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The strong employment figures released Friday keep the Federal Reserve firmly on track to raise interest rates by a half-percentage point at its meeting in two weeks and again in late July to cool high inflation.
Kohl's Corp. received takeover bids from private-equity firm Sycamore Partners and retail holding company Franchise Group Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Unilever PLC has similar problems to those Procter & Gamble Co. faced four years ago, and now has the same activist investor on its board. But times otherwise have moved on.
United States efforts to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations are moving slowly as states figure out how to fairly dole out public funding to kick-start a new service industry.
A beggar in the eastern Indian state of Bihar strolled through a train station one recent weekday, toting a metal pail for cash and a tablet computer with a QR code stuck on the back.