Insurance companies and construction businesses are in open war with trial lawyers and labor unions over New Yorks millennia-old Scaffold Law, which institutes absolute liability on contractors if an employee is injured or killed on the job.

The dollar approached a 14-month high amid bets the Federal Reserve may change its pledge in a policy statement to keep interest rates low for a considerable time.

The House and Senate are both working on different revisions of the Collins amendment.

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