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AP Business Headlines
NEW YORK (AP) -- When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy....
NEW YORK (AP) -- That old saying "cash is king" certainly rings true these days. Investors can't seem to get enough of it, which ultimately could be bad news for the stock market and the economy....
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People....
LONDON (AP) -- Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay....
BERLIN (AP) -- Negotiations for the sale of General Motors Corp.'s unit Adam Opel GmbH to Canadian autoparts maker Magna are progressing well and should soon be complete, the head of GM Europe said in remarks released Saturday....
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Wall Street Journal Headlines
Miner Teck Resources will sell a 17% stake to China Investment Corp. for about $1.5 billion, to reduce bank debt.


U.S., U.K. and Austrian prosecutors are investigating a former fund manager they believe was paid more than $40 million in kickbacks to funnel billions of dollars of investments to Madoff.


China's central government reiterated its opposition to carbon tariff policies and said they could provoke a trade war, ratcheting up the rhetoric as lawmakers in the U.S. consider legislation to reduce greenhouse gases.


A federal judge ordered the appointment of a permanent receiver over Danny Pang's companies and ruled that there was sufficient evidence of fraud to justify a continued freeze of his assets.


British Airways reported that passenger traffic declined in June, prompting the carrier to further reduce summer and winter capacity.
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CNNMoney Headlines
Never mind the headlines -- for some fireworks companies, there's no slump.
A dismal jobs report has set the stage for what could be a month of reality checks on Wall Street as the spring stock rally hits a wall.
Tech competition is heating up: Google vs. Microsoft! Microsoft vs. Apple! Apple vs. Palm! Here's how the second half of '09 is shaping up.
Seven banks were shut down by authorities Thursday, pushing the tally of failed banks for 2009 to 52, more than doubling the failures in 2008.
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NY Times Business Headlines
Homeowners in the U.S. are challenging their property tax bills in droves as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big drain on their budgets.

P.R. gurus are courting influential voices on services like Twitter to endorse new companies, Web sites or gadgets, perhaps forever altering their roles.

Chegg.com, which rents textbooks to college students, says it had 2008 revenue of more than $10 million.

A yearning for independence simmers in the heart of many a 9-to-5er, but being your own boss comes with a major amount of risk.

Students took out loans to attend a flight school that later collapsed. Then they pooled resources and hired a lawyer.
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USA Today Business Headlines
Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's ...


The mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington, economists ...


The Saturday Evening Post, a centuries-old publication that helped make illustrator Norman Rockwell a household name and showcased ...


Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike ...


A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday.
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