U.S. adds jobs but labor market still struggles

The U.S. economy has been bolstered by the addition of 146,000 jobs last month yet a drop in the unemployment rate is "misleading" because it reflects more people leaving the work force, according to one expert. "For every job being created, about two...

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Demand, prices rise for Bay State homes

With only a month to go before the end of the year, housing trends for 2012 are taking shape. Demand for single-family homes and condominiums for the first 11 months of the year was up across all price points in Massachusetts, whereas in the same stretch...

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Sandy is thought to have slowed US hiring in Nov.

WASHINGTON — Superstorm Sandy is widely thought to have slowed U.S. job growth last month. The only question is how much — an answer that's expected to emerge Friday in the government's jobs report for November. Yet once the storm's impact is cleared...

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Yo-Yo Ma strikes right note

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma wowed students yesterday with a performance at Harvard's iLab and urged them to find new, collaborative ways of solving cultural problems. "Our hope is that we will be able to find amongst all of you new thinking, new discoveries,"...

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Investors bracing for fall

Companies have been awarding special dividends to beat an anticipated tax hike next year, but as uncertainty about the "fiscal cliff" continues, the path for the average investor is less clear. Some financial experts say it's time to sell stocks to...

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Dr. Timothy Johnson retires after 40 years at Ch. 5

Dr. Timothy Johnson is retiring from Channel 5 — where the nationally renowned TV doctor got his small screen start — after a 40-year run as the Boston station's award-winning medical editor that led to a slot on "Good Morning America." "It just seemed...

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US economy adds 146K jobs, rate falls to 7.7 pct.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures. The Labor Department's report...

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Stocks turn higher on jobs number, but fears loom

NEW YORK — The stock market turned higher this morning on news that the U.S. added more jobs in November. But underneath the headline numbers, the government's monthly employment report gave a mixed read on the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average...

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Watertown's Riverworks office complex adds 3 tenants

The recently renovated Riverworks complex in Watertown has signed three office leases, broker Jones Lang LaSalle announced. Mimecast North America, Fresh Tilled Soil and Kearsarge Energy signed long-term leases totaling nearly 50,000 square feet of...

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TV helicopter news coverage pioneer dies in California

CAMARILLO, Calif. — The Los Angeles television engineer who won Emmy Awards for creating helicopter news coverage in 1958 has died in Southern California at 92. The family of John D. Silva tells the Los Angeles Times that he died Nov. 27 of pneumonia...

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