US Home Prices Continued Brisk Growth in July, Case-Shiller Says and other top stories.

• US Home Prices Continued Brisk Growth in July, Case-Shiller Says

  Sept. 27, 2016 9:00 a.m. ET Home price growth showed no signs of abating in July, as strong demand for homes and a shortage of inventory helped drive prices close to new highs. The S&P CoreLogic CLGX -0.55 % Case-Shiller Indices, covering the entire nation, rose 5.1% in the 12 months ended in July, slightly higher than a 5% increase reported in June. The 10-city index gained 4.2% from a year earlier down slightly from 4.3% last month, and the 20-city index gained 5% yea..

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• Wells Fargo Board Actively Considering Executive Clawbacks

  

  Wells Fargo & Co.’s board is actively considering whether to claw back pay from former retail-banking head Carrie Tolstedt as well as from Chief Executive John Stumpf, according to a person familiar with the matter. The board is deliberating in the wake of the bank’s sales-tactics scandal and could make a decision as soon as Tuesday, the...

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• Clean Power Plan's big day in court

  

  Clean Power Plan's big day in court By Anthony Adragna 09/27/16 10:00 AM EDT With help from Alex Guillén, Elana Schor, Annie Snider and Darius Dixon CLEAN POWER PLAN — LLLLLETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLE: Today is the Super Bowl/World Series/Quidditch World Cup of climate law, as the Obama administration defends EPA’s Clean Power Plan before 10 judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. While waiting in line to get into the courthouse, check out our refreshers on the major l..

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• WTO cuts 2016 world trade growth forecast to 1.7 percent, cites wake-up ca...

  

  GENEVA The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.The new figure of 1.7 percent, down from the WTO's previous estimate of 2.8 percent in April, marked the first time in 15 years that international commerce was expected to lag the growth of the world economy, the trade body said. The figures should be a wake-up call for governments, WTO Direct..

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• The Latest: McCrory criticizes investors over LGBT statement

  

  By Associated Press September 26 at 3:35 PM RALEIGH, N.C. — The Latest on investors calling on North Carolina to repeal the law that limits LGBT protections against discrimination (all times local): 3 p.m. Gov. Pat McCrory says it’s the “height of hypocrisy” for investors whom he describes as “New York hedge fund billionaires” to tell North Carolina what to do about a law that limits LGBT protections against discrimination. The governor’s statement came Monday after about 60 investors repres..

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• Why EpiPens expire so quickly

  

  Heather Bresch, chief executive of Mylan, holds up EpiPen medication while speaking at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Sept. 15. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News) Mylan chief executive Heather Bresch said one thing at a contentious hearing last week that should be music to the ears of people with life-threatening allergies: Her company will soon push to extend the shelf life for EpiPen. Currently, EpiPens expire 18 months from date of manufacturing. Facing criticism for the..

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