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A trader stands outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Fear is gripping Wall Street about what’s next to topple following the second- and third-largest bank failures in US history in recent days.
Stocks are falling early
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a space of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software.
The technology

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A trader stands outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Fear is gripping Wall Street about what’s next to topple following the second- and third-largest bank failures in US history in recent days.
Stocks are falling early
Tom Krisher And Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press – March 4, 2023 / 6:50 am | Stories: 414415

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Alaska’s rugged and frigid interior, where it can get as cold as -46 C, is not the place
OTTAWA –
Forecasters are expecting the Bank of Canada to move ahead with another interest rate hike in July, even as they expect the annual inflation rate to slow significantly.
Statistics Canada is set to release its consumer price index
The company that makes kitchen staples like CorningWare, Pyrex and the Instant Pot has entered bankruptcy proceedings in the US and Canada.
Illinois-based Instant Brands said Monday that it has “initiated a voluntary court-supervised Chapter 11 process,” due to an
LONDON –
Brewers in the United Kingdom are cutting the alcohol content — but not the price — of several of their most popular beers in what’s been described as another example of “shrinkflation.”
Greene King, a major UK brewer
The Bank of Canada is more worried than it was last year about household debt loads, and is concerned about the abilities for households to stay on top of them in the coming years once mortgages renew at higher rates.

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Pilots are speaking out against an aviation industry push toward having a sole crew member in the cockpit.
At a news conference in Montreal, leaders of three of the world’s largest pilot unions representing more than
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said artificial intelligence may change the world but new technology won’t take away opportunities for investors and he’s confident America will continue to prosper despite its bitter political divisions.
Buffett and his partner
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, criticized the government’s intervention in recent bank failures, saying on Saturday it averted what could have become an even bigger crisis.
Yet he said the US banking system had become too complicated

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