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Domino’s Pizza shares drop even after earnings beat

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee removes a pizza from the oven at a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Rantoul, Illinois. Shares of Dominos fell 5 percent Thursday after the company beat earnings but disappointed some optimistic investors who were hoping for even better growth. Even though the …

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Review: Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ Tracks the Global Migrant Crisis

Photo A scene from “Human Flow,” Ai Weiwei’s documentary about the global refugee and migrant crisis. Credit Amazon Studios There are moments in “Human Flow,” a bracing, often strangely beautiful movie by the artist Ai Weiwei, when it can be hard to see the individuals who make up the roiling, …

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Morgan Stanley sees SpaceX value growing to more than $50 billion

Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, CEO for SpaceX, speaks during the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2016. Elon Musk is making rocket launches mundane and that could be worth tens of billions of dollars. SpaceX could become a $50 billion juggernaut through …

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Americans fearful over health care as Trump unveils new changes

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump smiles after signing an Executive Order regarding health insurance plans at the White House in Washington, October 12, 2017. Americans are watching the health care debate play out in Washington, D.C., and are fearful about what the outcome could mean for their care …

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Pound jumps versus dollar on report UK may get 2-year Brexit extension

The British pound erased earlier losses against the dollar on Thursday after a German newspaper Handelsblatt reported the United Kingdom could stay in the European Union for another two years. Sterling traded 0.42 percent higher at $1.3276 versus the greenback. “This maybe eases the tensions in the negotiations and gives …

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Equifax shares drop nearly 3 percent after new cyber breach

Equifax shares dropped 3 percent Thursday after it said it has disabled one of its customer help online pages and is investigating another possible cyberbreach. The consumer credit reporting company said its security teams are looking into another possible breach barely one month after it disclosed a hack that left …

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Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures

But “Travels With Myself and Another” is her most intimate book and not well-enough known. As Bill Buford wrote in his foreword to a 2001 reissue of it, in the complexity of her observations “she prefigures the works of people like Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban and …

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Equifax says it might have been breached again

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Richard Smith, former chairman and CEO of Equifax Inc., testifies before House Energy and Commerce hearing on “Oversight of the Equifax Data Breach: Answers for Consumers” on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 3, 2017. Equifax said on Thursday it has taken one of its customer help …

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This Dow stock just entered into a ‘death cross’

Shares of Nike just entered into a technical crossover that has some worried about further downside for the stock. On Wednesday, Nike moved into a “death cross,” an indicator in the charts that occurs when a stock’s 50-day moving average breaks below its 200-day moving average. In other words, Nike …

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Mnuchin backs key provision in GOP tax plan that would hurt Democrats

Getty Images President Donald Trump (R) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walk out of the Treasury building, April 21, 2017. Eliminating it would generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue needed to offset the money lost from lowering tax rates on individuals and corporations. For the tax years 2016 …

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