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Saturday, September 7, 2024

California retailers trim staff as shoppers cool their spending

California retail spending in the year’s first five months – minus online shopping — rose only at a 1.2% annual rate.

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Surprising uptick for leases as Chinese companies snap up industrial properties

It’s a trend that caught many off guard, especially considering we’re typically in the slower, vacation-heavy months of the year.

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Tech review: Three vacuums to keep your floors clean

We all have floors, and they all get dirty. How you clean them will depend on what’s on those floors — are they hard surfaces or carpeted?

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Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner departs ISS for crewless trip home tonight

Boeing’s Starliner is set to complete its Crew Flight Test without the crew with an undocking Friday evening from the International Space Station and a trip back to Earth.

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LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business and closing all stores

Less than a month after filing Chapter 11, the company says it is “winding down operations” after failing to find a buyer.

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Laguna Niguel’s Ziggurat auction at $156.6 million after flurry of minimum bids

78 of the 88 bids made were $300,000 above the previous price

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How to avoid the new ‘shoulder season’ crowds

Some destinations are seeing a boom in travelers during shoulder seasons in spring and fall.

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Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers

In 2023 and 2024 the IRS launched a series of initiatives aimed at pursuing high-wealth individuals who have failed to pay their tax debts.

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Sluggish US jobs report clears way for Fed to cut interest rates

“The labor market is weakening,” said Eugenio Aleman, chief economist at Raymond James Financial. “It is not falling apart, but it is weakening.”

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Trump vows to ban mortgages for undocumented immigrants

Undocumented immigrants only make up a tiny portion of the mortgage market.

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