Business Stories from December 12, 2012 (Change date)
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Top 2012 searches include Whitney, PSY, SandyDec 12, 2012 9:08 am - LOS ANGELES — The world’s attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal p...
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McDonald's $8 man serving $8.75 million CEO shows pay-gap surgeDec 12, 2012 9:00 am - Tyree Johnson scrubs himself with a bar of soap in a McDonald's bathroom and puts on fresh deodorant. He stashes his toiletries in a Kenneth Cole bag, a gift from his mo...
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Vegas wedding chapels hope to cash in on 12-12-12Dec 12, 2012 8:53 am - LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in a city accustomed to playing the numbers aren’t about to ...
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Culligan Matrix Solutions expands mobile businessDec 12, 2012 8:45 am - PRNewswire ROSEMONT — Culligan Matrix Solutions, a division of Culligan International Co., is expanding its mobile water treatment solutions business in response to incr...
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Grainger reports sales increase in NovemberDec 12, 2012 8:43 am - Mettawa-based W.W. Grainger said sales for November increased 8 percent over the same period last year, with strong showing in both domestic and international markets. T...
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Obama’s fiscal cliff strategy is tricky balanceDec 12, 2012 8:17 am - WASHINGTON — Playing both sides, President Barack Obama is trying to balance his public pressure campaign on Republicans over the looming “fiscal cliff” with his private...
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Fiscal cliff talks intensify; Obama and Boehner speakDec 12, 2012 8:17 am - WASHINGTON — Despite an intensifying pace, little progress is being reported in talks on averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases that economists fear could se...
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Avon Products to cut 1,500 jobs, leave 2 marketsDec 12, 2012 6:33 am - NEW YORK — Avon Products says it will cut about 1,500 jobs and exit two Asian markets as the struggling beauty products seller takes some initial steps toward its cost-c...
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U.S. economy could withstand brief fall off ‘cliff’Dec 12, 2012 6:29 am - WASHINGTON — It’s the scenario that’s been spooking employers and investors and slowing the U.S. economy: Congress and the White House fail to strike a budget deal by Ne...
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OPEC ministers signal no change in output targetDec 12, 2012 6:24 am - Associated Press VIENNA — OPEC oil ministers signaled Wednesday that they will opt to stick to present output targets at their meeting later in the day while remaining u...