Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Newspaper publisher and TV station owner Media General said Wednesday that it is exploring the sale of its newspaper operations, which produce nearly half its revenue.The company said that it has received ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
A day after Dow 13,000, investors took a break.Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 27.02 points to finish at 12,938.67. The day ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring-buying season.Sales of previously occupied homes are at their highest level since May 2010. More first-time buyers are making purchases. ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
President Barack Obama rolled out a corporate tax overhaul plan Wednesday that lowers rates but also eliminates loopholes and subsidies cherished by the business world. A long-shot for action in an election ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets.The ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Eric Mueller's vacation started when his plane filled with smoke. Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft.Mueller loved every minute of it.Most days he runs ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
A previously rejected weight loss pill won an overwhelming endorsement from public health advisers Wednesday, raising hopes that the drug from Vivus Inc. could become the first new anti-obesity medication ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Ford Motor Co. will pump $3.8 billion into its global pension plans this year as it tries to get them closer to fully funding their obligations.The company also raised the annual pay for its 16 directors ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman pleaded for patience Thursday as she described operational challenges and other internal problems that contributed to a decline in earnings at one of the world's largest ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved close to $370,000 in bonuses for 20 employees of Solyndra LLC, a solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government before ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
HP says its net income fell 44 percent in the most recent quarter as revenue dipped in the midst of an attempted turnaround under new leadership.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Greece on Wednesday insisted a new euro130 billion ($172 billion) bailout deal will "bind" it to the euro, but again lowered expectations of recovery as it faced skeptical world markets, continued ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Federal prosecutors investigating the West Virginia coal mine explosion that killed 29 men are working their way up the corporate ladder with criminal charges.On Wednesday, the former superintendent of ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase of spectrum from cable ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Oil prices rose Wednesday on the expectation that world supplies could be squeezed further because of ongoing tensions with Iran.Iran, the world's third-biggest oil exporter, has been in a standoff with ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Gannett's stock rose more than 4 percent Wednesday, after the company outlined a plan to return $1.3 billion to shareholders by 2015.Gannett Co., Inc., the diversified media company and publisher of newspapers, ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
U.S. home resales surged in January to a 1-1/2 year high and the supply of properties on the market was the lowest in almost seven years, pointing to a nascent housing recovery.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Oil is in the spotlight with global prices near a nine-month high after Iran announced it was stopping oil shipments to France and Britain.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it would look into whether banks misled customers about the fees.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
The Greek parliament, barricaded from protests by workers and pensioners angry over austerity, scrambled on Wednesday to pass laws needed to secure payment of a second international bailout for the debt-laden ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Some public agencies that rely on the municipal bond market for financing fear that a landmark financial reform rule will cripple their ability to sell bonds and make it more expensive to raise money for ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Lost in the news of the faux resolution to the Greek budget crisis earlier this week is the fact that the issue hasn't really been Greece at all. Economically speaking Greece will be comatose, at best, for the foreseeable future. The real goal of all this paper shuffling and gesturing by European officials is saving [...]
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Excessive regulation of financial institutions is squeezing out middle-class consumers who soon will find themselves locked out of the banking system, analyst Meredith Whitney said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Fitch ratings agency says it has downgraded Greece further into junk status, from 'CCC' to 'C' following the announcement of the details of the country's debt swap deal with private creditors.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
U.S. stocks were lower in early trading Wednesday as investors worry over the details of a new bailout plan for Greece.The Dow Jones industrial average is down 8 points at 12,957, a day after hitting 13,000 ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Unions say they are gearing up to spend more than $400M to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this election year in a fight for labor's survival.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed opening for Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.1 percent, the Dow Jones futures flat and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.1 percent. The Mortgage ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Mazda Motor Corp is looking to raise up to $2 billion in a bigger-than-expected public share offering, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday, which would cause a massive 69 percent dilution of its existing ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Ford Motor Co is pouring $3.8 billion into its global pension plan this year and will invest its plan assets more heavily in bonds, as the second-largest U.S. automaker moves more aggressively to minimize ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories | Filed under: Most Popular | Comments Off
Europe's debt crisis will dominate talks between Group of 20 policymakers this weekend as the rest of the world looks for pledges that the euro zone will boost its crisis safety net. Advanced and developing ...
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