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Business Headlines
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
This morning's top stories

Companies are tightening their return-to-office requirements. How will it play out here?

Amazon workers will report to the office five days a week, come January. Most local employers aren't matching that extreme, but many are rethinking their approach.  Continue reading →

About 20 percent of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says

The report found that news influencers posted mostly about politics and the election, followed by social issues like race and abortion and international events.  Continue reading →

Host Brazil focuses G20 summit on fighting hunger amid wars and Trump’s return

Brazil pushed for concerted action to alleviate hunger Monday as it hosted a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies amid global uncertainty over two major wars and incoming President-elect Donald Trump.  Continue reading →

About 20 percent of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says

The findings provide an indication of how Americans consumed the news during the height of the US presidential campaign that President-elect Donald Trump ultimately won.  Continue reading →

Wu wraps up effort to fill vacant storefronts

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.  Continue reading →

Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy; bondholders set to take control

The company was forced to start restructuring talks with creditors after a federal judge blocked a $3.8 billion acquisition by JetBlue Airways Corp.  Continue reading →

Lynch says federal research dollars to Mass. could slow under RFK Jr.

US Representative Stephen Lynch said Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health and human services gives him “great concern,” and he believes it could negatively impact Greater Boston’s federal funding.  Continue reading →

Boston awards final small business grants with federal pandemic relief funds, as celebrated program ends

Across the program's three rounds, about 90 small businesses received grants of up to $200,000, providing financial support for rent, space renovation, or other startup costs related to moving into a vacant retail space.  Continue reading →

Math professor Loring Tu gives eight-figure gift to Tufts

Plus: Saucony makes tracks for Boston; the Marathon draws big out-of-state crowds; and developers celebrate earmarks in the latest Mass. economic bill.  Continue reading →

Citing ‘burnout,’ nearly 300 primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham take steps to unionize

The doctors comprise the vast majority of primary care physicians employed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Continue reading →