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RALEIGH, N.C. – Some 60 investors representing $2.1 trillion in managed assets joined the NCAA, entertainers and more than 200 businesses in calling for North Carolina to repeal its law limiting LGBT protections against discrimination.
“While the U.S. economy continues to grow, quite frankly North Carolina appears to be headed for what I would call a state-government-inflicted recession,” said Matt Patsky, chief executive officer of Trillium Asset Management. Trillium has more than $2 billion in assets under management.
Patsky spoke Monday at a news conference alongside some of the investors who signed a statement calling for repeal of the law known as HB2. Trillium was one of the organizers of the statement, along with environmental research group Croatan Institute and the New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer. Stringer was unable to attend because of a New York ban on travel to North Carolina, Patsky said.
“As long-term investors, we can’t sit idly by as HB2 undermines fundamental human rights at our expense,” Stringer said in the statement…

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There are five stocks that are defying the trend of slowing economic growth where analysts are raising profit forecasts

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John Duchow and Marla Clarke say they dreamed of buying a home in Vancouver. But when prices kept outpacing their savings, the pair became “real estate refugees,” forced out by an ever-climbing market.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – U.S. stocks slumped Monday, and banks took the biggest losses. Deutsche Bank hit an all-time low as investors worried about the financial health of Germany’s largest bank. Pfizer pulled drugmakers down after it announced it won’t break up into two companies.
On Monday:
The Dow Jones industrial average sank 166.62 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 18,094.83.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slid 18.59 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 2,146.10.
The Nasdaq composite gave up 48.26 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 5,257.49.
For the year:
The Dow is up 669.80 points, or 3.8 per cent.
The S&P 500 is up 102.16 points, or 5 per cent.
The Nasdaq is up 250.08 points, or 5 per cent.
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This story has been corrected to show that the Nasdaq declined 0.9 per cent Monday, not 0.8 per cent.
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