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CHICAGO — Sears Holdings will sell its Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker for about $900 million, the companies announced Thursday. The deal will provide another cash infusion for Sears, but it comes at a cost — broadening distribution of the well-known brand gives consumers one less reason to choose to shop at the…
WASHINGTON — When Republican senators investigated a little-known San Francisco nonprofit steering as much as $50 million a year to climate change activists, the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News pounced on the report. Breitbart branded the organization, the Sea Change Foundation, as a vehicle for “rich liberals who are secretly funding the green movement’s war on…
CHICAGO — Volkswagen AG plans to take a 16.6 percent stake in Navistar International as part of a wide-ranging alliance that gives the manufacturer access to products and services of the German vehicle-maker’s truck and bus business. Navistar, headquartered in suburban Chicago, will receive a $256 million equity investment from VW, which will pay $15.76 a…