Markets
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Wall Street may cheer Fannie, Freddie bailout
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street finally got what it's been angling for: a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could aid a recovery of the broken U.S. housing market and a...
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Oil edges higher with Ike still aiming for Gulf
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Crude oil prices finished modestly higher Monday, but only after seesawing wildly as nervous traders watched the Hurricane Ike approach the Gulf of Mexico's ...
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Italian deli, gelateria opens in BartlettSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - BARTLETT - Bartlett residents Dan and Laura Driesbach opened Barese Italian Deli & Gelateria in Bartlett Town Center, 225 S. Main St. Barese offers a full range of made-...
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Report: Gov't may soon back Fannie, Freddie
Sep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON _ Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled in after-hours trading Friday following a report by The Wall Street Journal that th...
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Stocks generally up despite job worries
Sep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Stocks reversed a steep sell-off to end mostly higher Friday as fears about a worrisome jobs report gave way to bargain hunting in sectors like financials an...
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Oil prices drop as jobs data add to demand worries
Sep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices sank below $106 a barrel Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use...
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Stocks down more than 340 points after retail, unemployment data
Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street plunged Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points as retailers and the labor department added to the mountain of dism...
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Banks borrow more from Fed; Wall Street takes pass
Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Banks borrowed more over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms took a pass for the fifth week in a ro...
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Oil down after gasoline supplies report
Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices closed at their lowest level in five months Thursday as a lower-than-expected drop in U.S. gasoline stockpiles gave traders more reason to believe...
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Wall Street mixed on global economic worries
Sep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street finished mixed in fickle trading Wednesday, with investors still unsettled about the economy ahead of Friday's employment report and only somewha...