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BlackBerry May Sell for 6% of Company's Peak Stock Price
September 23, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
BlackBerry’s largest shareholders—led by Fairfax Financial Holdings—have just floated a $4.7 billion deal to take the company private, after five years of spiraling downward. That works out to $9 per share, or 6% of BlackBerry’s peak share price. The company’s share price hit its highest close on June 19, 2008, ...
When Workers Go On Disability, It Could Have More to do With Depression Than Pain
June 14, 2013 You would think disability would be the reason most workers take disability leave. Turns out, that may not be the case. A recent German study shows that a middle-aged worker who develops arthritis is much more likely to take a disability pension and retire early if she is feeling depressed ...
A Brief History of the US Government’s Awful Graphic Design
June 7, 2013 The revelation that major US technology companies are participating in a National Security Administration surveillance program was shocking enough. And that was before we saw the top-secret slides used by the government to describe the spying operation. They are, to put it mildly, heinously ugly… The slides immediately attracted scorn ...
Federal Employment Declines Slightly
June 7, 2013 The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May, beating expectations, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.6 percent. Here’s the breakdown of employment status for all Americans age 16 and above: Here’s what job creation and loss looked like in various industries last month:
