Markets
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Stocks tumble on uneasiness about financials
Jul 08, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street tumbled Wednesday as investors grappled with renewed worries about the soundness of the financial sector. The major indexes fell more than 2 perc...
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Oil down more than $8 in 2 days
Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices fell as much as $6 a barrel Tuesday, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy ca...
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Stocks rise modestly on oil decline, Bernanke talk
Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street finished sharply higher Tuesday as oil prices dropped sharply for the second straight day and investors were encouraged by the possibility of mor...
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Rates fall in weekly Treasury bill auction
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction. The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate...
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Stocks fall on worries about financial sector
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street lost more ground in extremely volatile trading Monday, as investors recoiled at a cautious economic outlook from a Federal Reserve official and t...
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New investment funds target foreclosuresJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Vulture funds, as the name suggests, swoop in and buy bankrupt companies and then sell them with a profit in mind. Now a similar investment fund here recently formed to ...
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Indie artists drum up ties to corporations for successJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - When Greg Laswell recorded a demo in 2002, he ordered 1,000 copies of the CDs, sold a few if he got the chance and saved the boxes in which they were delivered to use as...
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Bottom stock fishers, bewareJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Many stocks are looking bombed out, but that doesn't mean they are cheap. That is because earnings estimates often haven't fallen quickly enough to reflect ever-dimmer e...
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Oil prices fall more than $1 a barrel
Jul 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel Friday from record levels set a day earlier on hopes that tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program could ease and cut the chance...
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Indie artists drum up ties to corporations for successJul 02, 2008 11:00 pm - When Greg Laswell recorded a demo in 2002, he ordered 1,000 copies of the CDs, sold a few if he got the chance and saved the boxes in which they were delivered to use as...