Business Stories from September 9, 2011 (Change date)
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Retail sales kick off with NFL seasonSep 11, 2011 12:50 am - NEW YORK — When the NFL and players struck a deal to end the league’s lockout, they didn’t just save the football season that begins its first full day of games on Sunda...
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Antioch woman's 'pet project' could win $10,000Sep 13, 2011 7:30 pm - After she watched her cats scare away countless birds from her Antioch backyard's bird feeder, an ad for a homemade pet project contest sparked Candace Walters' imaginat...
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Reports: Russia to sell 15 percent in RosneftSep 09, 2011 8:41 pm - MOSCOW — Russian news agencies say the government has announced plans to sell up to 15 percent in top oil producer Rosneft next year for around $6.7 billion. RIA-Novosti...
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Fact check: Obama’s jobs plan paid for? Seems notSep 11, 2011 12:50 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. It will only be paid for if ...
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Hungary seeks to allow repayments at fixed FX rateSep 10, 2011 8:40 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s governing party is considering allowing people with debts in foreign currencies to repay them in a lump sum at an exchange rate much lower ...
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Developed nations debate how to restore growthSep 10, 2011 8:40 am - MARSEILLE, France — The financial leaders of the world’s most developed economies were wrangling Friday over how to revive a faltering economic recovery at a time when i...
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Porsche shares tank as VW says no merger this yearSep 10, 2011 8:40 am - FRANKFURT, Germany — Porsche shares are down sharply after Volkswagen said a merger between the two German carmakers will not be completed by the year-end as planned. Sh...
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Kelmscott Communications, Graphix Products announce mergerSep 10, 2011 8:40 am - AURORA — Kelmscott Communications Inc. and Graphix Products Inc. announced the two companies will merge, effective immediately. The new company will operate under the Ke...
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Top European Central Bank official Stark resigns unexpectedlySep 11, 2011 12:50 am - FRANKFURT, Germany — Top European Central Bank official Juergen Stark is resigning well before the end of his term, removing a key voice for higher interest rates and ra...
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Greenspan says gold’s rise ‘vote of no confidence’ in currenciesSep 10, 2011 8:40 am - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said today that gold’s rise is a “vote of no confidence” in the world’s vital currencies and that gold should be thought o...