Business Stories from August 28, 2020 (Change date)
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Elon Musk wants YOU to build a brain-computer interfaceAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffic problems. He also wants to get ...
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Workday, Nutanix rise; Ollie's, Big Lots fallAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Friday: Workday, Inc., up $27.25 to $243.88. The business software company raised its subscription reve...
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Grains mostly higher, livestock lowerAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - \CHICAGO (AP) - Grain futures were mostly higher on Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. gained .048 cent at $5.4320 a bushel; Sept. co...
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Manufacturing defect leads Boeing to ground several 787 jetsAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - Boeing has found manufacturing defects on some of its 787 long-range airliners in areas where parts of the fuselage are joined together, the latest setback for the aircr...
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Mercedes gets big electric van order from AmazonAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Amazon says it's buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz, the biggest such order for the German automaker to date. In announcing the order F...
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S&P 500 rises to close out longest weekly win streak of 2020Aug 28, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The gains keep piling up on Wall Street, and the S&P 500 rallied again on Friday to close out its fifth straight winning week. The benchmark index rose 2...
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New Zealand investigating stock market cyber attacksAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand's government and its foreign spy agency are getting involved after cyber attacks disrupted trading on the nation's stock marke...
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commoditiesAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell 7 cents to $42.97 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for October delivery fell 4 cents to $45.05 a barrel. Wholesale gas...
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Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboardAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan's SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads...
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In a week of layoffs, MGM Resorts adds 18,000 moreAug 28, 2020 7:00 am - MGM Resorts is laying off 18,000 people as an unchecked pandemic leaves economic scars across a broad swath of U.S. industries, particularly those that rely on healthy c...