MIAMI — It seemed like a match made in finance heaven.In 2010, China, its economy roaring and state companies looking to expand globally, set its eyes on Latin America, a region starved of capital ...
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As an individual investor, you may not know much about the inner workings of the stock market. Or care.But it's starting to dawn on novice traders in GameStop and other gyrating stocks that what yo...
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Last week's initial jobless claims soared to 861,000, despite more states and cities lifting restrictive business measures amid a decline in the number of coronavirus cases. Economists had predicte...
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Who’s watching the kids? As vaccine and school progress stalls, working moms are on the brink
As progress toward mass vaccinations and reopening schools remains elusive, the toll on families — and on working mothers in particular — is mounting.Roughly 2.5 million women have left the workfor...
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The winter storm that devastated much of Texas this week left millions of residents without water and electricity — but some people were able to keep the lights on and heaters going thanks to vehic...
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As Texas deep freeze subsides, some households now face electricity bills as high as $10,000
As the Texas power grid collapsed under a historic winter storm, Jose Del Rio of Haltom City, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, saw the electricity bill on a vacant two-bedroom home he is trying to se...
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Bitcoin hit yet another record high on Friday, reaching a market capitalization of $1 trillion, blithely shrugging off analyst warnings that it is an "economic side show" and a poor hedge against a...
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