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Wednesday's Afternoon Update
What you need to know about Florida today
How to profit from global warming
Here's a dirty little secret: companies that are cleaning up their carbon act are also cleaning up in the stock market. Companies that have been the best at improving their carbon efficiency since 2012 have dramatically outperformed the ones that have been the worst at it. More at Money.
Duke Energy gets approval to change rates in 2016
Duke Energy customers in Florida will see rates decrease next year, after the Florida Public Service Commission approved the Charlotte, N.C.,-based energy company’s rate filing for next year. The roughly 3 percent decrease comes partly because of lower fuel costs and innovations. More at the Orlando Sentinel.
To ward off financial infidelity, be upfront about your income with your spouse
Financial infidelity is on the rise with 33 percent of adults admitting to having hidden a purchase, bank account, statement, bill, or cash from their significant other. More at the Miami Herald.
Huge Lakewood Ranch biotech campus in the works
Lakewood Ranch will become home for a live-work-play research campus that managers at master developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch Inc. expect to draw national biotechnology and life science players looking for a modern, collaborative environment coupled with classic Florida ambience. More at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Is China cooking the books on economic expansion?
One of China's most senior government officials over the weekend said his country's economy should expect to see "at least 6.5 percent" gross domestic product growth each year between 2016 and 2020, despite a growing pool of evidence suggesting China is in the midst of a historic economic slowdown. More from US News & World Report.
Around the State
Southeast Hotel Surge
Palm Beach County is seeing a flood of new hotel rooms, including the construction of the first hotel in downtown Boca Raton. Discover the Palm Beaches, the official tourism marketing corporation for the county, says 708 hotel rooms will be completed in the county by March 2017.
Out of the Box
Hungry? Taste Florida's Invasive Species
Some of the nastiest visitors to the Sunshine State will get their well-deserved comeuppance when Chef Brad Francis of the Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront turns them into hors d’oeuvres for the Invasive Species Tasting that is part of the Explorers Club 2015 Lowell Thomas Awards Dinner on Saturday.
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