Business Stories from August 26, 2011 (Change date)
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After Apple's fall, is it time to buy or sell?Aug 27, 2011 6:15 am - NEW YORK — Should you buy or sell Apple? Investors largely shrugged off news this week that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO, barely selling its shares. But that hasn'...
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Generators, batteries big sellers ahead of IreneAug 27, 2011 6:15 am - NEW YORK — It’s the not-so-quiet before the storm. Hurricane Irene hasn’t hit the East Coast yet, but people up and down the Eastern Seaboard already are crowding hardwa...
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Shell opens Nigeria gas plant 2 days after closureAug 27, 2011 6:15 am - LAGOS, Nigeria — Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has reopened a natural gas plant after isolating the leakage point of a damaged pipeline in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern de...
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Drought disaster loans still availableAug 26, 2011 6:43 am - Federal officials say small businesses affected by drought in Illinois last year still can apply for economic injury disaster loans. The U.S. Small Business Administrat...
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Stocks fall after Bernanke offers no stimulusAug 26, 2011 12:37 pm - Stocks are falling in morning trading after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered no new steps to stimulate the U.S. economy. Hopes had been building on Wall St...
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Japan consumer prices up a tad in JulyAug 26, 2011 12:37 pm - TOKYO — Japan’s government says consumer prices unexpectedly rose in July from a year earlier as fuel costs climbed. The nation’s core consumer price index, which exclud...
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EPA settles civil rights complaint over pesticideAug 26, 2011 12:37 pm - FRESNO, Calif. — California pesticide regulators discriminated against Latino schoolchildren when they annually approved a powerful pesticide used near their schools, th...
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Will tollway expansion create 120,000 jobs?Aug 26, 2011 3:51 pm - A $12 billion capital plan that would create thousands of jobs seems like a panacea for the metropolitan region’s woeful unemployment rate of 10.5 percent. But predictin...
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Bernanke proposes no new steps to boost economyAug 27, 2011 6:15 am - JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaned on Congress on Friday to do more to promote hiring and growth, or risk delaying the economy's return to...
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State Dept report favors US-Canada oil pipelineAug 27, 2011 6:15 am - WASHINGTON — A Canadian company’s plan to pipe oil from Alberta to the Texas coast is not likely to cause significant environmental problems during construction or opera...