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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — Would you let a stranger in your house to drop off a package? Amazon hopes so. The online retailer said Wednesday that it will launch a service next month called Amazon Key that would allow delivery people ...
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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — A financial report filed with the British government shows Donald Trump is losing millions for a third year in a row on a couple of his biggest investments: his Scottish golf resorts. A report from Britain's Companies ...
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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) TOKYO — The Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" survey shows an improved outlook for the world's third largest economy. The survey released Monday indicated growing shortages of factory capacity that could drive manufacturing investment to help drive growth. However, economists ...
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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — Playboy Enterprises has outlived the founder of its iconic magazine, though largely as a shadow of its former self. Hugh Hefner's Playboy, a magazine founded to celebrate his "Playboy Philosophy" of sexual freedom, influenced sexual mores and ...
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6 years, 8 months ago
(AP) One of the largest employers in Nevada is launching a donation match program benefiting civil rights organizations in light of the deadly Charlottesville protests. MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas Strip, said Friday that it ...
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6 years, 8 months ago
(AP) DETROIT — The new CEO of Ford Motor Co. says the company isn't taking its eyes off the present as it prepares for transportation in the future. Jim Hackett, who replaced Mark Fields in May, says new mobility projects such ...
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6 years, 8 months ago
(AP) BERLIN — The governor of one of Germany's biggest states says he allowed Volkswagen to vet a 2015 speech about the automaker's diesel scandal. German weekly Bild am Sonntag has reported that VW, which is part-owned by Lower Saxony state, ...
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6 years, 9 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes returned to their winning ways Tuesday, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index headed for a record after corporate profits continued to come in better than analysts expected. McDonald's and Caterpillar were among the ...
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6 years, 9 months ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed Monday to boost U.S. manufacturing by cutting the $64 billion trade deficit with Mexico as he showcased products made in all 50 states — everything from a fire truck to a baseball bat. "No ...
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6 years, 9 months ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — Americans curtailed their shopping in June, with less spending at restaurants, department stores and gasoline stations. The spending pullback came despite a healthy job market and suggests that economic growth could remain sluggish. Retail sales fell 0.2 percent ...
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6 years, 9 months ago
(AP) [{"text":"More real estate coverage","url":"https://vegasinc.com/business/real-estate/"}] SAN FRANCISCO — Yul Dorn and his wife raised their son and daughter in a three-bedroom home crammed with family photos, one they bought in a historically African-American neighborhood in San Francisco more than two decades ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) DETROIT — Drowning in a sea of lawsuits and recall costs, Japanese air bag maker Takata Corp. is expected to seek bankruptcy protection in Tokyo and the United States early Monday. Takata was done in by defective air bag inflators ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — Apple and other big-name technology stocks got back to their winning ways Monday and helped drive U.S. indexes once again to record heights. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 20.31 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,453.46 ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) Who hasn’t stared in admiration at a photo of a carefree-looking blogger and her new Chloe Faye handbag, romping around in stylish flats like she owns the internet? The bag would look good whether she wore distressed jeans or a ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) TOKYO — Money-losing Japanese nuclear and electronics company Toshiba Corp. will pay $3.68 billion toward the construction of two reactors in Georgia by its U.S. unit Westinghouse, which has filed for bankruptcy protection. Tokyo-based Toshiba said Saturday the payment, under ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) Iran company finalizes deal with Boeing to buy 60 planes TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that the country's Aseman Airlines has finalized a deal to purchase 60 planes from the American company Boeing. The Saturday ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) LONDON — British Airways canceled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports Saturday as a global IT failure causes severe disruption for travelers. The airline said it was suffering a "major IT systems failure" around the world. It didn't ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Getting new customers involved in more interactive experiences is going to be a big part of the future for casinos in the United States and around the world, participants in a major gambling conference predicted Wednesday. ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) MERIDIAN, Miss. — Call them the unrecovered — a handful of states where job markets, nine years later, are still struggling back to where they were before the recession. That's true in Mississippi, where job numbers and the overall size ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — Teen clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch Co., responding to reports that it was in talks with interested buyers, says it's in preliminary discussions with several parties about a "potential transaction." The company's statement Wednesday that it had ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes are mixed Wednesday following weak first-quarter reports from consumer-focused companies including Priceline and Disney. Drugmakers and other health care companies are also down. However energy companies are rallying with the price of oil. KEEPING ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes drifted around their record highs Tuesday as markets lazed through yet another day of listless trading. Treasury yields ticked higher, adding to gains made in recent weeks. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) RALEIGH, N.C. — Swiss bank Credit Suisse is adding 1,200 jobs at its North Carolina technology hub as it reorganizes operations and cuts jobs elsewhere. A North Carolina state panel has approved up to $40 million in tax breaks to ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) NEW YORK —U.S. stock indexes inched back from their record highs Monday, while the dollar ticked higher against other currencies. Trading was calm following the weekend's presidential election in France, which had the potential to upset global markets. The candidate ...
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6 years, 11 months ago
(AP) LONDON — When Emmanuel Macron topped the first round of voting in the French presidential election two weeks ago, French stocks soared to near-decade highs. On Monday, the reaction to his victory in the runoff was decidedly subdued: investors had ...
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