Markets
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U.S. stocks mostly flat after weak jobs reportSep 07, 2012 8:08 am - NEW YORK — The stock market followed one of its most exciting days of the year with a rather dull one Friday. Indexes barely rose following a weak jobs report, which inc...
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Farmers hopeful for soybean crops despite droughtSep 06, 2012 4:15 pm - ST. LOUIS — The worst drought in the United States in decades may already have done its damage to the nation’s corn crop now being harvested. But growers say their soybe...
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Stocks barely move; FedEx sinks on profit warningSep 05, 2012 9:44 am - NEW YORK — U.S. stock prices are closing mixed, held in check by a warning from the huge package delivery company FedEx that its profits would be hurt because of a slowd...
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Stocks end mixed on weak US economic reportsSep 04, 2012 11:37 am - NEW YORK — Stocks zigged and zagged after reports that the U.S. economy is weakening at a time when China and Europe are also slowing. The Dow Jones industrial average c...
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Campbell Soup 4Q profit rises on U.S. soup salesSep 04, 2012 8:21 am - CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell Soup’s net income rose 27 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter on strong sales of soup and other simple meals in the U.S. The results beat analys...
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Oil price up to near $97 ahead of ECB meetingSep 04, 2012 8:21 am - The price of oil crept up closer to $97 a barrel on Tuesday on expectations that the European Central Bank will soon announce new measures to fight the continent’s debt ...
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Bogle: Time to end money-market fund ‘illusion’Sep 02, 2012 7:29 am - John C. “Jack” Bogle is 83 and outspoken. Over the years, the Vanguard Group founder has frequently criticized the mutual fund industry that he helped nurture. In the 19...
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Oil companies returning to offshore sites in gulfSep 01, 2012 1:46 pm - NEW ORLEANS — Oil companies have begun returning workers to drilling rigs and production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Offshore sites in the gulf were abandoned as th...
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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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Stocks give up some gains on Bernanke remarksAug 31, 2012 10:00 am - It took a while, but investors eventually decided they liked what they heard from Ben Bernanke, and stock indexes rose enough on Friday to put them into positive territo...