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SF Gate
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Sales of new homes rose in April for the first time in six months although the unexpected increase still left activity near the lowest level in 17 years.
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that sales of new homes rose 3.3 percent in April to a se..
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MSNBC
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The dollar dipped below 100 yen for the first time in 12 years Thursday and hit record lows against the euro amid a growing consensus that synchronized efforts by central banks will not stop a deterioration in the U.S. economy.
The euro exceeded $1.56..
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CBC
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The Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. greenback on Thursday for the first time since November 1976.
The loonie briefly reached $1.0003 US on foreign exchange markets shortly before 11 a.m. ET, the Bank of Canada said. The loonie's stint at p..
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FOX News
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Northwest Airlines Corp. exited bankruptcy Thursday, marking the end of a 20-month Chapter 11 reorganization and the first time in almost five years that no major U.S. airline is bankrupt.
Northwest spent a year-and-a-half hacking $2.4 billion off its..
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Times Online
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Apple has given warning that it could be removed from the highly regarded Nasdaq Global Select Market, as the maker of iPod and Macintosh acknowledged for the first time that it was the subject of a federal investigation into its stock option practices...
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New York Times
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Time Inc. abruptly removed Eric Pooley as the managing editor of Fortune magazine yesterday, and named Andrew Serwer, a senior editor at large, to succeed him, becoming the magazine’s third top editor in less than six years...
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BusinessWeek
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The changes affecting the global auto industry are nothing new but they are more serious. Too bad carmakers didn't learn the first time
If hindsight is 20-20 vision, then automotive executives must spend a lot of time looking in the rear-view window...
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CNN
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The dollar dipped below 100 yen for the first time in 12 years Thursday amid growing worries about a U.S. economic slowdown and expectations for lower U.S. interest rates. The dollar also fell to record lows against the euro, which rose above $1.5625 mid-..
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BusinessWeek
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Annoyed with the ad deluge on social networks, many users are spending less time on the sites
If you want to socialize with Chris Heritage, you won't find him on Facebook. The 27-year-old Port St. Lucie (Fla.) business analyst joined the social network..
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BusinessWeek
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Time Warner's plan to separate AOL's free, ad-supported portal from its dial-up business could lead to closer ties with Google
Time Warner (TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally begun to exorcise the demons of Jan. 10, 2000. That, of course, was the day tha..
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MSNBC
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The day after Kate Massey’s grandmother died last September, the only thing on her mind, other than grief, was how she was going to take time off for the funeral and the wake.
Massey, who’s the director of business development for Kel & Partners, a..
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MSNBC
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With Wall Street falling precipitously almost by the day, investors are asking what it will take to revive it. Market experts are increasingly coming to the same answer: Time.
There is no piece of economic data, no corporate earnings report, no move by..
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BusinessWeek
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Proposed changes in the cable provider's fees for Web use could crimp demand for download services and hurt Net innovation
Done right, a plan by Time Warner's (TWX) cable division to charge higher fees for heavy Internet users could become a boon for m..
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BusinessWeek
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Growth is set to slow as oil and food prices continue their climb—an unwelcome, familiar combination. But there are reasons to expect a gentler version this time around
There's a whiff of stagflation in the air. Not the 1970s disease, when a stagnant..
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BusinessWeek
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European officials want more time to review the proposed DoubleClick deal, and critics in the U.S. hope the FTC is paying attention
Sheer size has helped Google (GOOG) dominate much of the world's $30 billion online advertising market. But the search g..
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BusinessWeek
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To understand why the Fed chairman spends so much time worrying about inflation, not housing or the stock market, imagine taking a certain ride with him
To understand why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke worries so much about inflation, think of h..
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MSNBC
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They are giving themselves a respectable margin this time,’’ said Richard Aboulafia, vice president for analysis at Teal Group, a Fairfax, Va.-based aerospace research company. “It’s better to get it good than get it on time.”
The bad news, h..
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BusinessWeek
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The cell-phone operator's Sugar Mama program compensates subscribers with free call time for interacting with ads on their phones
Much has been made of the Web-like marketing dollars to be earned by shooting ads to cell phones. But there's been little..
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CNN
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CNN's Paula Sailles has traveled to Paris to cover the air show at Le Bourget. This is her first time at the world's biggest international aerospace event, and she is writing a blog to give you a first-hand account of life behind the scenes at Le Bourget...
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MSN Money Central
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Executive compensation continues to soar, even for many CEOs whose job performance has been terrible. These five companies paid the most to CEOS while their stocks did little for shareholders.
I have a friend living in Harlem who works at a clothing sh..
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