Business Stories from October 4, 2015 (Change date)
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Junk or AAA? Rating split plagues Chicago as it borrows billionsOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - What's Chicago's risk to municipal-bond investors? It depends on which credit-rating company you ask. In the eyes of Moody's Investors Service, most of the $20 billion o...
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Google's self-driving car offers smooth test rideOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif - Three SUVs - looking like they just pulled out of a car wash - sit waiting in front of the Google X headquarters. The Lexus logo has been stripped...
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Behold Tesla's very smart, very fast and very pricey SUVOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - The room was packed and excited in Fremont, California, as Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's new all-electric Model X SUV, so excited after long production delays that the crow...
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College residency rules sometimes force students to pay prohibitive costsOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - Housing and meal plans at many colleges and universities now cost more than tuition, and the dozens of colleges that require students to live in a campus dorm and eat in...
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A key tenet of Yellen's 'lowflation' call might be off the markOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - One of Janet Yellen's big reasons for thinking inflation will stay subdued may be built on a shaky foundation. During her latest speech, the Fed chair indicated that"att...
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Dundee-Crown students get hands-on experience in new business classOct 06, 2015 5:26 am - Students are getting real world experience in a new business class offered at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville. Business INCubator, taught by teachers Nichol...
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Bernanke: Wall St execs should have gone to jail for crisisOct 04, 2015 4:31 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says some Wall Street executives should have gone to jail for their roles in the financial crisis that gri...
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New Greek Parliament elects Syriza veteran as speakerOct 04, 2015 5:31 am - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's new Parliament, elected two weeks ago, has chosen Syriza deputy Nikos Voutsis as its speaker. Voutsis got 181 votes from 297 voting lawmak...
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Elon Musk reflects on his brutal workloadOct 05, 2015 6:43 am - Elon Musk is a notorious workaholic. As the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla has long made clear, he doesn't really need much vacation. He's described lounging on the...
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Portugal government re-elected despite painful austerityOct 04, 2015 11:31 pm - LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's center-right coalition government earned another four-year term Sunday, winning a general election behind an improving economy that we...