Business Stories from August 4, 2016 (Change date)
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Investment banker testifies at his insider trading trialAug 04, 2016 5:31 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - An investment banker charged with teaming with his father to use inside information to make money in the stock market insisted from the witness stand Thu...
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Wal-Mart launches new scheduling systemAug 04, 2016 7:30 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, has launched a new scheduling system in about 650 Neighborhood Market stores that gives hourly workers m...
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Amtrak: New locomotives have cut delays nearly 25 percentAug 04, 2016 8:30 pm - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The introduction of 70 new locomotives on Amtrak's most heavily traveled line three years ago has contributed to a reduction in engine-related delays...
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Breaking up the bundle? Dish relegates ESPN to an add-onAug 04, 2016 10:30 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dish Network is offering a new "skinny" bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesn't include ESPN and some other sports channels, giving people who don...
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The Latest: Feds: Joint border inspections reduce wait timesAug 04, 2016 2:30 pm - NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - The Latest on joint U.S.-Mexico border inspections (all times local): 12:10 p.m. Authorities say that wait times for cargo trucks at an Arizona bor...
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Guess what happened next: Facebook battles 'clickbait'Aug 04, 2016 6:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook is taking another stab at ridding users' news feeds of "clickbait," the links and headlines that ask readers to "guess what happened next" but d...
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The Latest: UK central bank chief: more stimulus possibleAug 04, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The Latest on the U.K. central bank's stimulus measures to help the economy weather the Brexit uncertainty (all times local): 12:55 p.m. The governor of th...
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Ford recalls 830K vehicles to fix faulty door latchesAug 04, 2016 9:30 am - DETROIT (AP) - Ford is recalling about 830,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Mexico because parts in the side door latches can break and the doors can open while the vehicles...
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Wells Fargo says small business optimism ticks up slightlyAug 05, 2016 8:24 am - Small business owners showed a modest uptick in optimism in a survey released Thursday by Wells Fargo & Co. The bank's Small Business Index, which measures owners' senti...
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Requests for US unemployment aid rise to still-low 269,000Aug 05, 2016 1:18 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but the number of remained close to historic lows in a positive sign for the job market. TH...