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Long-term mortgage rates rose for the first time in three weeks, with a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage moving above 5 percent.
Freddie Mac’s weekly rate report says […]
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech Wednesday that "1 in 10 Americans still cannot find work." But […]
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Starbucks Corp. said it will close a Seattle call center later this year and move the operations to Albuquerque, N.M., affecting 130 people.
The Seattle coffee […]
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U.S. credit card companies are targeting affluent consumers in a resurgence of marketing campaigns, as they recover from massive defaults by subprime borrowers in […]
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Hong Kong’s personal bankruptcy filings fell in October to a one-year low as the city emerges from its worst slump since the 1997-98 Asian […]
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Business activity in the U.S. Midwest failed to return to growth in September as expected, and instead got slammed by a decline in production […]
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Johnson & Johnson has cut the amount it will pay for its 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan Corp Plc by $115 million […]
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Half of the Federal Reserve’s 12 districts saw evidence the U.S. economy had improved by the end of August, although labor markets remained weak […]
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All you have to do to feel the outrage over the continuing flow of bonuses on Wall Street is to take a walk down […]
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Bonuses paid to executives at nine banks that received U.S. government bailout money in 2008 were greater than net income at some of the […]
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