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Loose liquidity, macroeconomic hopes fuel shares.
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Is There Room For Another Sports Site?

Steve Nash and his partners launch a Web business offering all things sports. Too late?
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The Bank That Bailed Out Itself

Lessons from the survival of CIT Group.
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Best Places To Begin A Career

First-time job seekers would be wise to consider these cities.
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Homebuilders: Just A Little Patience

The reversal of fortunes for home builders is inevitable but difficult to time. Patient investors buying now will earn nice profits.
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Up to 2,000 traders and managers in the UK could face extra checks and even interviews by the financial regulator to ensure they are fit and proper to do their job.
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Blank Cuban ticker sends signal

A series of initiatives by the Obama administration as it seeks to engage Cuba and to end 50 years of enmity include silencing a propaganda engine
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Democrats divided over healthcare bill

Divisions among US Democrats over healthcare widened on Sunday, as the party scrambled to come to terms with growing uncertainty over President Barack Obama’s chief domestic priority after a week of setbacks
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that lessons learned from the recession and the financial crisis will help make the economy stronger than it was before the crisis.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/UMfktGigzxI” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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The US government is poised to take a 34 per cent stake in Citigroup, increasing both its exposure to and influence over, the troubled financial group following the completion of a long-awaited $58bn share offering
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Apple joins forces with record labels

Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a new interactive booklet, sleeve notes and other interactive features with music downloads, in a move it hopes will change buying trends on its online iTunes store
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Rexam weighs up cash call

Packaging and can group is considering raising several hundred million pounds of equity from shareholders to avoid the risk of its credit rating’s being cut to junk status
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Ministers defended themselves against claims of a tardy response to swine flu, disputing the suggestions the telephone swine flu helpline had been set up too late
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Calls by a US senator to ban “flash” orders – trades made at lightning speeds on electronic systems – have met resistance from a leading market provider
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Emerging markets rush to issue debt

Bond issuance has risen to record levels as investors hungry for greater risk switch to the securities because of attractive yields
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Flu response had to wait, says minister

Ministers defended themselves against claims of a tardy response to swine flu, disputing the suggestions the telephone swine flu helpline had been set up too late
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Calpers to buy back shopping centres

Calpers, the US’s biggest pension fund, which this week unveiled the steepest drop in its assets in its 80-year history, has agreed to buy back a portfolio of 86 US shopping centres for $1.73bn, about $1bn less than it sold it for four years ago
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Zelaya offered Honduras return

The armed forces showed the first sign of compromise following the recent military coup by issuing a statement indicating that they would accept the return of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president
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European lenders are bracing themselves for a wave of defaults as the credit card crisis that caused billions of dollars in losses in US banks spreads across the Atlantic
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Courts are expected to approve Ericsson’s $1.1bn bid for most of the core wireless assets of Nortel Networks after outbidding Nokia and MatlinPatterson in a 12-hour auction
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Gasoline prices fell more than 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, despite a rise in crude oil prices, according to a survey published Sunday.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/oJ_go284Dck” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Pakistan hailed the capture of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, a radical cleric who led the Islamist militants in the strife-torn northern Swat valley – the most high-profile arrest of the three-month army campaign there
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As the US and China stage the first high-level dialogue talks of the Obama administration, Chinese analysts insist that the repegging of the renminbi to the dollar is a temporary measure
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The most important release this week will be US GDP growth for the second quarter, released on Friday, which will be crucial in either boosting or dashing investors’ hopes for a speedy recovery
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Mitchell meets Assad in Damascus

Amid a flurry of American US diplomatic activity, George Mitchell, US President Barack Obama’s envoy to in the Middle East, on Sunday has held his second meeting in as many months with Bashar Assad, president of the Syriatheir n leaderAmerican US president of their
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