Finance
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Red Sox owner enters $70 million deal for Boston GlobeAug 03, 2013 1:30 pm - BOSTON — Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from it...
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CBS, Time Warner in talksAug 03, 2013 1:22 pm - Time Warner Cable and CBS say they are trying to settle a fee dispute that has left three million customers without the network’s programs. A Time Warner spokeswoman say...
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Senate plan drops Saturday mail deliveryAug 02, 2013 5:30 pm - WASHINGTON — Saturday mail delivery would be ended in a year and the Postal Service could start shipping alcoholic beverages under a plan offered Friday by two key senat...
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Wintrust in Rosemont acquires Diamond BancorpAug 02, 2013 10:17 am - Rosemont-based Wintrust Financial Corp announced it will acquire Diamond Bancorp Inc., the parent company of Diamond Bank, FSB. Terms of the acquisition were not announc...
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Factories, jobs, markets show resurgenceAug 01, 2013 8:12 pm - WASHINGTON — U.S. factories revved up production, hired more workers and received a surge of new orders in July, helping them expand at the fastest pace in two years. Th...
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Despite boom, higher costs push Big Oil into slumpAug 01, 2013 4:31 pm - NEW YORK — New troves of oil have been found all over the globe, and oil companies are taking in around $100 for every barrel they produce. But these seemingly prosperou...
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Ex-trader 'Fabulous Fab' found liable in SEC caseAug 01, 2013 4:00 pm - NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname “Fabulous Fab” was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to th...
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Google-funded sea research vessel sets sailAug 01, 2013 3:39 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive was scheduled to set sail from San Francisco on Thursday, on its way to study a “dead zone” in t...
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Obama picks restructuring expert to take over IRSAug 01, 2013 3:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen a retired corporate and government official with experience managing numerous organizations in crisis to take over an Inte...
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Chicago insurer CNA Financial posts higher 2Q net incomeJul 30, 2013 6:29 am - CNA Financial said Monday that its net income jumped 17 percent in the second quarter, as the insurer benefited from higher premiums and the impact of an underwriter acq...