Markets
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Wall Street rallies as U.S. default threat easesOct 10, 2013 3:36 pm - NEW YORK — You can almost hear Wall Street exhaling. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 300 points Thursday after Republican leaders and President Barack ...
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Corn harvest coming in above expectationsOct 10, 2013 2:41 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa — Harvest is in full swing across the country, and farmers in many states are surprised at the abundance of corn they’re getting from their fields. Dair...
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Stocks end mostly higher on signs of compromiseOct 09, 2013 5:20 pm - NEW YORK — Signs that lawmakers are making moves to end a stalemate in Washington and avert a U.S. government debt default halted a slump on the stock market Wednesday. ...
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Mutual fund trends: Index funds win againOct 05, 2013 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — The numbers tell the story. The latest update on mutual fund performance is likely to widen the gap between investors who prefer index funds and those who fav...
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U.S. housing rebound likely to handle spike in ratesOct 04, 2013 3:46 pm - LOS ANGELES — When mortgage rates began climbing in May from rock-bottom lows, Kevin Williams worried he might miss out on an opportunity. So he listed his home in Orang...
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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 ...