Tag: business and industry sector
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Four charts explaining the Southwest Airlines crisis
CNN — An outburst of severe winter weather last week canceled thousands of Southwest Airlines flights and completely disrupted the flight system. It claims to have had little success. But experts say the Southwest turmoil is actually the culmination of problems that have been building up over the years. The beleaguered airlines have canceled more…
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Around 14,000 customers impacted after substations in Tacoma vandalized by burglars
CNN — About 14,000 customers in Puyallup and Graham, Wash., were affected Sunday after robbers destroyed three substations belonging to Tacoma Utilities and Puget Sound Energy, police said. No suspects are in custody at this time, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department added in a statement Sunday. The sheriff’s department said their agency first received a…
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PCE, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, shows prices cooling
Minneapolis CNN — The trend is clear. Inflation is calming down in America. The Federal Reserve’s favorable inflation measurement shows inflation to remain modest in November, another welcome sign that a period of painfully high prices has peaked. . The Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index (PCE) rose 5.5% in November from a year earlier, the…
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Winter storm’s icy cold and wind knocks out power to over a million customers
CNN — A massive winter storm hitting the United States with frigid temperatures, high winds and heavy snow left power outages for more than a million customers as of Friday morning, prompting more than a dozen governors to create contingency plans. I was. The storm, which is expected to intensify throughout the day as it…
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A Covid-19 ‘senior wave’ is driving up hospitalizations
CNN — Linda Stewart got worried a few weeks ago when she felt a tickle in her throat. She is a 76-year-old woman who is fully aware of the risks posed to her and her husband’s health by Covid-19, the flu and other colds sweeping the United States during a severe season of respiratory viruses.…
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Winter storm puts millions under alerts coast-to-coast as record-low temps and power outages arrive before Christmas
CNN — Massive winter storms hitting the United States with temperatures plummeting from coast to coast left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, prompting a dozen governors to prepare contingency plans ahead of Christmas weekend. I urged you to create The storm is on its way to intensify on Friday, bringing heavy…
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NFL Sunday Ticket is leaving DirecTV and heading to YouTube TV
New York CNN — The popular NFL Sunday Ticket package is leaving DirectTV and moving to YouTube TV. The NFL announced a partnership with Google-owned YouTube TV on Thursday. It follows years of speculation as to which media company will next own the Sunday Ticket rights to broadcast every unmarketed NFL game to fans. The…
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Thursday flight cancellations top 1,200 nationwide, disrupting holiday travel
CNN — More than 1,400 flights across the United States have been canceled as severe winter weather threatens vacation travel, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. As of Thursday morning, 1,486 flights have been canceled nationwide. More than 700 US flights have already been canceled on Friday. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport leads the way, followed…