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Global warming: 15 years to change things...
Apr 14, 2014
...or else, says The U.N.’s climate panel.
Wal-Mart: Everday low (organic?) prices
Apr 11, 2014
Wal-Mart is challenging stores like Whole Foods with a new line of cheaper organic foods.
Comcast says it needs to get bigger to compete
Apr 9, 2014
Comcast says it needs a Time Warner Cable merger to take on Google and Apple.
Banco Popular retreats toward its home base
Apr 8, 2014
The bank may shed its branches in Chicago and L.A.
Is this town the Luxembourg of Illinois sales tax?
Apr 7, 2014
Companies based in Chicago record sales in Kankakee and other towns outside the city to lower tax bills.
Keating's legacy, from John McCain to a camp classic
Apr 2, 2014
Remembering Charles Keating, a well-known face of the 80s-90s S&L crisis.
High-frequency trading in the spotlight
Apr 1, 2014
'Moneyball' author says HFT traders skim away others' profits
Unpaid water bill? Detroit will turn off the tap
Mar 28, 2014
Half the bankrupt city's residents are delinquent on their water bills. Businesses, schools and the city itself owe more than $50 million in unpaid water bills.
Outsourcing the NSA's phone-call database
Mar 25, 2014
Under proposals leaked this week, the National Security Agency would stop its blanket collection of phone-call data. Instead, phone companies would keep records, to be provided on court-sanctioned demand.
Amazon Prime could be too popular?
Mar 20, 2014
Analysts say Amazon could lose money by making its customers too loyal.