Business
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Energy Was the Only Bright Spot in the Stock Market’s Gloom
The energy industry has become the stock market’s equivalent of a road hog. As financial markets around the world fell this spring on worries ...
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Netflix, Still Reeling, Bets Big on ‘The Gray Man’
Anthony and Joe Russo like to go big. In 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” the directing brothers shocked fans when they erased half the global ...
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Nikole Hannah-Jones and University Settle Hiring Dispute
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reached a settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The ...
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In a Digital World, These Drivers Like Their Analog Cars
To the extent that our brains are computers, they may have more in common with analog rather than digital machines — people don’t think in ...
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In a Twist, Old Coal Plants Help Deliver Renewable Power. Here’s How.
Across the country, aging and defunct coal-burning power plants are getting new lives as solar, battery and other renewable energy projects ...
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How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan
WASHINGTON — First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then, he shattered an ...
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Germany Hopes to Outrace a Russian Gas Cutoff and Bone Cold Winter
Russian natural gas has fired the furnaces that create molten stainless steel at Clemens Schmees’s family foundry since 1961, when his father set ...
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Stock Market Drop Accelerated as Recession Seemed More Likely
Investors had an awful start to the year as stocks twice entered bear market territory, falling more than 20 percent. Stocks didn’t hang there ...
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China’s Economy Hits a Slump as Covid Policy Takes a Toll
When countries around the world have stumbled in the face of pandemic headwinds, China has often stood apart, seemingly impervious to financial ...
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Democrats Propose Raising Taxes on Some High Earners to Bolster Medicare
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will push to raise taxes on some high-earning Americans and steer the money to improving the solvency of Medicare ...