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China trade talks to take place in Beijing in early January

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State Minimum Wage Hike To Benefit Over 600 Thousand Workers

This upward adjustment happens every year. "With the historic increase in the minimum wage, NY continues to set a national example in the fight for economic j...

Amazon's Shares Jump 6 Percent After Record-Breaking Holiday Sales

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CenturyLink identifies issue that caused nationwide outage

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Despite the many comparisons to aliens and UFOs, officials had a perfectly normal explanation for the light: A transformer fire at the Con Edison utility site i...

No Private Labels, Exclusive Deals, Deep Discounts On E-Commerce Sites

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Trump May Ban US Firms From Cooperating With Huawei, ZTE in January

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Powell '100% safe' at Fed, says Trump's aide

Investors have closely followed news that the president had privately discussed firing Powell. Hassett also said Trump was happy with Treasury Secretary Ste...

Nikkei plunges over 1000 points to hit 20-month closing low

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U.S. stocks tumble after holiday-shortened session

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Oil Producers To Cut Oil Output By 2-3% To Boost Prices

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Tesla Model 3 prices drop in China for the third time

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Japan court OKs 10-day detention for Nissan's ex-chair Carlos Ghosn

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Arrested Gatwick Drone Suspects Released Without Charges

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Trump once boasted of market gains, now tweets cause drops

DJI fell 653.17 points, or 2.91 percent, to 21,792.2, the S&P 500.SPX lost 65.52 points, or 2.71 percent, to 2,351.1 and the Nasdaq Composite . IXIC dropped ...

Oil plunges 6% as economic slowdown fears grip market

Oil fell on Monday, in line with another decline across global stock markets , which came under pressure from concern about a USA government shutdown and a w...

Asia stocks fall despite Mnuchin's weekend triage

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Asian markets slump after Fed hikes rates

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Christmas Day opening hours: Is McDonald's open on Christmas Day 2018?

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