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House Democrats propose eliminating $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions

The year is winding down, and legislators in blue states are still fired up over the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction. A new bill aims to eliminate the limitation on this write-off.

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UK: New Peer to Peer Lending Rules Kick in on December 9th: “A Watershed Moment for P2P”

Crowdfund Insider | JD Alois | Dec 10, 2019 New peer to peer lending rules come into effect on Monday, December 9th. The new rules were the result of a review by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The UK largely created the entire sector of peer to peer lending. One of the most prominent

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Exxon Mobil scores win in New York climate change lawsuit

Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit on Tuesday when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate change regulation.



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Exxon wins climate change lawsuit, as cases over global warming proliferate

Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday scored a win in a closely-watched case after a judge ruled that the company did not hide the true cost of climate change regulation from investors.



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U.S. third-quarter labor cost growth cut; productivity soft

Growth of U.S. labor costs was not as robust as initially thought in the third quarter, suggesting inflation could remain tame in the near term.



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Agreement reached by U.S., Canada and Mexico - again - to replace NAFTA

Canada, Mexico and the United States have agreed to a fresh overhaul of their quarter-century-old regional trade pact after negotiators approved changes to a preliminary deal struck last year, and officials will sign the new agreement on Tuesday.



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Pelosi: revised USMCA pact much improved from initial Trump version

The revised United States Mexico Canada trade agreement reached between House Democrats and the White House improves U.S. President Donald Trump's initial deal with new provisions targeting the environment and other areas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday.



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Boeing deliveries halved in first 11 months of 2019

Boeing Co delivered less than half as many planes in the first 11 months of 2019 as in the same period a year earlier, the planemaker said on Tuesday, as it continued to struggle with the grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX jets.



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Oil rises but U.S.-China trade war weighs on demand outlook

Oil prices inched up on Tuesday as OPEC's deal with associated producers last week to deepen output cuts in 2020 continued to provide a floor for prices, but U.S.-China trade tensions clouded the demand outlook.



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Wall Street edges higher on tariff delay hopes

Wall Street's indexes edged higher in choppy trading on Tuesday after a report that the United States and China were planning to delay a new round of tariffs set to kick in on Dec. 15.



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U.S. top trade official lauds USMCA as model for future trade deals

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said an historic agreement on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement would benefit U.S. farmers, workers and ranchers for years to come.



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U.S. Justice Department to review Google's deal for Fitbit: source

The U.S. Justice Department will review plans by Alphabet Inc-owned Google to buy fitness tracker maker Fitbit Inc for possible antitrust issues, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.



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Trump's Dec. 15 China tariffs threaten a long list of Christmas favorites

U.S. President Donald Trump has days to decide whether to impose tariffs on nearly $160 billion in Chinese consumer goods just weeks before Christmas, a move that could be unwelcome in both the United States and China.



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U.S., Canada and Mexico reach agreement - again - to replace NAFTA

Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a fresh overhaul of their quarter-century-old regional trade pact on Tuesday that aims to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic drugs by eliminating a patent provision.



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Senate Democratic leader Schumer 'waiting to see the writing' on USMCA

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday he would wait to see the written form of the U.S. Mexico Canada trade pact before making a determination on it.



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