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Bijoux Inspired Jewels moving sale to feature...

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Bijoux Inspired Jewels, the popular jewelry boutique in Green Spring Station, will be moving to a new location next month. As a result, the store will be having a major sale — with items for 50 percent to 70 percent off — through Saturday.

Although Bijoux's new location has not been announced,…

WashREIT sees room for growth in the competitive...

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Washington Real Estate Investment Trust is known largely for its office holdings, but in a market like Washington, D.C., these days that’s not always a good thing. Office leasing activity is off considerably from where it stood just a few years ago, but demand for apartments, on the other hand, is still going strong. WashREIT CEO Paul McDermott believes that demand will help pick up the slack for his District-based real estate investment trust until office leasing returns to its normal pace in the…

MICA's first pitch competition awards media and...

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Growing up, Jay Jackson loved watching Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, the famed movie-reviewing duo, bicker about new releases and give films their famous thumbs up or thumbs down. He never thought he would follow in their footsteps. Jackson, a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is a co-founder of TNP Studios, a media company with 100,000 average monthly downloads of its podcasts on film, politics, video games and comic books — a range of topics the company describes as…

Stocks suffer worst week since February freak-out

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Wall Street is saying goodbye to April on a decidedly nervous note.



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Katwalk Boutique's Fashion At The Point event to...

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Head over to Katwalk Boutique in Fells Point all day Saturday for their annual Fashion At The Point event.

Owner Toni James has promised giveaways, pop-up shops, a photo booth, a DJ, a complimentary juice and wine bar, and plenty of new spring and summer fashions.

Attend the annual Fashion At The…

Warren Buffett's favorite oil stock is tanking

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Investors – including the legendary Warren Buffett – weren’t getting their kicks with Phillips 66 on Friday.



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$458 billion in taxes go unpaid every year

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The United States routinely lives above its means by spending more than it takes in..



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Venmo is under investigation by the FTC

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A popular mobile payment app is facing a federal investigation.



from http://www.wbaltv.com/money/venmo-is-under-investigation-by-the-ftc/39282182

Old Line Spirits whiskey hits shelves, distillery...

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Mark McLaughlin and Arch Watkins, Baltimore residents and former Navy Reserve buddies, stepped away from their career paths in 2014 and set out to start making whiskey. This week, the risk paid off as Old Line Spirits American Single Malt Whiskey hit the shelves in and around Baltimore. The 86-proof whiskey is retailing for around $50 and is in places like Snake Hill Tavern, Woodberry Kitchen and Bartenders in the city, but the duo is continuing their sales pitch to other places in Baltimore and…

What makes a city outstanding for small...

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If you had to pick one place to launch a new business, your best option would be Austin, Texas. But it wouldn’t be your only alternative, not by a long shot. Austin emerged from a new American City Business Journals study with the nation’s highest score for small-business vitality. ACBJ analyzed 106 major metropolitan areas across America. But several other markets also did extremely well in the study, which used a 16-part formula to assess their small-business climates. Three Florida metros took…