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In the category of "okay, now we get it," the chief executives of Detroit's Big Three are driving to Washington to ask Congress for money, instead of taking private jets like they did last time. Which turned out to be a public relations disaster. Ford...(more)
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The chief executives of Detroit’s Big Three, who took a drubbing for flying on private jets to Washington last month for a Congressional hearing, will be driving to get to the capital this time.
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Tenacious thrift, once an admirable quality in China, has become a liability as the nation’s export-driven economy slows.
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The UK job market weakens as permanent placements decline at record levels, a new survey suggests.
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. will urge China to maintain a strong currency during high-level talks this week as worries grow in the United States that Beijing may be exacerbating the global slowdown by deflating the value of the yuan to spur its own...(more)
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It wasn't Bleak Friday after all. The Friday after Thanksgiving, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, saw throngs of shoppers and increased sales from last year, both nationally and locally, according to research firms, and reports from Bay...
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Airlines are slashing prices on some flights, hoping to lure some travelers this holiday season and into the New Year. But like all things with airlines, the situation is changing rapidly. For instance, the clock is ticking on JetBlue Airways' four-day online...
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In the first such step by a major medical center, the clinic says it has begun publicly disclosing the business relationships its staff has with drug makers.
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The company said it expected its fourth-quarter profit to be at the low end of its previous guidance and warned that charges were likely to top $1 billion after taxes.
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A bipartisan group of legislators and advocates for the military and Americans overseas are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to expand the search for a new director for the troubled Pentagon office that helps those citizens vote by absentee ballot. "The status quo is simply...(more)
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The Federal Housing Administration's fund to cover losses on the mortgages it insures is shrinking, but remains above the point where taxpayers would need to kick in money to cover defaults, according to an independent audit of the agency's financial soundness. Since its creation in...(more)
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For the third time this year, fixed interest rates have fallen below 6 percent, boosting business for lenders at the start of the typically slow holiday period.
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