| $787 billion rescue nears finish line
February 13, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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|  It's practically a done deal. Still controversial, but practically a done deal. |
| Bank failures: 11 so far this year
February 13, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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|  Two more banks folded Friday, bringing the total number of banks to fail this year to 11. |
| Citi, JPMorgan temporarily halt foreclosures
February 13, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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|  JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup Inc. announced plans Friday to temporarily halt foreclosures as the government works to finalize the details of a financial rescue package that could include billions of dollars in aid for struggling homeowners. |
| Auto parts makers ask for $25.5B in aid
February 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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| A group representing auto parts suppliers has asked the Treasury Department for a total of $22.5 billion in financial assistance. |
| Tough week, but Obama likely to get bill
February 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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|  It looks like President Obama will get his stimulus bill on his desk on time. But it wasn't pretty. |
| Deadline looms for Detroit -- much at stake
February 13, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  On Tuesday, General Motors and Chrysler LLC have to submit plans to the government that show how they plan to turnaround their troubled companies. It won't be an easy task. |
| States counting on their slice of $787B
February 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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|  Though not quite as generous as first envisioned, the federal stimulus package funnels a nice chuck of change to states to help them deal with their yawning budget gaps. |
| Buffett to buy $250M Tiffany debt
February 13, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| G7 vow to stabilize economy
February 13, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| Chrysler in a crunch
February 13, 2009 at 4:44 pm
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|  Just days before Chrysler LLC is supposed to show the government it can become a healthy company, the automaker has been scrambling to get dealers to order more cars. |
| Bankruptcy for tainted peanut company
February 13, 2009 at 4:42 pm
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|  The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, Peanut Corp. of America, filed Friday for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in court in Lynchburg, Va. |
| Oil jumps as House OK's stimulus
February 13, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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|  Oil prices jumped Friday by the largest amount in a single-day since the end of 2008 as a $787 billion stimulus bill designed to jump-start the economy moved one step closer to full congressional approval. |
| Mind over matter
February 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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| In 2004, a 25-year-old Englishman named Daniel Tammet took his seat in an auditorium in Oxford and proceeded to recite the value of pi to 22,514 decimal places. He speaks 12 languages, including Icelandic (which he learned in a week) and Mnti (which he invented). And he's written two books. |
| The audacity of hopelessness
February 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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| So much for change you can believe in. |
| The last man
February 13, 2009 at 12:53 pm
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| This is an update to senior management on a situation that was brought to the attention of Human Resources last Thursday. On that day Ned Larvish in Accounting came to the conclusion, while engaged in his study of elevator usage patterns, that there was a remaining employee in the building who was below vice president level. The individual appeared to be nesting somewhere in sub-basement No. 3. The news seemed incredible. I was tasked with ascertaining its veracity. |
| MBA students seek backup plan in tough times
February 13, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| Dollar retreats against euro, pound
February 13, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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|  The dollar weakened against the euro and the pound Friday, despite dour readings on Europe's economy, as rising stock prices bolstered investors appetite for high yielding assets. |
| Charities see donations drop as need spikes
February 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  Charities are just as vulnerable, if not more so, to economic weakness as are corporations. |
| Stocks inch lower
February 13, 2009 at 11:34 am
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|  Stocks turned lower Friday morning, struggling to find momentum in a choppy session, as investors awaited the House and Senate's votes on the $789.5 billion economic stimulus plan. |
| Who will buy all those treasurys?
February 13, 2009 at 11:25 am
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| Read full story for latest details. |
| E-document vendors' paperless profits
February 13, 2009 at 11:09 am
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|  Say good-bye to the piles of paper that arrive in the mail anytime you buy shares of a stock, bond or mutual fund. |
| Consumer confidence plunges
February 13, 2009 at 11:04 am
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| 'Buy American' rules still topic of debate
February 13, 2009 at 10:58 am
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|  The heated war of words over "Buy American" laws may be nearing a truce in Congress, but there are still fears among critics that it could spark a new global trade war. |
| The man who wooed Woz
February 13, 2009 at 10:55 am
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| Amid all the reports last week of rising unemployment and Washington's struggle to pass a stimulus package readers of the business press could not be blamed for missing the news that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak accepted a job as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a storage startup based in Salt Lake City. |
| Starbucks instant: A weak brew
February 13, 2009 at 10:50 am
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| Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been hyping a major announcement for weeks, hinting only that it would involve "innovation, competition, and value." |
| Boring stuff coming to stores near you
February 13, 2009 at 10:41 am
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|  Here's some bad news for consumers who are actually in the mood to shop through this recession: Bland, boring and basic products are coming to stores near you. |
| Treasury prices slide
February 13, 2009 at 10:40 am
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|  Government debt prices slid Friday as investors assessed the Obama administration's economic rescue efforts and the volume of debt coming to market to fund the operations. |
| OPEC slashes 2009 world oil demand again
February 13, 2009 at 10:39 am
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| Inside Obama's economic crusade
February 13, 2009 at 10:29 am
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|  On a day in early February when incoming White House officials under previous administrations would have just been learning how to use their office phones, the Obama economic team is already racing against the clock. |
| Oil rises near $35 before stimulus vote
February 13, 2009 at 10:09 am
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|  Read full story for latest details. |
| SunPower's split personality
February 13, 2009 at 9:47 am
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|  Quick quiz. You have two classes of shares in a company. Class A was floated as part of the company's initial public offering. Class B represents the original ownership share of the parent company. They always existed, and therefore are non-dilutive. | |
Banks may need money - they just claim that they don't want it from the U.S. government anymore.
The economic stimulus bill aims to create millions of jobs around "shovel-ready" projects.
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