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Wall Street is off to a mixed start Monday as stocks worldwide stall following the latest signal that the world’s second-largest economy is flagging.
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Stock market today: Wall Street drifts as stocks worldwide stall after weak Chinese data

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G20 finance chiefs meeting in India address global challenges like climate change and rising debt

China’s economy grew 6.3 per cent in the second quarter of the year after near-stagnant growth a year earlier, missing analyst expectations even as momentum is expected to weaken in the coming quarters.
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China’s economy grew 6.3 per cent in the second quarter, lower than expected as momentum slows

Even during a year of sobering economic news for media companies, the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists on a single day hit like a gut punch.
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Editorial cartoonists’ firings point to steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers

The average tuition at US private colleges grew by about 4% last year to just under $40,000 per year, according to data collected by US News & World Report. For a public in-state school, that cost was $10,500, that’s an annual increase of 0.8% for in-state students and about 1% for out-of-state.
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Some U.S. colleges cost US k per year, and they’re only getting more expensive. Here’s why

After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.
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‘Mission: Impossible’ debuts with M over five days, igniting box office but missing expectations

The Donkin underground coal mine in Cape Breton has been shut down again following reports of a rock fall on Saturday.
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Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine shut down again over reports of rock fall

Britain on Sunday officially joined an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and 10 other nations during a meeting in New Zealand.
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Britain officially joins an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and 10 other nations

On the heels of a trip to Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is back in India for the third time in nine months, this time to meet finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations about global economic challenges like the increased threat of debt defaults facing low-income countries.
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Yellen is visiting India yet again to promote closer ties and tackle global economic problems

Twitter’s cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50 per cent drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, falling short of his expectation in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June.
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Elon Musk says Twitter’s cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50 per cent