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“I can share my screen with them, but I can’t, in real time, sit with them while they’re making the mistakes and show them where they’re making the mistakes,” he said. Mr. Kincaid’s current employer, Nexient, develops software for companies on a contract basis — work that is a prime candidate for outsourcing. But all […]

The question isn’t whether taxpayers in Arlington, Texas, got hosed when they agreed to spend a half-billion dollars for a new ballpark next door to the one they spent millions to build just 22 years earlier. They did, but in most parts of the country that’s the way the system works. Almost every new stadium

Asian stocks fell Friday as traders weighed data showing slower U.S. economic growth and the possible impact of an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The congressional inquiry into Trump is throwing more volatility into a market that already was nervous over U.S.-Chinese trade tension. “The impeachment of Trump will now become a drawn-out saga

Walkouts and sit-ins by the United Auto Workers helped secure contracts that lifted members into the middle class. Sept. 26, 2019 After 11 days and no deal, United Automobile Workers members are still on strike at General Motors factories across the United States. The strike is the longest walkout at G.M. since 1970, when workers

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The Trump administration’s trade war with China is largely to blame for stocks’ screeching halt on Wall Street since April, analysts and economists say. The benchmark S&P 500 index, a closely watched gauge of the stock market‘s performance, has risen just 1% this quarter, coming to a near standstill after a gain of 4% in

Shares of connected exercise machine company Peloton are drifting lower in their first day of public trading. The New York company’s stock opened at $27. In afternoon trading shares changed hands at $26.55 as the broader markets edged lower. Peloton offered 40 million shares at an initial public offering price of $29 per share, the

U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week following a sharp rise the week before, making September the most volatile month for the key 30-year loan since March. Mortgage rates have been running near historic lows, spurring prospective homebuyers, amid an uncertain economic outlook. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the 30-year, fixed-rate

U.S. stocks moved broadly lower in early trading Thursday as investors pulled back to a defensive stance as an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump moves along and U.S. economic growth slows. Technology stocks were among the biggest losers in the early going. Cisco Systems fell 1.6% and IBM shed 1.2%. The sector has been

Jacques Chirac, who molded the legacy of Charles de Gaulle into a personal power base that made him one of the dominant leaders of France across three decades and a vocal advocate of European unity, died on Thursday. He was 86. His death was confirmed by the Fondation Chirac in Paris. Mr. Chirac was elected