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Hank's last stand (30 September 01:01) |
| On Sept. 11 of this year, an eerie morning stillness envelops lower Manhattan as a deep-blue Mercedes sedan pulls up alongside the state courthouse building on the outskirts of Chinatown. A ... |
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National City's line in the sand (30 September 12:40) |
| National City insists it isn't about to follow in the footsteps of Wachovia and Washington Mutual. But the events of the past week suggest the bank's depositors are the ones who will make th... |
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AIG's risky business (29 September 10:14) |
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Indie labels rebel against MySpace (29 September 08:53) |
| MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have always portrayed themselves as champions of independent music. The company is fond of pointing out that it has been a springboard for suc... |
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'The Golden Age for financial services is over' (29 September 06:00) |
| To reach the new power center of Wall Street, hop a cab to La Guardia, board a flight for Charlotte, stride into a beige granite tower, go past the allegorical murals of the common man at wo... |
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Shakeup at Lord & Taylor (27 September 04:11) |
| Faced with a dismal climate for consumer spending, Richard Baker, a real estate mogul turned boy wonder of retailing, has set in motion a dramatic shakeup of his crown jewel, the Lord & Tayl... |
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How it got this bad (27 September 04:08) |
| Washington Mutual failed Thursday in the biggest-ever U.S. bank failure - the latest twist in a month-long shakeout that has seen five major financial institutions either go bust or get nati... |
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Card companies jacking up rates (26 September 11:42) |
| When John Dykstra got his September credit card bill from Advanta, a small-business card issuer, he was shocked: Dykstra says he has a good credit score and has never missed a payment, but h... |
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Gas shortages: get ready for more (26 September 11:00) |
| While Congress and Bush administration officials have been working to complete a bailout plan and stem the financial contagion on Wall Street, a different kind of economic crisis emerged acr... |
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I was lucky to get out (26 September 10:58) |
| When Erin Callan, Lehman Brothers' onetime golden girl, left the firm in July, it was a tumultuous end to what had been a stellar 13-year run. She'd risen from tax lawyer to investment banke... |
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Goldman's commodities queen (26 September 07:31) |
| With some $3.4 billion in revenue, Goldman Sachs's commodities desk is not just a cash cow - it has also been a launchpad for CEO Lloyd Blankfein and president Gary Cohn. |
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RIM tripped, stock stumbles (26 September 07:30) |
| Research in Motion missed analysts estimates slightly and guided down for the fiscal third quarter. |
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Viacom's rocky pay-TV picture show (26 September 07:05) |
| In April, Paramount Pictures walked away from a deal to air its movies on pay-TV channel Showtime. Instead, it announced a plan to start up a rival channel with two other longtime Showtime s... |
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Social networking: Protect yourself (25 September 08:29) |
| If you suspected there were some security holes in all your password-protected online accounts - banking, e-mail, etc. - you would be right. And Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential... |
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Test driving the Google phone (25 September 05:17) |
| After a slew of disappointing touchscreen phones, the G1 gives the iPhone a run for its money. |
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Yang's do-or-die ad play (25 September 04:43) |
| At a glitzy press conference in New York on Wednesday, embattled Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang unveiled an ambitious new online advertising service that could be his last chance to preserve his compa... |
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Banks: Making saving sexy (25 September 03:07) |
| Why is it so hard to save money?" asks the narrator of a new Bank of America TV ad. "This is America. We save everything. We saved the bald eagle, the redwoods." Cue images of said eagle, sa... |
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U.S. could make money off the bailout (25 September 02:46) |
| Members of Congress are now debating whether the government should demand equity stakes in any bank included in the proposed $700 billion bailout being pushed by Treasury Secretary Hank Paul... |
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Analyst: Feds will limit Google-Yahoo pact (25 September 01:16) |
| The Google-Yahoo search advertising pact will get approval from the Department of Justice in the next few weeks, but not without some serious scaling back of the deal, according to one analy... |
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Paulson to the rescue (24 September 10:14) |
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Using the Web to make a TV hit even bigger (24 September 12:06) |
| Michael Westen, the main character in USA Network's hit show, "Burn Notice," has plenty going for him. He's attractive, and handy with a sniper rifle. But after spending ten years as a cover... |
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$500 oil on the way (23 September 08:02) |
| Matt Simmons is as perplexed as anyone that it has fallen to him to take on OPEC, Exxon, the Saudis, and all the other misguided defenders of conventional wisdom in the oil patch. Why should... |
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Her majesty's big, honkin' windmill (22 September 09:45) |
| It's been a century or so since Britain ruled the waves, but Queen Elizabeth II will soon reign over the wind. Earlier this year the Crown Estate, which manages royal property worth $14 bill... |
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The hottest tech job in America (22 September 09:43) |
| It looks like a scene from an old episode of "The X-Files": As a red-tailed hawk circles overhead and a wild pronghorn sheep grazes in the distance, a dozen people in dark sunglasses move me... |
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The trouble with Zunes (22 September 08:45) |
| When Microsoft introduced the Zune portable music player almost two years ago, even people at the company made light of it. Microsofties called it "the brick." The Zune was larger thanApple'... |
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California's hedge fund king (22 September 08:42) |
| As the summer of 2008 drew to a close, many hedge fund managers were worried about coaxing their returns out of negative territory by the end of the year. Thomas Steyer, who founded the gian... |
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How to sell in a lousy economy (22 September 05:06) |
| Despite a spate of negative economic indicators, these top salespeople haven't missed a step. |
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The end of Wall Street (22 September 12:41) |
| Rumor has it that Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld recently wanted to turn off the firm's signature Jumbotron, the giant panels that flash the Lehman name day and night at its headquarters in N... |
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Home Depot's total rehab (20 September 04:03) |
| The Home Depot's Francis S. (Frank) Blake has one of the biggest jobs in corporate America but one of its least famous faces. Which is what the CEO is counting on one weekday morning when he... |
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Is your iPhone cool? (20 September 03:52) |
| If you're still racking your brain trying to think of pre-meeting small talk - about the weather, say, or "The Game" - help has arrived. |
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As panic spreads, Buffett strikes (19 September 10:27) |
| There's nothing like a good financial panic to lure Warren Buffett off the sidelines. |
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Seagate wants you (19 September 09:41) |
| With a line of stylish new drives and a TV marketing campaign, Seagate hopes to make digital backup more popular than... well, flossing. |
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7 new smartphones for the smart set (19 September 12:43) |
| Once reserved for business executives, smartphones today are thinner, sleeker and available in colors like pink and aquamarine. |
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There's gold in an oil degree (18 September 08:26) |
| Willie Nelson doesn't croon about mamas making their babies grow up to be petroleum engineers. But perhaps he should. |
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Wall Street's troubles are yours, too (16 September 07:45) |
| In the end, the weight of the housing collapse was too much for the weaker players in an over-leveraged U.S. financial sector to bear. |
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MySpace sets music free (16 September 07:39) |
| Myspace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have had an uneasy relationship with the music industry. Nearly every music act has a MySpace page; some of them, like British pop diva Lily A... |
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What MySpace Music means for Amazon (16 September 05:23) |
| Jeff Bezos has done it again. The Amazon CEO has created an MP3-download store that has quickly become the second largest digital music outlet after Apple's iTunes. Now he's struck an exclus... |
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Made (again) in America (15 September 09:20) |
| Talk of a reverse migration of manufacturing from China to the U.S. has been buzzing across union halls and factory floors, corporate boardrooms and Wall Street. |
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Playing the blame game on oil (11 September 08:37) |
| Any study that relies on a chart of Google searches for the term "oil speculation" to make the case that futures traders are responsible for yo-yoing crude prices should be greeted with a he... |
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Reality TV's jackpot queen (11 September 03:21) |
| Have the rumors of network television's demise been greatly exaggerated? It was hard not to wonder whether years of obituaries had been premature as NBC racked up prodigious ratings last mon... |
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Warren Buffett's happy housing story (11 September 03:16) |
| Not every subprime lender is drowning in red ink. Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Clayton Homes, the nation's largest maker and financer of prefab and mobile homes, has been a bright light in ... |
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At Lehman, time for action is now (11 September 02:05) |
| Lehman Brothers continues to talk a good game, but the time for action is running short. |
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Yahoo traffic in a skid (11 September 02:05) |
| Yahoo's woes continue as August web search numbers show its traffic fell 10% from year-ago levels. |
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FedEx founder answers your questions (11 September 12:23) |
| Now's your chance to ask Fred Smith where his $38 billion express delivery business - and the economy - are heading. |
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Paulson's plan: So far, so good (11 September 12:21) |
| Wall Street likes Henry Paulson's plan to break the logjam in the mortgage markets. But the Treasury secretary and other policymakers still have much work to do to get the economy on a more ... |
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Apple bores Wall Street (10 September 08:21) |
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Russia's billionaire boys club (10 September 07:17) |
| A handy guide to the oligarchs riding high on Russia's resources boom. They've stormed London and French resorts. Could they be coming to a neighborhood near you? |
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Just how scary is Russia? (10 September 06:36) |
| The Cold War was supposed to be history, a topic today's twentysomethings know about only from the classroom, not from doing duck-and-cover drills in elementary school, as their parents did.... |
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Tech takes a tumble (10 September 06:19) |
| Tight-fisted consumers, budget-constrained IT departments and cash-hoarding phone companies are squeezing the tech sector, as an economic slowdown gains momentum in the United States and abr... |
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Shopping blues (10 September 05:02) |
| Another recession indicator: 15 major retailers have filed for bankruptcy this year, compared with seven in all of 2007. Here's a sample of recent victims. |
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