Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Close a nuclear plant, save money and carbon, improve the grid, says PG&E and other top stories.

  • Close a nuclear plant, save money and carbon, improve the grid, says PG&E

    Close a nuclear plant, save money and carbon, improve the grid, says PG&E
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  • Fast food sees bump on satisfaction index

    Fast food sees bump on satisfaction index
    In the highly competitive restaurant market, fast food is closing the gap on full-service restaurants. According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which was released this week, limited-service restaurants posted a 2.6 percent gain to score a 79 on the index’s 100-point scale, while full-service restaurants saw a 1.2 percent slide to 81. The ACSI report is based on 4,786 customer surveys collected in March. Among some of the report’s more interesting findings: • Dunkin’ Donuts custo..
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  • Brexit Polls at Odds With Currency Markets as Campaign Nears End

    Brexit Polls at Odds With Currency Markets as Campaign Nears End
    Britain’s referendum on EU membership entered its final day of campaigning with opinion polls and financial markets at odds about the likely outcome. Brexit on Bloomberg: Money has piled into bets on “Remain” winning over the past week. The pound has surged to a five-month high and an index of betting flows compiled by Oddschecker shows the chance of Brexit has fallen to 26 percent from 43 percent since June 14. Polls, meanwhile, say the race is too close to call after a swing towards the Leave..
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  • UPDATE 1-H&M results slammed by strong dollar, weak demand

    UPDATE 1-H&M results slammed by strong dollar, weak demand
    (Adds detail, background)STOCKHOLM, June 22 Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz reported a 17 percent drop in second-quarter profit as weak demand for its spring clothes added to high costs.Dented by currency translation effects which kept purchasing costs high, and markdowns due to unusually weak sales growth, as well as higher investments in e-commerce, pretax profit in H&M's fiscal second quarter fell to 7.0 billion Swedish crowns ($847.36 million) from 8.4 billion a year earlier. The..
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  • House Republicans Unveil Long-Awaited Replacement for Health Law

    House Republicans Unveil Long-Awaited Replacement for Health Law
    Photo In their blueprint for an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, Speaker Paul D. Ryan and his Republican team did not provide a cost estimate or legislative language. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times WASHINGTON — After six years of vague talk about a conservative alternative to the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans on Tuesday finally laid out the replacement for a repealed health law — a package of proposals that they said would slow the growth of healt..
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  • Drone industry delight at new US rules

    Drone industry delight at new US rules
    Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Drone pilots in the US will face fewer restrictions from August The rules regarding flying drones in the United States have been greatly relaxed, paving the way for thousands of businesses to fly legally in the country's airspace.Existing Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) rules had meant commercial operators needed a pilot's license in order to fly even small drones - a stipulation industry advocates said was ..
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  • Goal of owning home still strong, and 8 other housing trends

    Goal of owning home still strong, and 8 other housing trends
    Americans still want to own homes — if they can afford to. That's the finding of a report being released Wednesday by the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.The pressures of student debt, rising rents and the leftover wreckage from the nearly decade-old housing bust have restrained people's ability to buy, even though the dream remains alive. The report sees reasons for both optimism (more millennials are poised to leave the nest) and concern (rising numbers of renters face ext..
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  • European stocks open higher ahead of UK 'Brexit' vote

    European stocks open higher ahead of UK 'Brexit' vote
    The pan-European STOXX 600 was hovering around the flatline. European stocks closed mostly higher on Tuesday following polls that allayed fears of a Brexit. Broadly, opinion polls show that support for the remain and leave camps is neck-and-neck, making the result too close to call and that could stoke further volatility in financial markets. "Recent market moves have been pricing in a remain vote but, with opinion polls indicating that the vote is too close to call, the markets are like..
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