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Disaster recovery spending could help revive inflation after Irma

Adrees Latif | Reuters An emergency worker clears a fallen tree after Hurricane Irma made landfall in Downtown Tampa, Florida, September 11, 2017. Citi Research’s chief U.S. equity strategist projects “a messy set of numbers” in the months to come after analyzing the destructive effect of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma …

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In the Art World, ‘Latinx’ Marks a Gender-Free Spot

“The word is a proposal to change the machismo in the culture and the language,” he said. For her part, Macarena Goméz-Barris used Chicanx repeatedly in her catalog essay on the photographer Laura Aguilar, a key artist in a West Hollywood exhibition about the area’s pre-AIDS “queer” art scene. “Her …

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Jefferies says cryptocurrency mining market is strong for Nvidia and AMD

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds the Nvidia Xavier high-end computing module as he speaks during a keynote presentation at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 4, 2017. Nvidia and AMD are the best-performing …

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Trump administration ends plan to strengthen homes in flood zones

Bryan Woolston | Reuters Flood water from Hurricane Irma surround a damaged mobile home in Bonita Springs, Florida, September 10, 2017. The Trump administration has ended a proposed rule about strengthening new and rebuilt homes in flood zones against damage, the New York Daily News reported Monday. The report, which …

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Here are some of the records Hurricane Irma set

Yamil Lage | AFP | Getty Images A Cuban wades through a flooded street in Havana, on September 10, 2017. Deadly Hurricane Irma battered central Cuba on Saturday, knocking down power lines, uprooting trees and ripping the roofs off homes as it headed towards Florida. Hurricane Irma has set some …

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Mexico rescinds Texas aid offer after huge quake

Ronaldo Schemidt | AFP | Getty Images View of damages caused by the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, state of Oaxaca on September 8, 2017. U.S.-Mexican relations have been strained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to curtail trade with Latin America’s No. …

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Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy

Once again, there was selfishness in the sorrow, a feeling of being deprived of a talent that still had so much to give, both to us and to a popular art form that always needs shaking up. And I don’t think Mr. Friedman was accorded his due as an innovator. …

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Out of the 5 most expensive stocks in the S&P 500, one could be a buy

“I like Amazon,” she said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” “Even though now it’s 200 times [expected earnings over the next 12 months] instead of 140 times a couple months ago, we still like it.” Gibbs explained that the valuation has climbed markedly after Amazon’s disappointing July earnings, which led …

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Meg Whitman joining Dropbox board

David A. Grogan | CNBC Meg Whitman, Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Dropbox has added high-profile Silicon Valley exec Meg Whitman to its board, according to a blog post by the cloud storage company. The CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise was …

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Here is how corporations in Atlanta are preparing for Irma

Getty Images In this NOAA-NASA GOES Project handout image, GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma as it makes landfall on the Florida coast on Sept. 10th, 2017. Corporations with headquarters in Atlanta are bracing for Irma on Monday as the now tropical storm bears down on Georgia. The National Weather Service …

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