May 19, 2024

Tuesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 12/29/2015

› Universal Orlando looks back 25 years, more innovation ahead
When the Universal Orlando theme park opened in 1990, it was a way for visitors to have fun inspired by the movies they loved — without traveling to California.

› Gasoline prices could remain low through January
The AAA travel club predicts that prices will remain low through January and could drop further if the cost of crude oil remains week. By late winter, gas prices could rise 50 cents or more as refineries carry out maintenance in advance of the summer driving season.

› How the U.S. government moves the economy
It is impossible to pick up a newspaper or listen to the news without hearing about the Federal Reserve. There is indeed an intense focus on what the Fed will do to interest rates. Maybe you wonder what they are talking about here?

› Tech Talk: A rockin’ year for entrepreneurship
South Florida biotech, medical device firms and health-tech companies took 78 percent of the $241 million in venture capital that flowed into South Florida companies in the first three quarters and almost half of the state’s take.

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