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Congress digs into Madoff scandal today -
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Congress gets its first crack today at the $50 billion financial fraud involving Wall Street investing legend Bernard Madoff, with Democrats vowing to use the scandal to spur an overhaul of the government's financial ...
Bernard Madoff
Wall Street
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Markets headed for shaky start -
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Wall Street headed for a shaky start on the first day of the first full week of the new year Monday in the face of reports about auto sales and construction spending that were expected to ...
Auto Sales - Construction Spending - Wall Street
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Obama urges stimulus bill passage -
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President-elect Barack Obama said Saturday that the nation finds itself at one of its "moments of trial" because of the economy and called for Congress to pass a massive public spending bill to create jobs, saying it would pull the ...
Barack Obama
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Ukraine siphons Russian gas shipment -
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Ukraine has siphoned some of Russia's natural gas shipments to the Balkans, the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said late Friday -- a day after it cut supplies to Ukraine in a contract dispute.
Gazprom
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Markets kick off 2009 with rally -
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Wall Street partied on the first trading day of the new year Friday, staging a rally that pushed the Dow above 9,000 and ignored a private trade group report showing that manufacturing nationwide hit its lowest point in more than 28 ...
Wall Street
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Light Wall Street trading expected -
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Wall Street largely could be on hold Friday, with light trading expected and investors not set to begin in earnest until the first full week of the year begins Monday.
Wall Street
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Pair of banking deals completed -
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ATLANTA | Two major acquisitions in the banking sector have been completed after the biggest financial crisis to hit the United States since the 1930s, capping a year in which Wall Street stocks were hammered, home foreclosure rates ...
Wall Street
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Time Warner, Viacom avoid cable blackout -
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LOS ANGELES | Millions of Time Warner Cable customers won't lose their access to MTV and 18 other channels after the cable giant reached an agreement Thursday with media conglomerate Viacom Inc.
Time Warner
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Continuing jobless claims on the rise -
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The number of laid-off workers continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged again, as finding new jobs becomes even more difficult amid a deepening recession.
Jobless - Recession
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Investors regroup after Wall Street rout -
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Wall Street stocks had their worst year since the Great Depression in 2008, with 34 percent to 41 percent losses in major indexes that cut deeply into the wealth and retirement security of Americans.
Wall Street
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