Finance
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Why you shouldn’t pay down your mortgage fasterSep 02, 2012 7:40 am - The impulse to pay off your mortgage more quickly than you need to is understandable, especially these days. Interest rates are near historic lows, so it’s possible to r...
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Pension investors demand Aetna disclose political cashSep 02, 2012 7:27 am - NEW YORK — Aetna and 19 other companies are being urged to disclose their contributions to independent political organizations by investors including unions and state pe...
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Subscription buying for kids offers no-hassle funSep 01, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Want to cut the time and hassle of shopping for your kids? A bevy of subscription buying services with names like FabKids and Kiwi Crate have emerged over the...
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California Senate kills bid to end business tax breakSep 01, 2012 1:50 pm - A California bill that would have stripped out-of-state corporations of an option for lowering their state income taxes was defeated in the closing hours of the Legislat...
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Bernanke defends bond purchases in signal of more Fed easingSep 01, 2012 10:05 am - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, with a little more than a year left in his second term, defended the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policies such as ...
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A breakfast drink with that burritoAug 31, 2012 1:11 pm - NEW YORK — Rise and shine. It’s time for breakfast soda. Taco Bell said Friday that it’s adding Mtn Dew A.M — a mix of Mountain Dew soda and Tropicana orange juice — to ...
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Sears Holdings loses place in S&P 500Aug 29, 2012 10:48 pm - Sears Holdings Corp. was replaced in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries NV, according to S&P, which said the retailer has too fe...
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Markets stall as traders await US Fed chief speechAug 28, 2012 6:34 am - PARIS — Stock markets retreated Tuesday due to global worries about the impact of the eurozone debt crisis and as investors awaited a key speech by the U.S. central bank...
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Draghi skips Jackson Hole as ECB shapes bond plansAug 28, 2012 6:33 am - FRANKFURT, Germany — European Central Bank head Mario Draghi calls off his trip to an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, due to a heavy workl...
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American Eagle Mechanics, Bag Handlers Split on Concessions (1) c.2012 Bloomberg News (Updates with AMR comment in fourth paragraph.)Aug 24, 2012 4:31 pm - Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- American Eagle mechanics rejected a new contract with parent AMR Corp. to reduce labor costs as the company restructures in bankruptcy, while bagg...