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- Tight Races in Florida, Ohio
- Ballot Confusion Leads to Voter Ire
- The New Haven for Investors
- McMahon Loses Second Conn. Senate Bid
- J.P. Morgan, SEC Near Pact on Mortgage Bonds
- McGraw-Hill in Talks to Sell Unit to Apollo
- Winner Faces World of Challenges
- Not Everyone Is Happy to See Political Ads End
- Asian Shares Little Changed As U.S. Poll Results Roll In
- Novartis Heart Drug Shows Mixed Results
- Tea Party Battles for Corner of Ohio
- Goldman Partners Pocket $22 Million
- MetLife Nears Big D.C. Buy
- Madoff Recoveries Increase
- GOP Heads Toward House Win
- Google's Brin Calls U.S. a 'Bonfire of Partisanship'
- French Banks Try Some U.S. Medicine
- Outside Groups Spent Big, but Impact Isn't Clear-Cut
- What's Gone Wrong With H-P?
- Black Turnout Key for Obama in Virginia
| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 08:01 PM PST Obama and Romney were locked in a tight race in Florida, early election results showed. Obama was narrowly leading in Ohio, a state considered critical for both sides.
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| Ballot Confusion Leads to Voter Ire Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:25 PM PST Voters across the tri-state area struggled to cast ballots on Tuesday, with long lines in New York and confusion over an email voting system dashed together to help voters displaced by Sandy.     |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:30 PM PST Bonds of Exxon and Johnson & Johnson are trading with yields below those of comparable Treasurys, a sign that investors perceive them as a safer bet. It could ultimately mean some companies will borrow at lower rates than the U.S. government.     |
| McMahon Loses Second Conn. Senate Bid Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:48 PM PST Rep. Christopher Murphy was elected to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, handing a second-straight defeat to former wrestling executive Linda McMahon.     |
| J.P. Morgan, SEC Near Pact on Mortgage Bonds Posted: 06 Nov 2012 05:48 PM PST J.P. Morgan is close to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that would end one probe into how the company's Bear Stearns unit packaged and sold home loans to investors.     |
| McGraw-Hill in Talks to Sell Unit to Apollo Posted: 06 Nov 2012 05:57 PM PST McGraw-Hill is in exclusive discussions to sell its education unit to Apollo Global Management, and the two sides could reach an agreement within a few weeks, people familiar with the matter said.     |
| Winner Faces World of Challenges Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:20 PM PST The next White House occupant will face an array of world threats and decisions, from Mexico to the Mideast to China.
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| Not Everyone Is Happy to See Political Ads End Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:21 PM PST The monthslong barrage of political ads will come to a sudden halt Wednesday, and most people will be thrilled. But an elite cadre of voice-over actors will miss the income and excitement of the extra work.
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| Asian Shares Little Changed As U.S. Poll Results Roll In Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:17 PM PST Asian shares were little changed in cautious trading as investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. The Nikkei fell 0.1%.     |
| Novartis Heart Drug Shows Mixed Results Posted: 06 Nov 2012 05:02 PM PST Novartis showed mixed results from a late-stage study on an experimental treatment for acute heart failure, a widespread condition for which no specific treatments are available.     |
| Tea Party Battles for Corner of Ohio Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:18 PM PST Ohio's Portage County is expected to favor Obama. But if that happens, it won't be for lack of trying by the tea-party movement, which has taken up local issues important to both Democrats and Republicans.
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| Goldman Partners Pocket $22 Million Posted: 06 Nov 2012 04:54 PM PST Business is tough at Goldman Sachs, but the past is paying off: More than 30 executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, recently cashed in stock options awarded in the afterglow of the company's IPO in 1999.     |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 05:02 PM PST MetLife is close to an agreement to buy the Constitution Center in Washington for $750 million, according to people familiar with the transaction.     |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:03 PM PST More than half of investors' funds have been recovered nearly four years after Bernard Madoff's arrest for running the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.     |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:58 PM PST Democratic hopes of recapturing majority fade as results come in.
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| Google's Brin Calls U.S. a 'Bonfire of Partisanship' Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:42 PM PST Google co-founder Sergey Brin decried the fierce partisan battles in Washington and called on Tuesday's victors to withdraw from their political parties and to govern as independents.     |
| French Banks Try Some U.S. Medicine Posted: 06 Nov 2012 04:40 PM PST In a shift, French banks are embracing a practice popular in the U.S. What is raising eyebrows is that it involves the creation of financial instruments that led to huge losses not so long ago.     |
| Outside Groups Spent Big, but Impact Isn't Clear-Cut Posted: 06 Nov 2012 04:35 PM PST Interest groups on both sides of the political aisle spent a record sum on the election. Less certain is whether that spending made much of a difference.
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| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 05:59 PM PST Hewlet-Packard's stock is trading near 10-year lows and the tech giant is in the middle of yet another restructuring. A look at H-P's problems, and how CEO Meg Whitman plans to fix them.     |
| Black Turnout Key for Obama in Virginia Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:05 PM PST President Obama's strategy for competing in the crucial swing state of Virginia relied on voters like Cineta Harris, a 20-year-old African-American who voted in her first presidential election.
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