Economic surge in Mass. predicted for 2014
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.
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.
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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.
A growing number of empty nesters are finding the challenges, strain, and sometimes elation of dismantling homes they have lived in for decades.
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