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Wall Street tallying up windfall it will get from Trump tax plan

When it comes to taxes, the formula gets a little trickier for banks. Questions over interest and expense deductibility, how much the plans would impact loan growth and some other nuances make the math harder to calculate. However, large banks likely would see 2018 earnings per share jump by 12 …

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Saudi Aramco IPO schedule ‘is not slipping,’ says Saudi energy minister

Heinz-Peter Bader | Reuters Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak (L) and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih leave a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, December 10, 2016. Saudi Arabia’s energy minister told CNBC on Thursday that progress is …

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In Disney’s Seedy Shadow, the Magic and Hardship of ‘The Florida Project’

“If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures and minorities, the less marginalized they will be,” he wrote. The idea for “The Florida Project” came about five years ago, inspired by news stories about families — the “hidden homeless” — living hand-to-mouth in cheap motels after losing jobs and …

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Trump administration asks Congress for $29 billion in hurricane relief

Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images People walk accros a flooded street in Juana Matos, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017 as the country faced dangerous flooding and an island-wide power outage following Hurricane Maria. The White House has asked Congress for $29 billion in disaster aid to cover …

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What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Scandal’ and ‘Blade Runner’

Photo Kerry Washington in “Scandal.” Credit ABC/Richard Cartwright Olivia Pope returns to the White House, and “The Good Place” continues in the Bad Place. What’s on TV SCANDAL 9 p.m. on ABC. What a long, lustful, murderous, twisty road it’s been. Shonda Rhimes’s smash hit soap enters its seventh and …

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Dollar moves and Australia data in focus

Toshifumi Kitamura | AFP | Getty Images Pedestrians are reflected in the window of a securities company showing stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on October 3, 2017. Asia traded mixed on Thursday, with some Australian retailers faltering after lower-than-expected sales data showed consumers Down Under were …

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Stephen Colbert Uses Profanity to Describe President Trump’s ‘Soul’

Photo Stephen Colbert earlier this year. Credit Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Stephen Colbert used a harsh profanity to describe President Trump on Wednesday during an appearance on stage at Michael Moore’s one-man Broadway play, “The Terms of My Surrender.” Mr. Colbert, the host of “The Late Show” …

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GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire after reports of affair

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Representative Tim Murphy, a Republican from Pennsylvania and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Republican Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania has announced plans to retire at the end of this term — amid tawdry revelations of an …

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Whitney Museum Unveils Plans for David Hammons Artwork in the Hudson

During the comment portion of the committee meeting, a few residents questioned whether garbage would collect in the water around the artwork’s poles — the Whitney said it would evaluate that — and whether there would be information on site about the history of the pier (the Whitney said it …

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South Korea and US to push forward on KORUS trade talks

Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump (R) meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the White House Oval Office in Washington, U.S., June 30, 2017. South Korea indicated on Wednesday it was open to talks on revising a 2012 trade pact with the United States after initial differences …

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