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Texas Instruments Reports

The semiconductor maker has seen its stock rise all year, but Jefferies says investors should sell.
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Boston Scientific’s Check Up

Wall Street will learn how new CEO Ray Elliott plans to shape the medical equipment maker.
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The former CBS News anchor, whose authoritative delivery of news events from the Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing made him ‘the most trusted man in America’, died on Friday at age 92
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Harley-Davidson and Cisco both let go of many hundreds.
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Microsoft is said to be in talks to acquire Yahoo! Help us figure out where.
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Banking Is Far From Fixed

Have government efforts to flog the financial industry damaged banks’ ability to do business? Second-quarter profit reports from Citi and BofA seem to say yes.
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Box Wines That Can Be A Hit

The quality can be surprisingly high, but not always. Here are the ones to look for.
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Four more banks bite the dust

State regulators shut down four banks Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/w5z1kjOE6po” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Halliburton’s Tough Quarter

The oilfield service sector’s link to integrated energy means limited growth until oil demand improves.
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Troubled CIT calls for $2bn infusion

CIT Group was in crisis talks on Friday night with a small group of its bondholders to and its advisors were still meeting with a small group of holders of their debt in an effort to cobble together a rescue financing for the embattled lenderthat would stave off a bankruptcy filing
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Johnson Controls Looks To Road Ahead

The company has been positioning itself to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities.
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Pennsylvania withholds July pay

Pennsylvania state workers’ paychecks are a little light these days.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/Z4IPNzn7yx0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Treasurys fall on housing data

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TV ads boost Obama health reforms

Cheerleading TV campaigns are being used to force a quick vote in Congress
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Stocks: Higher week, mixed day

IBM’s improved outlook lifted the Dow industrials Friday, but the broader market struggled as investors showed fatigue after a strong week on Wall Street.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_markets/~4/RWQX0QkIKfA” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Boston Scientific’s Check Up

Wall Street will learn how new CEO Ray Elliott plans to shape the medical equipment maker.
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Crocs lose their footing

In the last 5 years, Crocs have become ubiquitous, stepping onto the red carpet and the black top of every playground across the country. But that meteoric growth may just be what leads the company to its downfall.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/pdZTbAXeh2g” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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The popular online video site is finally on track to turn its first profit for parent Google, thanks mostly to two forms of online advertising that the group once largely scorned
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Texas Instruments Reports

The semiconductor maker has seen its stock rise all year, but Jefferies says investors should sell.
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China names new forex chief

Yi Gang, deputy governor of China’s central bank, was named head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which manages the country’s foreign reserves of more than $2000bn, while Hong Kong named a new central bank chief and Singapore’s central bank reported its first ever loss
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Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras deposed by a military coup three weeks ago, is about to make a second attempt to return to his country, according to Venezuela’s leader, Hugo Chávez
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A fractured front in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: The deadliest days yet for British troops have exposed deep rifts between the prime minister and the head of the army – and triggered fierce debate over the future of the war
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Two more banks bite the dust

State regulators shut down the tenth bank in Georgia and the first in South Dakota this year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said Friday.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/w5z1kjOE6po” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Judge dismisses Mark Cuban case

A federal judge has dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, CNN has confirmed.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/B5Z-wK2l5VE” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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RHJ Speeds Ahead To Bag Opel

Does RHJ International’s 275 million euro-bid give it a chance of snatching Opel from German government-preferred Magna?
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