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- Deadline Looms for Long-Term Unemployed
- Supply Fears Boost Cocoa Prices
- Early Holiday Sales Pay Off, for Now
- Small Banks Are Paying Up for Lenders
- Flowers Foods Sizes Up Hostess
- Asian Shares Mixed
- Pilfered Wi-Fi Is No Shield From Police
- Natural-Gas Boom's Flip Side
- Car Show Is Charged Up
- German Car Makers Look Beyond Europe
- U.K. Newspapers Sweat Inquiry's Findings
- Hollywood Enjoys a Robust Holiday
- Treasurys Face Unfamiliar Risk
- Dollar Will Trade on More Than Fiscal Talks
- BP Seeks Deal to Set Russia Gas For Britain
- U.S. IPO Market Risks a Zero in December
- Auction Houses Go Head-to-Head in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong OK's China International Marine Listing
- 'Fiscal Cliff' Debate Hits Airwaves
| Deadline Looms for Long-Term Unemployed Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:24 PM PST More than 40% of the nearly five million Americans who receive unemployment insurance are set to lose those benefits if federal programs expire as scheduled at year-end.
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| Supply Fears Boost Cocoa Prices Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:18 PM PST Cocoa futures jumped 4.9% last week—touching a one-month high—due to fears of shrinking supplies of the main ingredient for chocolate.     |
| Early Holiday Sales Pay Off, for Now Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:43 PM PST Strong weekend traffic and an online boom kicked off the holiday shopping season, but worries remain about whether retailers' new tactics are simply shifting spending to different days and sales outlets.
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| Small Banks Are Paying Up for Lenders Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST Some of the banking industry's biggest pay raises are being handed out far from Wall Street, in towns and cities across the nation where the old-fashioned commercial banker is in hot demand.     |
| Flowers Foods Sizes Up Hostess Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:48 PM PST Flowers Foods, maker of Tastykake and Nature's Own baked goods, is considered a likely bidder for some of the assets owned by Hostess, which could help it expand geographically.     |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:40 PM PST Asian markets were mixed Monday in cautious trading before another meeting of euro-zone finance ministers. The Hang Seng was flat.     |
| Pilfered Wi-Fi Is No Shield From Police Posted: 25 Nov 2012 05:29 PM PST A federal court ruled that police don't need search warrants to use software to locate people who piggyback on their neighbors' Wi-Fi networks.     |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST BUCKHANNON, W.Va.— The boom in U.S. natural-gas production has driven economic growth across much of the country, but not everyone is a winner, including this rural town in Appalachia, rich in natural gas and coal.     |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2012 05:33 PM PST Chevrolet and Fiat will unveil electric vehicles at the Los Angeles auto show this week, an effort to comply with California requirements that car makers sell vehicles with no tailpipe emissions.     |
| German Car Makers Look Beyond Europe Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:39 PM PST Volkswagen's plan to invest $65 billion in its global operations over the next three years marks the latest push by Germany's auto industry to limit its exposure to crisis-stricken Europe.     |
| U.K. Newspapers Sweat Inquiry's Findings Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:57 PM PST The British newspaper industry is on tenterhooks ahead of a British judge's report on whether and how the country's print press should be reined in to prevent invasions of privacy.
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| Hollywood Enjoys a Robust Holiday Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:40 PM PST "The Twilight Saga" again took the top spot at the box office. "Skyfall," "Lincoln" and "The Guardians" also drew moviegoers, boosting the Thanksgiving-weekend grosses to their highest-ever totals.
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| Treasurys Face Unfamiliar Risk Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:40 AM PST Treasury bulls are staring at the prospect of the U.S. Federal Reserve opting to hold back on committing to buying more government debt in 2013.     |
| Dollar Will Trade on More Than Fiscal Talks Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:48 AM PST Negotiations on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff in the U.S. will be on the minds of currency investors, but array of reports on housing and consumer spending will also command attention.     |
| BP Seeks Deal to Set Russia Gas For Britain Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:01 PM PST BP is in early talks with the OAO Gazprom-led Nord Stream pipeline consortium over an extension of the link to carry gas straight into the U.K.     |
| U.S. IPO Market Risks a Zero in December Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:06 AM PST If issuers don't get moving, December is likely to be an uncharacteristically quiet month for IPOs. Only once since 1993 have there been no IPOs in the last month of the year.     |
| Auction Houses Go Head-to-Head in Hong Kong Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:39 PM PST The world's No. 1 and No. 3 art-auction houses held competing Hong Kong sales this weekend, and found strong interest for top lots as Chinese collectors continued to buy expensive paintings and antiques.
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| Hong Kong OK's China International Marine Listing Posted: 25 Nov 2012 03:52 AM PST China International Marine Containers has been approved to list shares in Hong Kong, as the world's largest shipping container maker shifts its listing from Shenzhen's struggling market for foreign-currency denominated stock.     |
| 'Fiscal Cliff' Debate Hits Airwaves Posted: 24 Nov 2012 05:45 AM PST Interest groups are launching ad campaigns to stir up Americans about the fiscal cliff, the tax increases and spending cuts set to start in January.     |
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