After slowdown, strong growth forecast for Mass.
The state’s unemployment rate, which was 6.4 percent in April, is expected to decline to 5.2 percent by the end of 2017, a report predicts.
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The state’s unemployment rate, which was 6.4 percent in April, is expected to decline to 5.2 percent by the end of 2017, a report predicts.
If the Fed were to let interest rates rise, it would ‘‘carry a substantial risk” to the economic recovery, Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
Lois Lerner, who heads the office that decides whether groups qualify for tax exemptions, declined to speak after delivering a statement to lawmakers.
Thousands of homeowners have received mortgage assistance from major US lenders as part of a national settlement with a multistate group of attorneys general.
The Somerville company has grown from two guys selling chocolate bars from the back of their bicycles to a 60-employee manufacturing operation.
The drug, called Plegridy, is a new version of the Weston biotechnology company’s first — and hugely successful — MS treatment, Avonex.
Decision postponed on new rules for eel fisheryRegulators postponed making a decision on new rules for Maine’s lucrative American eel fishery.
Shareholder activists sought to force the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman to give up the latter job.
The Senate questioned chief executive Timothy Cook over allegations that Apple’s Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in US taxes.
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Some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say that a conventional education can’t possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need.
The visually dramatic black-and-white floor in the entryway of this spacious center entrance Colonial signals what lies ahead.
Quarterly net income rose 18 percent to $1.23 billion, or 83 cents a share, at the world’s biggest home-improvement chain.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals said it had commenced an underwritten public offering of 10.5 million shares of Class A common stock.
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