Business
January 6, 2019
A photograph of the HealthCare.gov website in October 2018.

Affordable Care Act's fate worries many in Minn.

Breadth of 2010 health care law means many will be affected if it's struck down in the courts.
Business
January 6, 2019
IntriCon CEO Mark Gorder with hearing aids in 2017.

St. Anthony: Has IntriCon stock been a good investment? Depends

One of the best-performing Minnesota stocks of 2017 and into the summer of last year has gone from hot to cold.
Business
January 6, 2019
FILE-- President Donald Trump at a bilateral dinner meeting with President Xi Jinping of China during the Group of 20 summit at the Hyatt Palace Hotel

Volatile 2018 ends on down note for majority of Minnesota's big firms

Among 72 major public firms, only 32 saw positive returns last year.
Business
January 5, 2019

Business bookshelf: Reinventing innovation

Business
January 5, 2019
FILE- In this Nov. 20, 2018, file photo an American flag flies outside New York Stock Exchange. The stock market hasn't been this dizzying in years, a

What's a nervous investor to do in volatile market? Not much really

Squelch the urge to retreat amid wild stock market swings, financial advisers say.
Business
January 5, 2019
FILE - In this Friday, May 13, 2016, file photo, a man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store in Beijing. Apple reports financial results Tuesday,

How the Apple aftershock was felt in Minnesota and consumer wallets

Few corporate revenue warnings echo the way Apple's did last week.
Local
January 5, 2019
The social cost of carbon kicks in on power generation projects like the one Xcel Energy has planned for Becker, Minn. Sherco's coal plants will be ph

Progress on greenhouse gas emissions, but not quite what Minnesota hoped

Report shows power plants made biggest cuts.
Local
January 5, 2019
GLEN STUBBE ¥ gstubbe@startribune.com - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 -- Pine Island, Minn. -- ] Work crews laid sewer line near Highway 52 on what wi

Prairie Island buys land near Pine Island

Concern over nuclear waste, aging power plant spur $15.5M purchase.
Local
January 5, 2019
"Ali J Boutique" Manager McCall Amundson, left, and owner Alison Werder, cq, right, talked about the success of the retail business in small town Minn

Recession decimated outstate Minnesota retailers, but there are bright spots

Of the state's 47 largest retail centers outside the Twin Cities, all but two saw a loss of retailers from 2009 to 2015.
Business
January 5, 2019
Kmart chairman Edward Lampert, left, and Sears CEO Alan Lacy listen during a news conference to announce the merger of Kmart and Sears in New York Wed

Schafer: Sears chairman will be remembered as professional investor who didn't want to invest

It's a harsh world for retailers and maybe nothing would have worked, but Edward Lampert gave away the company's best chance.
Minneapolis
January 5, 2019
A portrait of Tina Rexing, the IT manager who quit corporate America several years ago to be a cookie entrepreneur Wednesday January 2, 2019 in Minnea

Hoping to reopen, T-Rex Cookie caught in middle of Mpls. neighborhood's legal fight

The owner of a giant cookie bakery must makeover her Twin Cities business to survive.
Business
January 5, 2019
Reuben Moore grew up a patient of community health centers and now leads the state’s largest as CEO of St. Paul-based West Side Community Healt

For clinics offering health care to all, 'the economic challenges are intense'

St. Paul-based West Side Community Health Services has a new name: Minnesota Community Care. Its role as a "beacon of hope" is the same.
Business
January 5, 2019
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How to spot the best carpet and rug cleaners in the Twin Cities

The company you hire can affect how well the job gets done.
Business
January 5, 2019
Instructors Jodi Sussner, standing, and Kim Waters demonstrate a pose from a Wellbeats class in chair yoga that was released in 2016 and currently is

Wellbeats is aiming its fitness videos at the workplace

After years of selling to health clubs and the military, the St. Louis Park-based firm turns to employers as a target audience.
Business
January 5, 2019

You can't time the market, you can manage your financial risk

Investors are worried about mounting evidence that the global economy is slowing down.
Business
January 5, 2019

It turns out companies' pursuit of high profits really does increase the wealth gap

Companies are using their market power to extract wealth from poor and middle-class households and deposit it in the pockets of the wealthy, researchers say.
Business
January 5, 2019

Top Workplaces 2019 nominations are open

January 5, 2019
A cashier returns a credit card and a receipt at a McDonald's window, where signage for job openings are displayed, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, in Atlanti

US employers went on a surprising hiring spree in December

U.S. employers went on a hiring spree in December, adding a surprising 312,000 jobs and providing a dose of reassurance about the economy after a turbulent few months on Wall Street.
Business
January 4, 2019

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January 4, 2019

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