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Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cashiers ring up customers at registers inside a Wal-Mart Stores location in Burbank, California. Walmart has narrowed the competition for its credit card business to bids from two lenders, Capital One and its current card partner Synchrony Financial, according to a report …

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Donald Trump is seen speaking on a monitor as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2016. Semiconductor stocks headed lower Wednesday after the White House released a new list …

Walgreens isn’t the only one feeling the pressure of Amazon’s PillPack acquisition, as one Wall Street analyst copped to underestimating just how aggressively the e-commerce giant would disrupt drugstores. “We are downgrading shares of Walgreen … ending one of the more painful experiences I have endured in my 15 [plus] …

Caitlin O’Hara | Bloomberg | Getty Images Contractors work on the frame of a home under construction at the D.R. Horton Express Homes Magma Ranch housing development in Florence, Arizona.   Like so many states, Arizona is battling a housing shortage, and that takes construction workers. Employment in the sector is …

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee stocks cans of tobacco beside a display of Marlboro brand cigarettes inside a tobacco store in Nashville, TN.  With the fifth-highest violent-crime rate in the nation, the Volunteer State could still use some people to step up and start a neighborhood …

Getty Images Fair-housing advocates worry about the number of Oregonians being priced out of the housing market. Here, a view of Nob Hill and Westover neighborhoods from West Burnside & 20th in Portland, Oregon.  For the first time in 2018, Oregon began allowing motorists to pump their own gas, leaving …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images JetBlue Flight 387 pushes back from the gate as it prepares for take off to become the first scheduled commercial flight to Cuba since 1961 on August 31, 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Three U.S. airlines – American, JetBlue, and Southwest – are bidding to …

Vivien Killilea | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images LaCroix Sparkling Water at the EcoLuxe Lounge in Park City, Utah.  Nick Caporella, CEO of LaCroix parent company National Beverage, has been slapped with lawsuits by two pilots alleging sexual harassment, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The two former employees …

Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass in front of a Barnes and Noble Inc. store in New York, Nov. 24, 2013. Barnes & Noble said Tuesday that it has fired CEO Demos Parneros for violating company policies. The company did not specify exactly which policies were violated. …

Natalie Naccache | Bloomberg | Getty Images An attendee at the Dubai Air Show enters an aircraft on Nov. 13, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. United Arab Emirates aviation giant Etihad has announced a shake-up of its organization. From Tuesday, the Etihad Aviation Group is to be divided into …