Business Stories from October 2, 2019 (Change date)
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Big Tech's eco-pledges aren't slowing its pursuit of Big OilOct 03, 2019 6:18 am - Employee activism and outside pressure have pushed big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google into promising to slash their carbon emissions. But there's anoth...
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Royal Shakespeare Company ends partnership with BPOct 02, 2019 9:02 am - LONDON (AP) - The Royal Shakespeare Company is ending its partnership with BP after student climate demonstrators protested the cultural institution's partnership with t...
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Lawsuits: Nation’s biggest railway companies fixed pricesOct 02, 2019 5:01 pm - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - More than two dozen major companies ranging from Campbell’s Soup to Kia sued the nation’s four biggest railway companies, contending they had a p...
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Construction worker dies at BP’s NW Indiana oil refineryOct 02, 2019 3:05 pm - WHITING, Ind. (AP) - An accident has killed a construction worker at BP’s sprawling northwestern Indiana oil refinery. BP says a contract worker was injured Wednesday ...
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The Latest: EU Parliament’s Brexit official cautious on planOct 02, 2019 1:31 pm - MANCHESTER, England (AP) - The Latest on Brexit and British politics (all times local): 7:10 p.m. The European Parliament’s chief Brexit official said the British gove...
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Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flopsOct 02, 2019 4:01 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - After high-profile flops, Microsoft is getting back into smartphones with a dual-screen Android device that won’t be out for another year. Microsoft un...
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Asian stocks fall further on economy worriesOct 02, 2019 11:01 pm - BEIJING (AP) - Asian stocks fell for a fourth day Thursday as weaker U.S. manufacturing and hiring data fueled jitters about the global economy. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fel...
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Mercury Insurance ends fight with California for record $41MOct 02, 2019 3:01 pm - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Mercury Insurance Co. is ending its two-decade battle with California regulators over extra fees charged to customers by agreeing to pay the st...
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Survey: Businesses added just 135,000 jobs in SeptemberOct 03, 2019 2:46 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. companies added a modest 135,000 jobs in September, a private survey found, a sign that hiring is slowing as the trade war takes a toll on the eco...
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US impeachment drama ensnares Ukraine at a crucial momentOct 02, 2019 1:31 pm - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Many Ukrainians are shrugging off efforts in the U.S. to impeach President Donald Trump as someone else’s problem, but they are worried about one ...