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56 min ago | Click2Houston

Hiring picks up, jobless rate drops to 8.3%

American employers substantially stepped up their hiring in January, bringing the unemployment rate down for the fifth month in a row.

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5 hrs ago | Rome News

Stocks jump on strong jobs report for January

A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years propelled stocks higher Friday.

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9 hrs ago | The Oregonian

Unemployment rate reaches three-year low

Trader John Panin, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

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12 hrs ago | Click2Houston

Stocks: Investors await key jobs report

S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq futures were 0.2% higher ahead of the opening bell Thursday morning.

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15 hrs ago | Click Orlando

Senate passes insider-trading bill

Aiming to restore voters' faith in Congress, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday that makes clear it's illegal for members of Congress, their staffs and many executive-branch employees to trade stocks and other securities based on inside information learned on the job.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, Mitch McConnell, State of the Union, Eric Cantor, US House of Representatives

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Boston.com

3 investments for an era of low interest rates

The Federal Reserve is making it increasingly hard for investors to earn anything, unless they're willing to accept plenty of risk.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mutual Funds

York Dispatch

For Facebook, exchange choice is a matter of image

When Facebook goes public in a few months, will its stock appear on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? Depends what its billionaire founder prefers for a backdrop - a trading floor on Wall Street or towering video screens in Times Square.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Day Trading, Personal Finance

WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

Senate Passes Insider Trading Bill

A bill that clarifies the illegality of insider trading of stocks and other securities by members of Congress and their staff members won approval Thursday from the U.S. Senate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama

Toronto News.Net

Daycare worker, teenagers among 60 arrested in Ontario child porn bust

A police officer walks past a projection of the Ontario Police services that participated in a province-wide investigation targeting child pornography offenders following a media conference in Vaughan, Ontario on Thursday, February 2, 2012.

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CBS News

Facebook love spreads to other tech stocks

Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted shares of freshly minted public Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook

Click Orlando

Stocks drift as Bernanke speaks

U.S. stocks were mixed Thursday as investors digest comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and keep a wary eye on Greece's debt talks.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Facebook, Social Software

Rome News

US stocks flat after mixed economic data

U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday, as a mixed bag of retail sales reports and unemployment claims data failed to push stocks in either direction.

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Related Topix: Costco Wholesale, Retail

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Credit Suisse exec charged in NY mortgage probe

The desire to fatten year-end bonuses motivated a Credit Suisse executive and two of his employees to conspire to hide the deteriorating condition of the U.S. housing market in 2007 to keep the value of bonds based on subprime mortgages artificially high, authorities said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Prison, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

Canadian Business Magazine

Global stocks extend 2-day rally as signs of improving U.S economy bolster trader optimism

A masked man is reflected on an electronic stock board at a securities firm in central Tokyo, Monday, Jan.

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Ledger-Enquirer.com

Deutsche Bank results hit by eurzone debt crisis

The eurozone debt crisis took its toll on Germany's Deutsche Bank and its investment banking businesses, sending fourth-quarter net profits down 69 percent to euro186 million .

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Related Topix: Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services, Banking

Sunherald.com

Romney stock trades clash with divestment pledge

During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

WSTC-AM Norwalk

Key moves for surviving low interest rates

The Federal Reserve said last week that it would keep its benchmark rate at record lows for at least another three years.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Day Trading

Wed Feb 01, 2012

SavannahNow

Stocks rise on manufacturing data

Stocks climbed Wednesday after strong manufacturing data and encouraging reports about the Greek debt crisis.

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Daily Reporter

Dollar falls on strong US manufacturing data

The dollar fell against the euro and other major currencies Wednesday on stronger manufacturing data from the U.S. and China.

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Kennebec Journal

Manufacturing expands at fastest pace since June

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Wednesday that its manufacturing index rose last month to 54.1 from 53.1 in December.

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