Business Stories from October 6, 2021 (Change date)
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Grains mostly lower, livestock mixed.Oct 06, 2021 10:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Grain futures were mostly lower on Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. was off 1.50 cents at $7.4825 a bushel; Dec. c...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute required innovative donationsOct 06, 2021 2:00 pm - The upcoming world premiere at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra of a classical music piece inspired by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would probably hav...
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Fed up by pandemic, US food workers launch rare strikesOct 06, 2021 6:30 pm - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into fall, as pandemic-weary workers continue to strike for better pay. Around 1,400...
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Australian defamation review to examine Facebook liabilityOct 06, 2021 12:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian review of defamation laws will likely examine whether platforms such as Facebook should be liable for users' defamatory posts, t...
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Asian shares rise as receding debt fears spur Wall St rallyOct 06, 2021 10:30 pm - TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares rose Thursday, tracking a rally on Wall Street after signs of progress on resolving the standoff in Congress over the debt ceiling. Japan's be...
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Amazon opens general store in UK, first outside the USOct 06, 2021 8:30 am - LONDON (AP) - Amazon on Wednesday opened its first general store outside the United States in a mall in Britain, selling the online retailer's most popular products incl...
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Grains mixed, livestock mixedOct 06, 2021 3:00 pm - Wheat for Dec. was up 1.25 cents at $7.46 a bushel; Dec. corn was off 5.25 cents at $5.3225 a bushel, Dec. oats rose 3 cents at $5.9775 a bushel; while Nov. soybeans fel...
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commoditiesOct 06, 2021 2:30 pm - Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery fell $1.50 to $77.43 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude oil for December delivery fell $1.48 to $81.08 a barrel. Wholesale ga...
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Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenanceOct 06, 2021 11:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said. San...
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IMF head meets with board probing data-rigging allegationsOct 06, 2021 6:30 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the International Monetary Fund met on Wednesday with her agency's executive board, which is conducting an investigation into alleged data-...