Business Stories from January 25, 2021 (Change date)
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Job losses from virus 4 times as bad as '09 financial crisisJan 25, 2021 6:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009, a U.N. report ...
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commoditiesJan 25, 2021 6:00 am - Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery rose 50 cents to $52.77 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for March delivery rose 47 cents to $55.88 a barrel. Wholesale gasol...
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Smaller investors face down hedge funds, as GameStop soarsJan 25, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A head-scratching David and Goliath story is playing out on Wall Street over the stock price of a money-losing video game retailer. An army of smaller-p...
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Vaccine is 'our ticket back to normalcy,' but experts warn herd immunity is months awayJan 25, 2021 4:30 am - Cheering on your favorite sports team in a packed stadium. Singing along with musicians at a sold-out concert. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers at a bar. Pus...
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Vernon Hills COVID aid for restaurants would waive fees, taxJan 25, 2021 4:30 am - Dozens of restaurants in Vernon Hills may get a substantive boost from a village assistance package that could total as much as $250,000. Rather than giving direct finan...
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Cascade Drive-in reopening still faces 'a number of obstacles' in West ChicagoJan 25, 2021 4:30 am - Moviegoers are still waiting for the show to start at the beloved Cascade Drive-in, a shuttered theater in West Chicago trying to stage a comeback. Almost four months af...
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In ambulances, an unseen, unwelcome passenger: COVID-19Jan 25, 2021 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES - It's crowded in the back of the ambulance. Two emergency medical technicians, the patient, the gurney - and an unseen and unwelcome passenger lurking in th...
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Bartlett officials offer early praise for proposed 146-unit apartment complexJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - Bartlett officials have largely praised a plan to transform a family's 15-acre unincorporated property off Naperville Road into a 146-unit apartment complex that would b...
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Merck ends development of two potential COVID-19 vaccinesJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - Merck is giving up on two potential COVID-19 vaccines following poor results in early-stage studies. The drugmaker said Monday that it will focus instead on studying two...
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Biden plans to sign order for government to buy more U.S. goodsJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - President Joe Biden plans to sign on Monday an executive order that aims to boost government purchases from U.S. manufacturers, according to administrat...