December, Microsoft acknowledged that many of its customers have serious concerns about government surveillance on the Internet. This is why Microsoft pledged to expand encryption, reinforce legal protections for customer data ...
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Facebook has grown up. The emotion manipulation study is a legacy scandal.
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Americans are participating in, watching and engaging in soccer activities in record numbers. Los Angeles leads the list of the U.S. cities with the best fans.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Most major automakers reported better-than-expected U.S. sales in June, capping a strong second-quarter comeback from a brutal winter, but some companies displayed signs of softening demand for their most popular models.
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Jeff Kilburg says gold will replace coffee as the best performing commodity in the second half of 2014.
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ESPN's live streams have logged over 23 million viewing hours during the 2014 World Cup, making it the most-streamed live sporting event ever
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - American Airlines Group is close to finalizing an order for 200 CFM International engines, worth $2.6 billion at list prices, to equip 100 Airbus Group NV A320neo jetliners that the airline has on firm order, accordin...
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If McDonald's had to list all the ingredients of Chicken McNuggets in their commercials, we might never eat again. Such is the premise of this segment from " Redacted Tonight ," RT America's political comedy show hosted by comedian Lee C...
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Email beats out social media for gaining customers, and more people are expected to have addresses in the next few years.
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US auto makers just printed an annualized 16.98 million sales - dramatically beating expectations for the 2nd month in a row and the highest since July 2006. As we warned earlier, the reason is clear (massive extension of credit to the l...
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Facebook apologized for its study of how people’s emotions are affected by social media posts. And it’s not the first mea culpa for the company.
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The Dow Jones industrial average comes within a whisker of a 17,000 milestone as the third quarter begins.
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If you want to let the world know how much you love Ruth Bader Ginsburg after the Supreme Court justice issued a scathing 35-page dissent of the court's recent Hobby Lobby decision, we have you covered. Awesome T-shirt designs have quick...
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Who has the most buzz for Team USA and Team Belgium right up to the match? Here's graphs from SAP showing the details
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VideoIf there was one game I never thought I'd see released in CD Projekt RED's Witcher franchise, it would be a free-to-play online battle arena game built for smartphones and tablets. So naturally that's exactly the game the Polish dev...
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Russia's Lavrov urged a halt to Ukraine's military operation against separatist rebels in the east, warning of a new round of bloodshed.
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Berkshire Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Portillo's for close to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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(Updates with official confirmation from France, companies)
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Twitter shuffled its executive ranks once again, appointing a well-known tech banker as its chief financial officer.
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Twitter shuffled its executive ranks once again, appointing a well-known tech banker as its chief financial officer.
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* New fund positioning at Q3 start helps platinum -analyst * Gold turns lower after rallying to near 2-month high * Biggest gold ETF sees largest inflow since early March * Coming up: U.S. ADP private-sector job data Weds (Adds comment, ...
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(Add Honda, Hyundai sales, analyst comment, updates GM and Ford stock prices)
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In the never-ending battle between holdout hedge fund creditors led by Paul Singer's Elliott Management and the government of Argentina, both sides are trying to play from a position of strength, but in reality they are both weak.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday announced a $10 million settlement with the British bank HSBC, accusing it of fraud over the way it submitted fees to the government when foreclosing on homeowners.
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The Federal Trade Commission said the carrier made hundreds of millions of dollars from premium texting services that consumers never ordered.
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A long-running privacy lawsuit may damage the company’s efforts to expand its technology to the home, the body and vehicles.
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The success of the U.S. at the World Cup hasn't just meant mega-TV ratings, but also a spike in merchandise sales.
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Nadiene Raia has 20 years of hands-on, leadership experience in the ever-changing B2B and B2C advertising, marketing and publishing world. Throughout her career, she has developed and executed creative marketing and advertising strategie...
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An investigation showed that a defective buckle that caused a recall on forward-facing car seats affected the safety of rear-facing types, too.
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An explosion was reported at a General Motors plant in Marion, Indiana, according to local media. The blast involved chlorine, local NBC affiliate WTHR reported . Multiple people were injured, a GM spokeswoman told WISH-TV . Workers were...
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This article is by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, VP, Marketing Insights for the Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud and author of AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans, and Followers. For more information, visit www.AudiencePro.com...
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While it’s usually possible to effectively optimize an existing website, it’s generally most efficient to build the necessary SEO components into the site design and architecture right from the get-go. Whether you’re hiring a designer, u...
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FTC accuses T-Mobile of billing customers for bogus charges
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Nike is one big winner at the fiery World Cup soccer games!
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General Motors said it posted its best June since 2007, even as it recalled millions of autos this year
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It really doesn't get any more ridiculous than Marketwatch's question du jour . As for the right answer, is it " because your name isn't Jamie Dimon" ? Lest someone is confused about the context, Marketwatch also helpfully explain...
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - French bank BNP Paribas has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and agreed to pay almost $9 billion to resolve accusations that it had violated U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Cuba and Iran, in a se...
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NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - Scrutiny by U.S. regulators is reshaping the leveraged loan market as bankers complain that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency enforces leveraged lending guidance more stringently than the Federal ...
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About 10 years ago, a politician asked us to find an example of a family farm in the area that had been financially wiped out because of the federal estate tax (or “death tax” as he called it). He was not pleased when we were unable to o...
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At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,692 13-F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13-F filers. For each component, we tota...
