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NEW YORK (MCT) — A slump in financial stocks Monday sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close below 10,000 in three months as concerns about the global economy and U.S. interest-rate policy simmered. The blue-chip measure fell 103.84 points, or 1 percent, to 9908.39, near its intraday low in a session that saw selling accelerate into the closing bell. The Dow was led lower by a 3 ...
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Greece’s government announced an overhaul of the tax system, including higher levies on dividends, and reiterated a pledge to freeze wages of public workers to rein in the European Union’s biggest budget deficit.
McCluer North point guard Ollie Roundtree was feeding more guys than a McDonald's fry cook through the first 11 games of the season.
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says the Reserve could raise interest rates in future to stop rising house prices developing into a boom and bust.
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican development bank Nacional Financiera SNC plans to auction guarantees this year for as much as 36 billion pesos ($2.8 billion) in loans that commercial banks will give small and medium-sized businesses.
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses. Prices are as of 1:45 p.m. in New York.
AUSTIN, Texas -- As college basketball teams go these days, the top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks are about as dominant as they come. They defend well, rebound and can get scoring from all five positions on the floor.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - An unexpected source of offense helped Missouri put away Nebraska.
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed back above 10,000 on hope that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. The Dow was up more than 200 points Tuesday after closing below 10,000 on Monday for the first time in three months.
Sector left dangerously dependent on oil, tobacco and drugs firms as banks slump British companies paid out £10bn less in dividends in 2009 compared with the previous year leaving pension and other investment funds dangerously dependent on carbon-heavy oil groups, BP and Shell, for a quarter of all such income, new research shows. A total of £57bn was handed out to shareholders last year, 15 ...
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