Business Stories from November 14, 2014 (Change date)
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Boston Scientific ordered to pay $26.7 million in mesh caseNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - Boston Scientific Corp. must pay $26.7 million to a group of four women who blamed the company's vaginal inserts for injuring them, a jury concluded in the first federal...
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Illinois health insurance enrollment starts SaturdayNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - CHICAGO - Shopping for health insurance starts all over again Saturday as a second round of enrollment begins under President Barack Obama's health care law. Last time a...
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Stock gains extend into 4th weekNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - NEW YORK - Stocks ended mostly higher on Friday as major indexes extended gains for a fourth week in a row, a rare stretch for this year. After flitting between tiny gai...
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Los Angeles police use data to target crimeNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police are increasingly relying on technology that not only tells patrol officers where crime is most likely to occur but also identifies and k...
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Alibaba said to seek $8 billion in bond for loan repaymentNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is planning to raise as much as $8 billion as soon as next week in its first U.S. bond sale, just two months after the Chinese company complet...
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Abe sales-tax rumor mill puts Yen into a spin with third strikeNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's sales- tax deliberations are sending the world's second-most traded currency pair into a spin. The yen tumbled to a seven-year low and then r...
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Buffett's power market with California faces pricing anomaliesNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - The regional power market that PacifiCorp, part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and California's grid operator created Nov. 1 is generating "pricing anomali...
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Airbus profit gains on plane deliveries and maintains outlookNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - Airbus Group NV said third-quarter profit gained 16 percent, beating analyst expectations, as it sold more high-value aircraft and brought its A380 super-jumbo program c...
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Metra unveils plans to prevent winter travel woesNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - Officials of Chicago's Metra commuter rail agency unveiled new snow-fighting equipment and communications strategies to deal with the cold. Metra CEO Don Orseno said Thu...
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Germany's economy returns to growth as France beats estimatesNov 14, 2014 12:01 am - The euro area's two largest economies returned to growth in the third quarter, signaling that a slow recovery has taken hold in the region. German gross domestic product...