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Duke Energy has asked for state approval to offer its largest industrial and commercial customers in North Carolina a one-year, 6 percent rate reduction at a shareholder expense of about $13 million.
U.S. builders started work on more homes and apartments last month and requested more permits to build single-family homes. The increases suggest the battered housing market is healing.
More turmoil in Greece caused fallout across the financial markets.

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase offered a quick but blunt apology to shareholders Tuesday for a $2 billion trading loss that “should never have happened” and survived a push to strip him of the title of chairman of the board.

A former mortgage broker in prison for his role in a house-flipping scheme is asking a federal court to vacate his sentence, citing improper court procedures and ineffective counsel.

Chiquita Brands is asking investors to approve pay packages for its top executives, after a leading shareholder advisory group recommended voting against the pay, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents filed Tuesday.

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has a new, $1.4 billion international terminal, and one local official said it helps separate the city from Charlotte.

An Oklahoma-based debt collection agency says it is scouting offices in Charlotte and elsewhere in North Carolina.

Charlotte is already a national leader in banking. Now it’s time to join the leaders of an emerging industry – big data analytics, a panel of local and national experts said Tuesday.

North Carolina's main business lobby wants legislators who opened their annual session Wednesday to cut future unemployment benefits and issue taxpayer-backed bonds, a move it says would save employers money while closing a debt to the federal government.

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