Business Stories from May 15, 2016 (Change date)
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'Captain America' tops, 'Money Monster' grabs $15 million at the box officeMay 17, 2016 2:13 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's "Captain America's" weekend at the box office once again by a large margin, but even with $72.6 million in earnings, the superhero pic left some ...
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NY senator: Put more dogs on the airport security lineMay 15, 2016 6:30 am - NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is urging the Transportation Security Administration to put more dogs on the passenger-screening line to reduce long delays for...
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World's biggest cruise ship sets sail from FranceMay 15, 2016 3:30 pm - PARIS (AP) - Tens of thousands of French well-wishers waved goodbye to the largest cruise ship in the world as it set sail on its maiden voyage to the U.K. after 32 mont...
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New website helps Germans and migrants meet, talk about lifeMay 15, 2016 4:30 am - BERLIN (AP) - During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany e...
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Chatbots are your newest, dumbest co-workersMay 16, 2016 8:17 am - Starting this July, when customer service employees at Overstock.com are too sick to come to work, they'll tell Mila they're not feeling well using an app on their phone...
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What the next president means for your portfolioMay 16, 2016 2:08 pm - With Donald Trump's decisive victory in Indiana, and Hillary Clinton looking like she will be the inevitable Democratic nominee, we finally know the November presidentia...
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Petrobras boomtown turns desolate as refinery's billions vanishMay 16, 2016 6:39 am - Located just 30 miles east of Rio de Janeiro's bustling Copacabana beach, Itaborai looks like many oil boomtowns after the bust - except the deserted stores and empty gl...
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Goldman Sachs gets into retail bankingMay 16, 2016 2:08 pm - NEW YORK - For 147 years, Goldman Sachs has been best known as a secretive, Wall Street dealmaker with the ear of the White House. It helps big institutions and billiona...
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Musk, in his on-site sleeping bag, keeps Tesla manufacturing on trackMay 16, 2016 6:39 am - Elon Musk, determined to turn his electric-car company into a great maker of things, said that he keeps a sleeping bag in a conference room adjacent to Tesla Motors's pr...
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Why it's hard to track rent increasesMay 15, 2016 7:43 am - If you're looking for an apartment to rent in Atlanta, you might be dismayed to learn that local rents surged 14 percent during the year that ended in February - at leas...