Business Stories from February 4, 2021 (Change date)
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US regulators launch review of stock market turbulenceFeb 04, 2021 5:30 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's top financial markets regulators say they will look into whether recent stock market turbulence is an indication that current trading prac...
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More GameStops possible as small investors flex musclesFeb 04, 2021 2:30 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - GameStop and a handful of other stocks whose meteoric rise last month shocked Wall Street began falling back to Earth this week. But the campaign that...
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Denmark to build North Sea island to serve as wind power hubFeb 04, 2021 5:30 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Denmark has agreed to build an island in the North Sea that would gather and distribute electricity from wind energy farms. The 210-billion kr...
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Nokia profit dips as it sees challenges in US market for 5GFeb 04, 2021 4:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - The Finnish telecommunications networks provider Nokia on Thursday reported a smaller than expected drop in profit in the fourth-quarter while it acknowl...
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Boeing to outsource IT work to Dell, eliminate 600 jobsFeb 05, 2021 1:34 pm - SEATTLE (AP) - Boeing Co. has said it will outsource a significant amount of information technology work to Dell starting in April, including support of cloud services, ...
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US unemployment claims fall to 779,000 but job cuts grind onFeb 04, 2021 8:31 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined to 779,000 last week, a still-historically high total that shows that a sizable number o...
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Mexico vows to press ahead to favor state-owned utilityFeb 04, 2021 1:30 pm - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico vowed Thursday to continue with attempts to limit private power generation after the Supreme Court ruled against President Andrés Manuel Lópe...
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Biden team pitches US on big virus aid as Senate starts workFeb 04, 2021 5:05 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - As senators launched an all-night session Thursday to lay groundwork for President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the White House ...
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Canada Goose, PayPal rise; Cognizant, Grubhub fallFeb 04, 2021 2:30 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Merck & Co., down $1.29 to $76.03. The pharmaceutical company's fourth-quarter prof...
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UK strips Chinese state-owned TV channel of broadcast permitFeb 04, 2021 10:01 am - LONDON (AP) - U.K. regulators stripped China's state TV channel of its national broadcasting license on Thursday, after an investigation cited lack of editorial control ...