News roundup: Shell profits rebound … Sears lays off 220 corporate employees … Elon Musk stops taking orders for flamethrowers after $10M in sales

    Doubling up: Royal Dutch Shell took advantage of rising oil prices in Q4 last year, doubling its profits from the same time period a year before. After oil prices plunged in 2016—to less than $30 pe…


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