Business Stories from November 24, 2019 (Change date)
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Web inventor has an ambitious plan to take back the netNov 24, 2019 4:30 pm - World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has released an ambitious rule book for online governance - a bill of rights and obligations for the internet - designed to count...
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Novartis to buy The Medicines Company for $9.7 billionNov 24, 2019 3:31 pm - Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has reached a deal to buy cholesterol drugmaker The Medicines Co. for $9.7 billion. Novartis will pay $85 per share for the New Jer...
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'˜Frozen 2' heats up box office with $127M opening weekendDec 05, 2019 4:55 pm - NEW YORK - Six years after "Frozen" kicked up a pop-culture blizzard, the sequel to Elsa, Anna and Olaf's adventures snowed-in the box office with an estimated $127 mill...
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The new Ford Mustang is electric. But battery-powered cars raise questions for workers.Nov 25, 2019 7:44 am - The newest Ford Mustang made a splash when it was unveiled last weekend. An all-electric SUV, the vehicle has enough room for a cooler under its hood and can reportedly ...
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Wipe out credit card debt by setting SMART goalsNov 25, 2019 7:44 am - Shatoria Smith was tired of the $5,000 in credit card debt she felt was blocking her from reaching her financial goals. She couldn't see an easy path to being debt-free,...
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5 signs an online loan is a debt trapNov 25, 2019 7:44 am - As you scan the crowded pages of Google search results for a low-cost loan, it can be difficult to decipher reputable lenders from predatory ones. These lenders, who use...
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Personal loans are 'growing like a weed,' a potential warning sign for the U.S. economyNov 25, 2019 7:44 am -
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Plagued by robocalls offering health insurance? You're not alone.Nov 25, 2019 7:44 am - The calls kept coming, one after the other, offering health insurance that Alex Boeger said he didn't need. Tired of the interruptions, the Houston-area marketing and We...
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5 financial tasks you should tackle by year's endNov 26, 2019 5:26 am - A task without a deadline is just wishful thinking. Sometimes, you can get away with procrastinating. If you never get around to alphabetizing your spices, no one's life...
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How Wheaton College grad's property to rent became a business to sellDec 02, 2019 7:51 am - WASHINGTON — Karl Scarlett's business can be traced to a nasty spat with a tenant who would not leave a rental property he owned in Washington. “She wouldn't pay her ren...