Calculations by Bloomberg based on the Dutch statistics office's trade monitor show a 1.9 percent drop in the three months through February
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U.S. stock indexes finished mostly lower Thursday as disappointing earnings reports from several industrial-sector companies weighed on the market, offsetting strong results from Facebook, Microsoft and others. 3M, which makes Post-it notes and many other …
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How can I describe the fine of between $3 billion and $5 billion that Facebook is likely to pay to the Federal Trade Commission — which will doubtlessly be touted as its largest ever — to settle the government’s inquiry into what the social networking giant …
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Despite elevated housing costs, concerns that millennials are fleeing Canada’s largest cities are “greatly exaggerated,” RBC Economics said Thursday. For every millennial leaving the Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal areas for elsewhere in their respective …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Uber plans to set a price range for its initial public offering that would value it at as much as $90 billion, a person with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday, in a sign of caution amid a flood of highly hyped tech offerings. The world’s …
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