Unless Gen Xers and late baby boomers are able to make big changes in their savings, spending and debt habits, they are on track to become the nation’s first generations to fare more poorly than earlier groups of retirees, according to a new study from the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts. At the same time, early [...]
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(Adds details to tea) By Ed Osmond LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) – England‘s James Anderson took his 300th test wicket as New Zealand limped to 54 for two in reply to the hosts’ 232 at tea on the second day of the first test at Lord’s on Friday. The touring side lost opener Hamish Rutherford [...]
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By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) – The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. “This is a game changer,” Louis Uccellini, who took over as director of the National Weather Service in [...]
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Apple iPhone DoD approval granted The United States Department of Defense on Friday approved the use of Apple devices running iOS 6 on its networks, Bloomberg reported. The iPhone will compete with BlackBerry 10 and Samsung KNOX devices, which received approval earlier this month. The Pentagon has continued to test alternative platforms to give employees [...]
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BAYONNE, N.J. — The most expensive hospital in America is not set amid the swaying palm trees of Beverly Hills or the luxury townhouses of New York’s Upper East Side. It is in a faded blue-collar town 11 miles from Midtown Manhattan. Based on the bills it submits to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical Center charged [...]
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PARIS (AP) — Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $ 1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said the [...]
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca has enrolled the first patient into a final-stage clinical trial of a new drug for a rare type of leukemia as the group’s new CEO delivers on a promise to accelerate its oncology programs. Britain’s second-biggest drugmaker said on Thursday the Phase III clinical trial would test moxetumomab [...]
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17 May 2013
Last updated at 05:53 ET
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, is going into business with internet grocer Ocado. Morrisons says it has agreed a deal that will enable it to launch an online grocery service by January 2014. The delivery vans will carry the Morrisons brand, with logistical [...]
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Dear Driving for Dollars,Will my credit score go up if I pay off the remaining balance on my car loan?– Stacey Dear Stacey,Paying off an installment loan — a loan that is for a fixed amount for a set term such as a car loan or a mortgage — will not cause a significant boost [...]
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Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times In a joint venture, the Washington-based Fundrise is bidding to develop a lot near the Manhattan Bridge. The practice of crowdfunding real estate is spreading from South America — where Prodigy Network recently raised around $ 239 million from 3,100 Colombians to build a 66-story skyscraper in Bogotá — [...]
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