Business
December 1, 2017

Nervous about the financial markets? Time to assess your risk capacity

The starting place for understanding risk capacity is your income and your career.
Business
December 1, 2017
Business people negotiating a contract. Human hands working with documents at desk and signing contract.

Are you paying too much for financial advice?

Many investors are overpaying for financial guidance. Here is how to determine whether the fees are a good investment.
Business
December 1, 2017
Bob Kaitz, President and CEO of BestPrep, a nonprofit that works with Minnesota business and high schools on e-mentorships and other programs to get s

New online mentoring program is seeing success

Business
December 1, 2017

Business bookshelf: 'Clashing over Commerce'

Business
December 1, 2017
Four kids' tablets are displayed, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, in New York. Clockwise, from upper left, are LeapFrog's Epic, a Nabi Elev-8, Kurio's Xtreme 2

Review: LeapFrog Epic Academy Edition makes learning fun

Business
December 1, 2017

Inside Track briefs: CliftonLarsonAllen hiring interns with eye toward diversity

Business
December 1, 2017

Schafer: Big ACA tax bills catch some smaller employers by surprise

Some employers in the region have still been knocked back by the IRS letters landing in their mailboxes.
Business
December 1, 2017
New acting director Mick Mulvaney once referred to the CFPB as a bad joke.

Minnesota officials divided on outlook for embattled federal consumer agency

Critics say Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has overreached, but supporters fear loss of independent advocate against fraud.
Business
December 1, 2017
Josh Hoffman, left, and Ken Greene of the Carlso Rezidor Hotel Group at the company's Radisson RED property in downtown Minneapolis.

Carlson Hotels to change name as Minnesota company looks to future

Under new ownership, the company has new executives and a plan to aggressively expand the number of hotels it runs.
Minneapolis
December 1, 2017

Chamber of Commerce asks judge to block $15 minimum wage in Mpls.

The $15 an hour minimum wage will start being phased in on Jan. 1, with large employers required to start paying employees $10 an hour.
Business
December 1, 2017
Manufacturing reports for November shows a slight slowdown both nationally and in Minnesota. Shown is the Festo distribution center in Mason, Ohio. (A

Midwest factory growth slowed in November

Creighton University report finds orders and exports rise even as deliveries slow.
Nation
December 1, 2017
3M, based in Maplewood, has bought Scott Controls.

3M tells Alabama that it underreported chemicals in river by factor of 1,000

For more than three years, 3M Co. underreported its discharge of a class of potentially toxic chemicals into the Tennessee River by a factor of 1,000, according to a letter sent by a 3M official to regulators at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Business
December 1, 2017

Proto Labs makes $120 million acquisition

Minneapolis
December 1, 2017

New 40-story apartment tower proposed in downtown Minneapolis

5th Street tower near Nicollet Mall would have 261 units, 266 parking spots and access to the skyway.
Variety
December 1, 2017
A man dressed in medieval garb delivered an unusual cease-and-desist letter to Modist Brewing in Minneapolis on Friday.

Minneapolis' Modist Brewery receives medieval-style cease-and-desist order

The brewery's "Dilly Dilly" Mosaic Double IPA crowlers prompted the Bud Light messenger's visit.
Business
December 1, 2017
The "Rope.Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required." hoodie was available Friday.

'Rope. Tree. Journalist' lynching shirt design pulled from Amazon

Walmart had removed the T-shirt design from its website after a complaint was made by a journalists' group.
Business
November 30, 2017
Some of the Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues, rele

Facebook pledges to disable ad filters based on ethnicity

Business
November 30, 2017

PUC backs Xcel's plan that would result in closing Iron Range, Benson plants

Communities protest job losses at wood-burning and manure plants.
West Metro
November 30, 2017

Hennepin County awards $1.7 million in transit grants

Local
November 30, 2017
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills.

Minnesota counties file lawsuits against opioid manufacturers

They join a wave of lawsuits across the country trying to recoup costs for the public health crisis.

Business

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