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Stocks boosted by bank plan

NEW YORK(CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks rallied early Monday as investors welcomed the Treasury's much-anticipated plan to buy up at least $500 billion in bad bank assets, seeing it as a key step in ...
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Another huge Dow loss

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Recession talk scared Wall Street Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its second biggest one-day point loss ever. A weak retail sales report and dour ...
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Weak start on Wall Street

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks dipped Tuesday morning, amid worries that the problems for the subprime lending market might spread over to the rest of the economy. A weaker reading on retail sales ...
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Dow gains, Nasdaq wanes

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks struggled for direction around midday Monday as investors sorted through some mixed economic news at the end of a big month on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial ...
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Stocks end the week with a bang

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks soared Friday, with the Dow industrials spiking more than 300 points, as oil prices slumped almost $5 a barrel to three-month lows and the dollar rallied against ...
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How tight is this job market? Kohl's is already hiring for Christmas

Kohl's is getting a six-month head start on the holidays. The department store announced Wednesday that it is already accepting applications for seasonal positions. Kohl's is staking an early claim in ...
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Fox braces for fallout from Bill O'Reilly scandal

If Bill O'Reilly weren't the biggest star at Fox News, would he still have a job at Fox News? Many media industry observers, reading about the harassment allegations that have cost O'Reilly and Fox ...
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Apple's Tim Cook 'deeply disappointed' in Indiana's anti-gay law

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Friday that he's "deeply disappointed" in Indiana's new anti-gay law. "Apple is open for everyone," tweeted Cook, who came out as gay last year. "We are deeply disappointed in ...
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21 companies pull ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' in growing backlash

BMW of North America announced Tuesday that it was also suspending its ads on "The O'Reilly Factor." And the investment firm T.Rowe Price said Tuesday afternoon that it had decided to pull its ...
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ESPN president resigns, citing substance addiction

ESPN president John Skipper resigned on Monday, citing a substance addiction. "I have struggled for many years with a substance addiction," Skipper said in a statement. "I have decided that the most ...
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Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year

As if Apple needed the cash, the company has discovered a way to make tens of millions of dollars off of old, broken, unwanted iPhones. In its annual environmental report released this week, Apple ...