Finance
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A Way to Beat High Mortgage Rates? Take Over Someone Else’s Loan.
Assumable mortgages — or low-rate mortgages that home buyers can take over from home sellers — are making a comeback.…
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Norfolk Southern Investors Reject Plan to Oust Its Management
An activist investment firm failed to replace the railroad’s top executive and all its directors, but did win three seats…
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An Office With 128,000 Miles
As a reporter covering Texas, I ate, worked and slept in my trusty, company-issued Chevy. So allow me a moment…
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Bank of England Holds Interest Rates Steady, but Signals Cuts
A rate cut could come as soon as this summer as the central bank forecast that inflation would drop to…
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Norfolk Southern Investors Reject Plan to Oust Its Management
An activist investment firm failed to replace the railroad’s top executive and all its directors, but did win three seats…
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A Plan to Break up Paramount
If Sony and Apollo Global win the fight to buy the media company, they plan to keep the studio business…
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Israel’s Shutdown of Al Jazeera Highlights Long-Running Tensions
The network will keep covering the war in Gaza, but it will be harder for Israelis to watch. Israel calls…
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10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean
Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning…
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Meet My A.I. Friends
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and…
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Uber Slips on Rising Legal Costs and Weaker Ride Demand
The company has racked up bills after long-running legal fights with regulators and cabdrivers.