Archive for October, 2009
The hard-hit city of Pontiac, Mich., is auctioning off the Silverdome, a stadium of more than 80,000 seats that once played host to the Super Bowl.
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General Motors is losing its top U.S. sales executive, a key player in the automaker's reorganization, to a job in another industry, CEO Fritz Henderson announced Wednesday.
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Discount retailer Target is offering up to half off of popular toys like Barbie and Fisher Price to lure bargain hunters this holiday season, said a company statement released Wednesday.
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It's one of the truths of mutual fund investing: You buy the manager as much as the prospectus. So it pays to have someone you trust.
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Gold continued to push higher into record territory Wednesday amid concerns about a weak dollar, inflation and technical-based buying by large investment funds.
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Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that the tech firm has ramped up hiring, citing an end to the advertising slump.
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A new battle is brewing in Congress, riding the same populist wave that pitted banks against consumers on credit card fees earlier this year.
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. posted a surprise profit and revenue that beat estimates for the third quarter on Wednesday.
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AP - Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.
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