Markets
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Stocks rise on hope that DC will end its bickeringOct 04, 2013 3:00 pm - NEW YORK — Wall Street thinks Washington's gridlock could be easing. Stocks posted modest gains Friday, driven by budding optimism among traders that Washington's bicker...
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Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatiseOct 04, 2013 10:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet. The roughly 800...
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Stocks fall as fears of protracted shutdown growOct 02, 2013 5:07 pm - NEW YORK — Fear of a protracted U.S. government shutdown is making global investors increasingly nervous. U.S. and European stock markets fell Wednesday as investors and...
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Markets rise even as US government shutdown startsOct 01, 2013 4:13 pm - NEW YORK — Investors stayed calm on the first day of a partial shutdown of the U.S. government Tuesday and sent the stock market modestly higher. A long-running dispute...
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Stocks sink as government heads toward shutdownSep 30, 2013 4:16 pm - NEW YORK — Stocks sank Monday as Wall Street worried that a budget fight in Washington could lead to an event far worse for the economy— a failure to raise the nation’s ...
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Only some mutual fund managers invest in their ownSep 29, 2013 6:25 am - NEW YORK — Would you eat at a restaurant where the chefs didn’t eat their own cooking? Would you have joined the Hair Club if the president weren’t also a client? Then w...
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No escape from jail or fines in global market-abuse curbsSep 28, 2013 11:00 pm - Crooked bankers and insider traders would have no safe havens under planned global guidelines for market-abuse penalties, amid concerns some countries don't have strict ...
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Stocks don’t melt down when government shuts downSep 27, 2013 5:54 pm - NEW YORK — The government shuts down. The economy unravels. Stocks plunge. That may be Wall Street’s worst fear, but history shows it’s mostly overblown. There have been...
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Stocks fall on government shutdown worriesSep 27, 2013 4:42 pm - The budget fight may be happening in Washington, but it’s investors on Wall Street who keep getting smacked. Stocks fell Friday for the sixth day out of the last seven, ...
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Empire State Building owner, Potbelly going publicSep 27, 2013 3:13 pm - NEW YORK — Starting next week, you could own a piece of the Empire State Building. Or, if iconic New York skyscrapers aren’t your thing, you could bite into Potbelly, a ...