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Guantánamo Uighurs sent to Palau

The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau
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Wall Street’s broken rally

Last week’s big selloff did more than just rattle investors: it put an end to a seven-month win streak that had pushed the SP 500 more than 60% above the March lows.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/dt5AU46yAJc” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failedto persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks with Israel, a spokesman for Mr Abbas said, citing Jewish settlements as a stumbling block
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s election rival Abdullah Abdullah will announce whether he will take part in next week’s disputed run-off vote, his campaign said after speculation mounted he will pull out.
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New Chinese IT Tycoons In The Making

The first trading day of China’s Nasdaq equivalent gave rise to new tech tycoons.
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Brazil, gold and oil are just a few of the beneficiaries of a weaker dollar, not to mention U.S. stocks.
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As Congress starts debating how to deal with financial firms deemed “too big too fail,” some lawmakers and advocates are worried about giving the executive branch expansive new powers over the financial sector.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/NgpowxRLxXk” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Amgen’s Anemic Results

The company’s best-selling Aranesp drug doubles the risk that kidney patients will suffer a stroke.
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The Big Deal: Trend Micro’s Eva Chen

How her father’s death convinced her to step to the ”front lines.”
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9 banks in major holding company fail

Nine subsidiaries of FBOP Corp., a multistate holding company that included California National Bank of Los Angeles, succumbed Friday to the nationwide banking crisis, bringing to 115 the number of banks closed by regulators so far this year.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/9_4RP4O3u5w” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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US regulators failed to catch Bernard Madoff’s huge fraud in 2006 because they asked the wrong questions and did not perform ‘accounting 101’, the financier told the authorities earlier this year
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The German authorities’ warrant for Mr Kiener’s arrest, seen by the Financial Times, alleges that he defrauded several banks using offshore entities and circular investments that, unknown to the banks, he controlled or had links to
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The U.S. Must Develop Its Resources

Only Congress stands in the way of the abundant copper, gold and silver in the U.S.
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Brazil, gold and oil are just a few of the beneficiaries of a weaker dollar, not to mention U.S. stocks.
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CIT creditors back protection plan

Creditors of CIT voted overwhelming to support a prepackaged bankruptcy protection filing, ending months of uncertainty for the troubled US commercial lender
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Wall St falls sharply on mixed data

US stocks fell sharply as mixed economic numbers dented optimism, with the market poised for a second successive week of losses
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Buy Only Defensive REITs

After an amazing comeback, real estate stocks are just about fairly priced. For now.
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The Bond Rush Continues

Money is filling up fixed-income coffers, and Icahn’s in CIT’s catbird seat.
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Aides close to the former UK prime minister said he was “relaxed” and British officials still hope he can win through when Europe has a closer look at the alternatives
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Stocks take a big slide

Stocks tumbled Friday, more than erasing the previous session’s gains, as investors dumped a variety of shares at the end of a rough week and choppy month on Wall Street.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_markets/~4/WWChUegtYCA” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Most people assume the Packard Plant in Detroit is vacant. It’s an industrial ruin where the last car was manufactured 53 years ago.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/oKNPt270ka0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Dollar firms as stocks tumble

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Carl Icahn lends CIT a hand

Small business lender CIT Group got a hand Friday from a most unlikely source: a billionaire activist investor who has spent the past month trying to foil the company’s restructuring plans.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/jcLckAj_OS0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Europe Can’t Commit

The EU says that developing world needs $150 billion a year to cut carbon, but won’t say how much it’ll give.
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Oil slides on weak consumer data

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