Business Stories from March 7, 2013 (Change date)
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Oil up on growing crude suppliesMar 07, 2013 5:42 am - BANGKOK — Oil prices were slightly higher Thursday as reports of a moderately improving U.S. economy, which suggests increased fuel consumption, were neutralized by grow...
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Indiana company searching for oil pins hopes on Cass Co.Mar 07, 2013 5:41 am - WALTON, Ind. — An Indianapolis company searching for oil across Indiana hopes an oil field that once was the largest in the United States can be lucrative again. The Pha...
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Flight attendants protest new policy on knivesMar 07, 2013 5:38 am - WASHINGTON — The vice president of a flight attendants union says a new policy that would allow airline passengers to carry small knives is “outrageous.” Sara Nelson, vi...
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Adidas posts Q4 loss on weaker Reebok prospectsMar 07, 2013 5:36 am - FRANKFURT, Germany — Sports gear maker Adidas AG says it lost (euro) 273 million ($356 million) as it wrote down the value of its weakening Reebok brand. The company, b...
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Obama presses on with GOP charm offensiveMar 07, 2013 5:36 am - WASHINGTON — Punctuated with the sounds of ringing phones and clinking china, President Barack Obama’s new legislative diplomacy has Republicans wondering what took so l...
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Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lagsMar 07, 2013 5:35 am - RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — Like tens of thousands of people who lost everything in the tsunami that pulverized Japan’s northeastern coast two years ago, 83-year-old Hide Sat...
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Markets remain buoyed by Dow’s new recordMar 07, 2013 5:35 am - LONDON — The positive mood in financial markets showed few signs of abating Thursday ahead of policy statements from Europe’s top two central banks. Wall Street’s eye-po...
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Toyota chief stresses safe growthMar 07, 2013 5:32 am - TOKYO — After four tumultuous years bookended by an unprecedented recall crisis and a return to the top of the global auto industry, Akio Toyoda is refashioning Toyota M...
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Facebook revamps site to get more personalMar 07, 2013 5:00 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook has redesigned its social network to address complaints that the News Feed on its website has turned into a jumble of monotonous musings an...
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Ads out of closet, into mainstream with gay themesMar 07, 2013 5:00 am - NEW YORK — A new TV commercial features a good-looking young woman on a beach vacation lounging next to a good-looking young man. He bemoans the glare on his iPad and sh...