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China’s lending boom may erode the quality of bank balance sheets as a jump in lending was “unavoidably” linked to an easing of credit […]

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Cadbury Plc would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co rather than Kraft Foods Inc, the British company’s chairman Roger Carr told […]

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China hopes that the United States will keep its deficit to an appropriate size to ensure basic stability in the U.S. dollar exchange rate, […]

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Stocks slumped Friday, at the end of an upbeat week on Wall Street, as a sour response to General Electric and Bank of America’s […]

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Congress is resurfacing its outrage over AIG’s bonuses after a report detailed the vast scope and scale of the troubled insurer’s executive compensation plan.
Neil […]

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The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance fell last week to the lowest level since January, according to a government report issued Thursday.
There […]

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Stocks seesawed Wednesday, with blue chips weaker and techs a bit higher as a two-day advance petered out amid a mixed dollar, lower oil […]

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Drenched in sweat, Jonathan Rojewski stood in the middle of the agave field in Tequila, Mexico — his skin burned from hours in the […]

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After a year-long spending freeze, the CEO of Best Buy says Americans are loosening their purse strings again — but he’s not betting that […]

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Planning for retirement has never been as complicated — or as important — as it is now.
Last year’s financial meltdown was the second […]

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