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Investments and Business

Hollywood Writers Ratify New Contract With Studios

Evan Harrington

Hollywood film and TV writers voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with the major entertainment studios, the Writers Guild of America said on Monday, formally bringing to a…

Investments and Business

Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Work Force

Evan Harrington

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to Claudia Goldin, a Harvard professor, for advancing the world’s understanding of women’s progress in the work force.She is…

Investments and Business

Oil Prices Jump on Fighting in Israel and Gaza

Evan Harrington

After a surge this summer when oil prices approached $100 a barrel, the cost of crude was tumbling again. Now a Middle East war has sent it right back up.Traders…

Investments and Business

Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating?

Evan Harrington

The list of gains that the Hollywood writers secured to end a nearly five-month strike with studios once seemed ludicrously ambitious: not just wage increases, but also minimum staffing levels…

Investments and Business

Israel-Gaza Conflict Could Slow Natural Gas Investment in Area

Evan Harrington

The fighting between Israel and militants from Gaza could be a blow to the ambitions of Israel and the wider eastern Mediterranean region to become a hub for exporting natural…

Investments and Business

How strikes are (and aren’t) reflected in the jobs report.

Evan Harrington

Three of the country’s major automakers are facing an expanding strike that started on Sept. 15. Hollywood producers and screenwriters reached a contract agreement late last month to end a…