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Feeling pressured? Americans pushed to overspend this holiday season

by Justin Ho and Leila Goldstein
Nov 20, 2018
New survey finds nearly half of Americans feel pressured to overspend on gifts.
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How delivery apps are changing the restaurant industry

by Sam Harnett
Nov 19, 2018
"We have to adapt every single thing we do," one eatery owner says.
Sara Deseran and Joe Hargrave have made changes to their restaurant to adapt to third-party apps.
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Can a company boss have too much power?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Nov 19, 2018
The chairman of Nissan Motors, Carlos Ghosn, has been arrested by Japanese prosecutors. He’s accused of underreporting his income on financial statements. Nissan says it’ll fire him this week and Nissan’s CEO says Ghosn’s arrest shows that too much power had been concentrated in one person for too long. Click the audio player above to […]
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What layoffs in the mortgage industry say about our economy

by Justin Ho
Nov 16, 2018
It’s been a year of transition for Wells Fargo after a series of scandals in its consumer banking business. The company’s paid billions of dollars in penalties and just announced it’s cutting 900 jobs in its mortgage division. The job cuts are part of a big restructuring plan the bank announced back in September, with […]
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Apple casts itself as a Hollywood mogul

by Erika Beras
Nov 16, 2018
Deal with Oscar-winning film studio will produce streaming content to compete with Netflix, Amazon.
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Divided Decade

How temp workers became the norm in America

by Scott Tong
Nov 15, 2018
10 years after the Great Recession companies have increased their dependence on non-permanent workers.
Nissan auto factory workers (from left to right) Eric Hearn, Travis Parks and Antonio Ivy. 
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Trade showdown

Electronics makers caught in the trade war

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Nov 15, 2018
For one electronics maker, over half of their components come from China. They're on the tariff list.
Close of the motherboard of a digital decoder at the Technicolor plant on October 24, 2012 in Angers. The Commercial Court of Nanterre ordered last week the liquidation of the plant, the last production unit of the French group in Europe, specializing in the manufacture of digital decoders. 
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USPS $3.9 billion from being in the black

by Jed Kim
Nov 15, 2018
The U.S. Postal Service lost almost $4 billion during the 2018 fiscal year.
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Brick-and-mortar retailers try a new approach to combat losses to internet sales

by Ben Bradford
Nov 14, 2018
Have you been to a mall lately?
A Macy's sign is seen on a Macy's store at CityPlace after reports indicate that it is one of 68 stores that the company plans on closing on January 5, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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What will Amazon HQ2 mean for rents in Long Island City?

by Marielle Segarra
Nov 13, 2018
Residents fear the area will become unaffordable.
A view of the waterfront of Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York, along the East River.
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