Europe may shake up Wall Street's quiet week
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:27:31 GMT
The debt crisis will again be top of investors' minds this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the domestic economic calendar. Read more...
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Time to cheer, and heckle, the Super Bowl ads
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:25:50 GMT
 Companies are spending millions of dollars for 30 seconds of your attention during the big game. So tell them what works and what doesn't as we live blog the ads throughout. Read more...
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Good job news met with optimism, skepticism
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:08:25 GMT
 Month by month, the U.S. job market is regaining its health. Read more...
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Celeb real estate: Own Johnny Cash's home
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:08:48 GMT
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'Chronicle' tops 'Woman in Black' at box office
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:21:01 GMT
 Teen boys with superpowers helped lift the movie box office to unexpected heights over Super Bowl weekend as the thriller "Chronicle" edged Daniel Radcliffe's haunted house movie "The Woman in Black." Read more...
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Companies with biggest bets on the Super Bowl
Posted Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:14:10 GMT
 A 30-second ad spot in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $3.5 million. But despite spending this much to reach such a massive audience at once, the results are rarely impressive. Read more...
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Recovery is gathering speed, jobs data show
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:57:26 GMT
 The economy is like a flywheel — it takes a lot to get it going. But once it starts moving, it can pick up speed pretty quickly. Friday’s jobs report shows it’s accelerating. Read more...
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This Bud's for their best Super Bowl ads of all time
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:02:15 GMT
 While other corporations wring their hands over the decision to pay an average of $3.5 million on a 30 second Super Bowl ad in a down economy, The King of Beers continues to spend. Read more...
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Jobless rate lowest in almost three years
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:51:20 GMT
The U.S. economy creates jobs at the fastest pace in 9 months and the jobless rate drops to an almost 3-year low, raising hopes that the labor market is picking up steam. Read more...
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Boeing checks 787s for carbon fiber delamination
Posted Sun, 5 Feb 2012 06:28:35 GMT
Boeing is inspecting its newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner for possible repairs to the carbon fiber composite structure of the plane. The issue involves a problem known as delamination. Read more...
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Do you think economy has turned the corner?
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:21:23 GMT
The government reported Friday that the U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January. Do you think the recovery is accelerating? Read more...
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Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:09:37 GMT
By msnbc.com staff and wire Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, has passed away in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, the company said Friday. Read more...
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N.Y. foreclosure lawsuit could slow home seizures
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:57:40 GMT
Bankers struggling to deal with faulty foreclosure paperwork just got hit with another major headache. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, recently tapped by President Obama to head a new task force to investigate mortgage fraud, sued three major U.S. Read more...
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Where the (good) jobs are coming from
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:05:09 GMT
 We already know that one key way to make more money and stay employed is to get more education. Read more...
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Companies paid even lower tax rate than Romney
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:28:05 GMT
According to new data from the Congressional Budget Office, U.S.-based companies paid only 12.1 percent in taxes on profits earned domestically. This is the lowest rate in four decades. Read more...
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Woman accused of selling fake Facebook stock
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:42:05 GMT
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant. Read more...
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Buzz: Paying your taxes, not paying your bills
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:46:21 GMT
 This week, we asked Life Inc. readers the hypothetical question: What would you give up in exchange for having someone else pay your bills for a month? The most popular answer: Television. “I gave up TV on my own a year ago. Read more...
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Facebook pics lead to worker's comp denial
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:53:51 GMT
Pictures of carousing can come back to haunt you, as an injured worker in Arkansas found after his former employer and insurance company unearthed pictures of him online. Read more...
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Service sector growth highest in nearly year
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:20:09 GMT
The pace of growth in the U.S. services sector unexpectedly accelerated in January to its highest level in nearly a year, according to an industry report released on Friday. Read more...
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Canada tops list of the most-educated countries
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:52:25 GMT
 In the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200 percent, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Read more...
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Where they touch down: Homes of the NFL stars
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:18:28 GMT
 NFL stars past and present are not exactly hurting when it comes to palatial digs big enough to host the neighbors Super Bowl Sunday. Which one of these guys would you like to score an invite from? Read more...
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Slideshow: What you can get for ... $400,000
Posted Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:16:28 GMT
 Each week, TODAY real estate expert Barbara Corcoran looks around the U.S. to see what home buyers can get for their money. Read more...
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