Dollar General bids for Family Dollar, moms lobby Kroger over guns, SeaWorld battles PETA

THE FORTUNE DAILY Monday, August 18, 2014

Phew! You may spend less than you think during retirement You'll likely spend more on health care as you get older, but that may be offset by fewer expenses on all other things from food to transportation and clothing.

Can new orca habitats right SeaWorld's sinking ship? Theme park company is struggling from bad press following the release of a damning documentary.

Dollar General bids $9.7 billion for Family Dollar Counter-offer disrupts agreed $8.5 billion merger with Dollar Tree.

Moms group asks Kroger to ban guns in its stores The call to curb guns comes after pro-open carry activists brought firearms into Kroger stores while grocery shopping.

Glenn Hubbard: B-schools must unravel lessons from crisis at the VA Increasingly, major social and business problems call for managers to integrate a toolbox of skills from finance to healthcare.

By Stephen Gandel The economic imbalance fueling Ferguson's unrest While the Ferguson and St. Louis regional economies have been on the upswing, the gains have not been equally shared among white and African Americans.

By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Video: Bots already dominate the stock exchanges. Your job is next. Got 15 minutes? Let CGP Grey explain how robots will make most of our grandchildren as unemployable as horses.

By Geoffrey Smith China's real estate malaise drags on as home prices fall again Declines widen across almost all major cities, adding to fears about the health of the banking sector.

Sensata buys auto-parts supplier Schrader for $1 billion

Dollar stores and Urban Outfitters — five things to know today

One of Apple's new board member's old funds sold 9 million shares in Q2

European markets rebound sharply as Ukraine fears recede

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