Business Stories from October 5, 2013 (Change date)
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Work Advice: How to navigate social situations outside the officeOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - Q: I am a young working professional on a team with others around my age. We get along great! The only problem is that the team is always trying to do happy hours and ou...
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Mutual fund trends: Index funds win againOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - NEW YORK — The numbers tell the story. The latest update on mutual fund performance is likely to widen the gap between investors who prefer index funds and those who fav...
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Families hoard cash 5 yrs after economic collapseOct 07, 2013 7:23 am - NEW YORK — Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in major c...
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Tips on figuring out student loan forgiveness plansOct 07, 2013 6:57 am - NEW YORK — Wish you could make your student loans disappear? Student loan forgiveness programs can make it happen, but there's a problem. “There needs to be more awaren...
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Documentaries put faces on cruel reality of marketsOct 07, 2013 6:57 am - For the past 20 years, my assignment at The Washington Post has been to explain and interpret arcane and complicated economic developments to general readers in ways tha...
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Daily Herald Media Group earns top business honorOct 07, 2013 4:51 pm - The Daily Herald Media Group won the Brian H. Burke Business of the Year designation Saturday night and was among several other businesses honored at the Schaumburg Busi...
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Religious institutions’ pensions prove not guaranteedOct 06, 2013 4:17 pm - PASSAIC, N.J. — Working at St. Mary’s Hospital was all about making do. When supply shelves emptied, respiratory therapist Lori-Ann Ligon made frantic calls to compatri...
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City seizes underwater mortgages to help struggling borrowersOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - Very early on a Wednesday morning in September, the city council of Richmond, Calif., did something that no American city had yet managed: It voted for a plan to wrest u...
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Obama to public: Don’t give up on health sign-upsOct 07, 2013 8:55 am - Associated Press WASHINGTON — Defending the shaky rollout of his health care law, President Barack Obama said frustrated Americans “definitely shouldn’t give up” on the ...
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Apple overtakes Coca-Cola as world’s most valuable brandOct 05, 2013 4:35 pm - Apple has unseated Coca-Cola as the world’s No. 1 brand, as the company founded by Steve Jobs is a leader in design and performance, according to a study of the Top 100 ...
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