A shareholder buy-sell agreement for a closely held business is not unlike a will for estate planning. You probably won’t need one until a “triggering event” in the agreement occurs. Typical triggering events in a buy-sell agreement of a closely ...

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NEW YORK — Autumn is an anxious time for many small and medium-sized business owners as they wait to learn whether their health insurance costs will go up for 2017 — and if so, by how much? “There’s always a ...

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NEW YORK — Washington’s budget tightening is having a minimal effect on businesses, a survey of business economists released Monday shows. The National Association for Business Economics survey asks how higher taxes and lower government spending affected businesses in the ...

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New York State ranked 23rd in terms of overall business climate, but 46th in terms of business costs, in an annual list Forbes magazine released Wednesday that placed Utah at the top and Maine at the bottom.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Obama administration’s top immigration official says his agency is working to attract and keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs who are seeking to start a company in the U.S. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Director Alejandro Mayorkas ...

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NORWICH — Sen. Charles Schumer asked federal officials Monday to make it more affordable for public schools to serve Greek yogurt, saying it would expose more students to the high-protein food and boost an already-booming business in New York. Schumer ...

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There are a lot of things to consider when doing business in Europe. To help clients looking to expand, Nixon Peabody LLP hosted a Global Economic and Legal Forum with a European focus Wednesday at its Rochester offices. The firm ...

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The approval of $4.2 million in Community Development Block Grant Economic Development awards, announced this week by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, will benefit businesses across the state, ranging from small microenterprises to larger industrial companies. The federally-funded CDBG program provides ...

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Each June when the U.S. Supreme Court wraps up its term, the same question is asked in legal circles: who won more — businesses or plaintiffs? While typically neither business leaders nor trial lawyers are known for passing on an opportunity to celebrate success ...

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New York is the third most expensive state in the nation in terms of cost of business and the most expensive on the mainland, according to a ranking compiled by CNBC. But New York also ranks toward the top in terms of education, technological innovation and access of capital ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has issued an executive order setting up a government project to retain and attract business to the United States. The program will be run out of the Commerce Department but will involve departments ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. businesses increased their demand for industrial machinery, computers and autos in March, lifting factory orders for the fifth consecutive month. Orders rose 3 percent in March after a 0.7 percent increase in February ...

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