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Claims Fell to 197,000 While Tech Announced 155,126 Cuts. Check the Denominator.

Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 197,000 in the week ending 19 September, the Labor Department reported on Thursday, with the insured unemployment rate at 1.1 per cent. Challenger, Gray & Christmas counts 155,126 announced job cuts in technology through August, up 52 per cent on last year and 29 per cent of every cut announced in the United States. Both numbers are correct, and the reason they do not collide is the denominator.

By Daniel Okafor 5 hours ago

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Beyond Dental Work, Mexico Is Drawing a Different Kind of Medical Tourist

Medical tourism to Mexico was built on procedures that finish in a day. A smaller set of centers is now selling residential stays of several weeks to patients with chronic illness, on a model that trades speed for duration and sits largely outside the conventional evidence base.

By Cory Chamberlain 23 hours ago

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Meta's Answer to the Camera Problem Is a Pair of Glasses With No Camera

By Alison Acosta 27 hours ago

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Ten Streaming Services Disappeared Last Quarter. None of Them Took an Audience With It.

By Thomas Gutierrez 28 hours ago

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Oura's Listing Raises $532 Million for the Company. It Keeps About $6 Million.

By Daniel Okafor 29 hours ago

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Google Knew for Seven Weeks. Its Customers Found Out From a Newspaper.

By Alison Acosta September 23, 2026

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Xbox Is Three Quarters of the Way Through Its Reset. Halo Changed Hands on the Way.

By Margaret Holloway September 23, 2026

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Fox Paid $440 Million for a Library of Cheap Films. It Now Bills More Than $1 Billion a Year.

By Thomas Gutierrez September 23, 2026

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A Student Loan Refinancer Now Holds the 47th Largest Deposit Base in America

By Daniel Okafor September 23, 2026

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Apple's Second Round of Cuts Went After the Content It Has to Keep Making

By Alison Acosta September 22, 2026

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The Cinema Ad Company Just Borrowed More Than the Stock Market Says It Is Worth

By Thomas Gutierrez September 22, 2026

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Stocks Had Their Best Day Since August. The Two-Year Treasury Did Not Move.

By Daniel Okafor September 22, 2026

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Paramount Settles With the States Nine Days Before the Meter Starts

By Cory Chamberlain September 21, 2026

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Three Newsrooms Lost Their White House Passes on Saturday. No One Named a Story.

By Thomas Gutierrez September 20, 2026

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Fox Won August by One Measure and Lost a Fifth of Its Audience by the Other

By Thomas Gutierrez September 19, 2026

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Saudi Arabia Spends $83 Billion a Year. Its Pipeline Is Burning and It Has Not Answered.

By Margaret Holloway September 19, 2026

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The Catch-Up Contribution Changes Hands in 2027, Not 2026

By Daniel Okafor September 19, 2026

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Delaware Was Supposed to Be Losing Companies. It Registered 334,461 New Ones.

By Margaret Holloway September 18, 2026

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Yields Touched Five Percent and Then Fell. The Market Read the Hike as a Promise.

By Daniel Okafor September 17, 2026

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Why Did the Senate Vote Twice on the Same Bill in Three Days?

By Cory Chamberlain September 17, 2026

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