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A number of economic reports to be released this week are likely to show that the fragile economic recovery is slowly gaining steam, while the Fed...
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Warren Buffett isn't the only one placing huge monetary bets on the future of American energy use. "Exxon Mobil Corp., the biggest...
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XTO Energy is the second Fort Worth, Tex.-based company involved in a huge takeover deal in less than two months. ExxonMobil...
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People, enough with the auto-DMs, already! My team handles Twitter for some of our clients, and I’ve been watching the...
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Accenture and Tiger Woods are done, according to reports that have surfaced over the weekend. Accenture is the former consulting arm of...
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An iPhone App is now available for Amazon.com's Kindle electronic reader in more than 60 countries, Amazon announced today in a news...
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Fairfield Residential LLC, among the largest private, multifamily commercial real estate operating companies in the U.S., has filed a voluntary petition in United States Bankruptcy...
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Make sure your gold does not have antique value before sending it off in a prepaid envelope. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams) As the...
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I find it more than a little ironic that a company that was a spin-off from Arthur Anderson, the accounting firm that helped Enron pull off one of the biggest financial frauds in...
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“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”—Chinese Proverb So many times, people embark on social media marketing with the idealist...
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Hedge funds see $150 billion flow in through Sept.
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Hedge funds saw more than $150 billion flow in from investors during the year's first nine months, with clients increasingly demanding funds provide more information about their investments, Barclays Capital said Monday.