Business
What's behind Kohl's 170-hour pre-Christmas shopping marathon
Some 45 percent had not finished shopping this year because they expected stores to offer better prices just before the holidays, the poll showed, and 43 percent believed online shopping would let them purchase everything they need at the last minute.
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Arvind Kejriwal Says No Demolition To Take Place Without Rehabilitation
Stepping into the demolition row, the high court had come down heavily on the Railway Ministry and police for the drive and directed the authorities to immediately rehabilitate over 5,000 people rendered homeless. Terming the incident as inhuman, Delhi Minister Satyendra Jain alleged the demolition was carried out "to teach a lesson" to these people who had voted for Arvind Kejriwal.
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Dow, DuPont Confirm Plans to Merge - and Then Split
Dow Chemical Co., which has been paying $255 million annually in dividends to Warren Buffett for years, may have finally found a way to end that obligation. The split of three-ways will not occur for the next 18 to 24 months following the close of the deal, which is expected during the last six months of 2016.
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Are non-profit hospitals on their way out?
BlueMountain Capital Management LLC is paying up to $260 million to purchase the troubled Daughters of Charity Health System, the hospital said Monday, after the deal was conditionally approved by the California attorney general earlier this month.
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Current oil price slide will not continue
India is the world's third largest importer of crude oil behind only the United States and China. "It sold for that in 1859 but the first day's production broke the market" and sent prices tumbling ("Early and later history of petroleum" Henry, 1873).
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Yahoo shareholder wants Marissa Mayer gone
Although Mayer had promised that Yahoo will provide details on the new reverse spin-off at the company's upcoming fourth quarter financial meeting, Canyon Capital said Yahoo's current failure to provide "any clear details in terms of analysis, process or timing" was concerning.