Category Archives: Markets

Long-term jobless face deep cuts in benefits

By doris | Published: December 12, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Time is running out for Congress to renew extended unemployment benefits for millions of American workers out of a job. If the latest GOP proposal is enacted, time will also run out a lot sooner for the checks workers collect for extended jobless insurance benefits. Workers in states with the worst [...]

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Loretta Lynn out of hospital, recovering at home

By doris | Published: October 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In the government’s latest attempt to address the ailing housing market, President Obama will announce changes to a federal program Monday that will make it easier for struggling homeowners to refinance to today’s near-record low rates. Under the new program, homeowners who owe more on their homes [...]

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Small investors fleeing stock market

By doris | Published: August 18, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com If the recent wild leaps and plunges in financial markets have prompted you to cash out your stocks, you’re not alone. Individual investors are bolting for the exits. Thursday’s big sell-off, which saw the Dow Jones industrial average move by triple digits for the ninth time this month, was the latest [...]

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Sanford Joint Offers Up Unique, Gut Busting Burgers

By doris | Published: August 4, 2011

Full Story at WMTW.com Burger Joint serves nearly two-dozen different kind of burgers, including a peanut butter and jelly burger and a burger served on a glazed donut. The mother and son who’ve teamed up to create these concoctions said they were inspired by the many cable television shows featuring off-the-wall food. “Because a lot [...]

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Easy vegetables to grow

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com Planting a garden doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. But the fear of failure keeps many a gardener-wannabe from spending time and energy on planting backyard crops. Knowing the easy vegetables to grow for your region — in addition to when and where to plant them — is the best [...]

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Oil sinks below $100

By doris | Published: May 5, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Oil prices plunged more than 8% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude to its biggest one-day drop since April 2009. The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery settled down $9.44, or 8.6%, to $99.80 a barrel. That’s its lowest level since [...]

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Tax the rich! OK, but then what, Mr. President?

By doris | Published: April 12, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — For years, President Obama has been clear about his preferred tax policy: Tax the rich more and protect households that make less than $250,000 from higher taxes. It’s not clear what he’ll say about taxes on Wednesday when he lays out his ideas for how to tackle [...]

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From inside Japan’s evacuation zone: ‘It’s eerie here’

By doris | Published: April 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MINAMI SOMA, Japan — The Odaka neighborhood seems frozen in time since it was abandoned after the tsunami nearly a month ago: Doors were left hanging open and bicycles were abandoned. A lone taxi sits in front of the train station. Mud-caked dogs roam empty streets, their barking and the cawing [...]

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Egg donors offered up to $50,000

By doris | Published: March 27, 2010

Are they trying to get perfect people for the world to be perfect? That is a possible, and they are making a lot of money and getting rich off of people who just want a baby of there own.Full Story at msnbc.com Fertility companies are paying egg donors high fees that often exceed guidelines, especially [...]

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Goodbye iPod, hello iPhone

By doris | Published: August 6, 2009

Full Story at BrainstormTech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com Apple passed an important milestone last quarter that nobody on Wall Street seems to have noticed: the iPod, once Apple’s (AAPL) No. 1 source of revenue, fell into third place after the Mac (No. 1) and the iPhone (No. 2). Think of Apple’s business model — as Steve Jobs often does [...]

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Google vs. Microsoft: What you need to know

By doris | Published: July 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators [...]

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Billy Mays: An industry loses its voice

By doris | Published: June 30, 2009

Full Story At money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fans, friends and colleagues of Billy Mays are still absorbing the news of the ebullient TV salesman’s untimely death. Meanwhile, those in the infomercial field are left wondering: What will the industry do now that its most recognizable front man is gone? Mays, who died on Sunday [...]

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Long-sought food labeling law takes effect today

By doris | Published: March 17, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Shoppers will have more information about where their food comes from under a new policy starting today. Labels on most fresh meats, along with some fruits, vegetables and other foods, will now list where the food originated. In the case of meats, some labels will list where the animal [...]

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World’s richest countries pledge to fix economy

By doris | Published: February 16, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com The Group of Seven finance ministers also urged countries not to close their markets to goods and services from abroad. “An open system of global trade and investment is indispensable for global prosperity,” they said in a statement at the end of their meeting Saturday. “Protectionist measures … would only exacerbate [...]

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