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Typical CEO made $9.6 million in ’11
NEW YORK — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associa...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press New York Stock Exchange Governor Nicholas Briganti works with traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks alternated between gains and losses throughout the day.
H-P leads Dow to 4th day of gains in May
NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard helped pull the Dow Jones industrial average to a slight gain Thursday, giving the index only its fourth gain this month. Stocks flipped between gains and losses throu...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Enkelin Berberi of Albany fills out a job application during a career fair at the Empire State Convention Center in Albany, N.Y. The Labor Department say that weekly applications for benefits dipped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 370,000.
Weekly jobless aid applications dip
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits changed little last week, signaling modest job growth. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for benefits di...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why Facebook still doesn’t look cheap to investors
NEW YORK — If you were thinking of picking up a few shares of Facebook last week, when it went public at a price of $38, you might be seriously tempted now that the stock has fallen $7 in two days....
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stocks end mixed after worries resurface
NEW YORK — Just how nervous are investors about Greece? All it took to derail a day of stock market gains was a headline saying that Greece was preparing to leave the euro, an outcome most anal...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Home sales rise across country, fuel hope for recovery
WASHINGTON — Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country, the latest indication that the housing market could be on the mend. An increasing portion of those sales are from fir...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yahoo nears selling stake in Alibaba
NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell half of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba. The struggling U.S. Internet company has been negotiating o...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool French President Francois Hollande, listens as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the start of the first working session of the G8 Summit at Camp David, Md., on Saturday.
Obama sees ‘emerging consensus’ on economic fix
CAMP DAVID, Md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A security worker smokes outside a money exchange house showing a sign with the official government-set exchange rate of 4.47 Argentine pesos per 1 U.S. dollar in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The AFIP tax collection agency's recent measure to control and approve every currency exchange operation in the country has made it practically impossible for Argentines to buy dollars, forcing them to get the currency on the black market. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentina: Black market grows with currency issues
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Along a busy street in the Argentine capital, the man in the brown suit doesn’t need to speak above a whisper to sell his goods: “Money change. Money change.” Those who wa...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jiabao calls for efforts to spur China’s growth
BEIJING — Premier Wen Jiabao called for more priority to be given to boosting China’s slowing economic growth, a state news agency reported Sunday, after unusually weak industrial activity in April...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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