Business Stories from December 7, 2012 (Change date)
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Stocks mixed as investors work through jobs reportDec 07, 2012 10:10 am - NEW YORK — The stock market was mixed Friday after the government released its latest jobs report. The U.S. added more jobs in November, sending stock index futures up i...
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Boehner: No progress in fiscal cliff talksDec 07, 2012 10:10 am - WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Friday there has been no progress in negotiations to avert a “fiscal cliff” combination of automatic tax increases and spend...
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Apple's softer side emerges under CEO CookDec 07, 2012 10:00 am - NEW YORK — “Those jobs aren't coming back.” That's what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider mov...
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Critic questions way coal firms build slurry pondsDec 07, 2012 8:38 am - MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators ar...
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West Dundee prepared to raise levy by 10 percentDec 07, 2012 8:18 am - Citing a need to replace aging equipment and vehicles, West Dundee authorities are prepared to raise the upcoming property tax levy for the first time since 2009. The p...
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Trade-offs in raising Medicare eligibility ageDec 07, 2012 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — Americans are living longer, and Republicans want to raise the Medicare eligibility age as part of any deal to reduce the government’s huge deficits. But wh...
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Higher rates or fewer tax breaks — what’s worse?Dec 07, 2012 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — In the fiscal cliff wars, a pivotal battle is raging between Democrats demanding to raise revenue by boosting tax rates on the nation’s highest earners and ...
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Mich. legislators defy unions, OK right-to-workDec 07, 2012 7:34 am - In an audacious flex of political muscle, Republicans in a single day reached the brink of a goal that for years has seemed an all-but-impossible dream: making the labor...
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Economy adds 146K jobs, rate at 7.7%Dec 07, 2012 6:46 am - The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had o...
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Aston Martin sells stake to investment fundDec 07, 2012 6:34 am - Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Aston Martin, the British maker of sports cars featured in James Bond movies, will sell a 37.5 percent stake to Investindustrial to shore up its fi...