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Keith Meister’s activist hedge fund Corvex Management LP has raised its stake in oil and gas producer Energen to 7.6% and criticized the company’s decision to maintain the status quo following a review of strategic alternatives.  

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Activist who highlighted vulnerabilities in some Hong Kong small-cap shares said the rout showed regulators failed investors.

Earlier this week we wrote about a study published by the University of Washington which was fairly damning for Seattle’s $15 minimum wage.  To our total ‘shock’, the study found that higher minimum wages caused a 9.4% reduction to total hours worked by low-skilled workers, or roughly 14 million hours per year.  Given that a full-time employee works 2,080 hours per year, that’s the equal to just over 6,700 full-time equivalents who have lost their jobs, just in the city of Seattle, courtesy of moronic politicians who don’t seem to grasp basic mathematical c

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RECOVERY
by M. Doug McGuff, MD
We have spent most of this book talking about what one should do while in the gym. Of equal importance is the time you spend out of the gym. While the workout itself is responsible for stimulating changes in your body; it is actually your body itself that produces those changes. We must always remember that the changes we are asking the body to make are metabolically expensive. Let us say, for example, that we want…

Recovery

Amazon’s play for the $16 billion organic foods segment will not prompt a Kroger counteroffer.

Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,

To complete a trifecta, maybe someone could interview Alan Greenspan about rational exuberance.

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Police in Australia have charged Cardinal George Pell, a senior official at the Vatican, with multiple counts of sexual offenses
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