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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.
The Transportation Department unexpectedly postponed a vote on a lease agreement for the $500 million project.
This is the first test of the ability of the new Health Policy Commission to influence the hospital consolidation trend in Mass.
The European Union took a major step in tackling tax-dodgers by pushing to end bank secrecy across the bloc by year’s end.
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino toured the new steel-clad “District Hall” on Wednesday, a victory lap of sorts.
Tech Lab
Don’t let bloatware suck your phone’s memory: Delete apps you don’t need, shut off Facebook notifications, and clear the cache.
CEO pay has been heading in one direction for the past three years: up. In 2012, it increased an average of 6.5 percent.
If the Fed were to let interest rates rise, it would ‘‘carry a substantial risk” to the economic recovery, Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
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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.
Carnival Corp. said discounts it offered to boost booking led to “lower than anticipated net revenue yields.”
The latest results were just shy of the 27 cents per share that analysts polled by FactSet expected, on average.
Syre writes about local business, economics, and markets on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Bray is a technology writer. His Tech Lab column appears on Thursdays, and Tech Lab Plus on Mondays.
Kirsner’s Innovation Economy column appears in the Boston Sunday Globe, and excerpts from his blog appear on Mondays.
A growing number of empty nesters are finding the challenges, strain, and sometimes elation of dismantling homes they have lived in for decades.
Winter 2012 edition
Celebrating 12 people who are breaking down barriers in Boston, plus local leaders give a status check on diversity in the city and state.
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Fishy businessA 2011 Globe investigation found widespread seafood mislabeling at Massachusetts stores and restaurants. A 2012 follow-up found not much has changed.
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