Business

• Billionaire investor Bill Ackman would consider deal with Elon Musk’s X: report

  2-10-2023 Business NY Post - Business 49

  Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd, said that it will pursue business combinations with privately-held companies after receiving regulatory...

• Recent NYC retail leasing scene fuels skepticism despite luxury retail leasing boom

  2-10-2023 Business NY Post - Business 47

  The retail leasing scene not including restaurants is such a mixed picture that it’s hard to make easy generalizations. To brokers’ and analysts’...

• CBRE survey finds ‘observably livelier’ streets in Downtown and Midtown due to restaurant boom

  2-10-2023 Business NY Post - Business 52

  Scores of new restaurant leases are “restoring vibrancy” to midtown and downtown, according to a new CBRE survey. Citing “observably livelier”...

• Nigeria's leader increases wages to avert a strike that could shut down the government

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 63

  Nigeria's leader increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could...

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• Rishi Sunak hopes a dash of populism will do the trick to rally flagging Conservatives

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 25

  U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak heads to the governing Conservative Party's annual conference on Sunday facing a triple challenge: Cheer up a party...

• FTX sex orgies, role-playing and board games: Ex-employee responds to wild claims at doomed crypto digs

  1-10-2023 Business NY Post - Business 37

  “If there were orgies, I lived right next door," Baradwaj told The Post. "I would have heard it from my balcony ... If you gave them some alcohol...

• Shutdown averted: Speaker McCarthy's 'clean' stopgap funding bill easily passes Senate

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 52

  Congress managed to stop a government shutdown with just hours to spare on Saturday, with the Senate giving final approval to a temporary spending...

• McCarthy not worried about job after needing Dem votes to pass stop-gap spending measure

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 37

  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy boasted about gaining enough support to pass a 45-day stopgap spending measure requiring Democrat votes to pass the...

• House passes temporary spending bill to avoid midnight shutdown, bill heads to Senate

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 32

  In an unexpected twist, the House on Saturday passed a stopgap spending bill with just hours until a government shutdown with Democrats providing...

• Rep. Gaetz says Kevin McCarthy's speakership is on 'tenuous' ground

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 36

  Rep. Matt Gaetz told reporters Saturday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's speakership is on shaky ground over a failure to bring his conference...

• Bathrooms at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport win Best Restroom contest

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 35

  Recently renovated restrooms at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport have received national acclaim, winning the 2023...

• Democratic lawmaker suspected of pulling fire alarm to delay vote on McCarthy's 'clean' stopgap bill

  1-10-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 31

  Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a member of Congress' far-left Squad, on Saturday allegedly pulled a fire alarm in a House office building to buy fellow...