Home Depot Inc. published Tuesday its strongest quarterly sales in nearly 20 years, as the largest home improvement retailer benefited from the growing interest in household projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. Revenue for the Atlanta-based retailer rose 23% to $ 38.05 billion in the May-July period, up from $ 30.84 …
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Two years out of college, Leah Sanders made as much as $ 19,000 a month using oil wells in Kuwait. After being fired in May by oilfield giant Schlumberger Ltd., she returned with her parents to Tennessee, earning $ 15 an hour to help with her father’s construction business. She …
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Increased mutation in the new coronavirus “could be a good thing”, said a top expert. Paul Tambyah, a former consultant at the National University of Singapore and president-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, said a mutation in coronavirus that has made the rounds in Europe, North America and …
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