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Boston-Based Vertex Pharmaceuticals Just Delivered a Kidney Disease Breakthrough

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While most of Wall Street was still digesting the weekend business news, Vertex Pharmaceuticals dropped a clinical data release that sent its stock jumping more than 6% in premarket trading. The reason: povetacicept, the company’s experimental drug for a serious and poorly treated kidney disease, just hit its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial […]

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Fed Survey Shows a Frozen Labor Market — And Boston’s Startups Should Pay Attention

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There is a number buried in the Federal Reserve’s latest consumer survey that deserves more attention than it is getting. The share of American workers who expect to voluntarily quit their jobs in the next twelve months has just hit a record low — dropping to 15.9%, the lowest reading since the New York Fed

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Circle Furniture Is Auctioning Everything — Stores Close After Bankruptcy

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There is something quietly sad about watching a furniture store get auctioned off piece by piece. A sofa that someone spent weeks choosing. A desk that sat in a showroom for months waiting for the right buyer. Staging artwork that dressed up windows in eight different Massachusetts towns. For Circle Furniture — a retailer that

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A Brand-New Foxborough Apartment Complex Just Sold for $20.4 Million

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Foxborough is better known for Gillette Stadium and Patriots game days than for headline-grabbing real estate deals. But a transaction that quietly closed this week is putting the town on the investment map for a very different reason. Foxmeadow Farm, a luxury apartment community at 29 Wall Street in the heart of Foxboro, has changed

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Boston Places Five Companies on the World’s Most Exclusive Innovation List

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Every year, LexisNexis publishes a list that the financial and scientific world tends to treat as a quiet but credible report card on global innovation. The Top 100 Global Innovators ranking does not measure press releases or funding rounds or how many times a CEO appeared on a podcast. It is built on something harder

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Wearable tech company WHOOP Is Hiring 600 People. Boston Should Pay Attention

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While most of the tech world spent the first weeks of 2026 announcing layoffs, Boston’s WHOOP went in the opposite direction. On March 4, the Kenmore Square-based wearable health company announced it would add more than 600 new employees over the course of the year — a move that would increase its current workforce of

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Global Markets Rattled as Iran Conflict Sends Energy and Defense Stocks Soaring

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Wall Street opened Monday on shaky ground as investors scrambled to reassess their portfolios in response to a new wave of conflict in the Middle East involving Iran. The market reaction was swift and telling: energy companies surged, defense contractors rallied, while airlines, cruise operators, and luxury brands took a sharp hit. Brent crude oil

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