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Your Money: Food-Shopping Tips Direct From the Store Manager
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:48am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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As food costs soar, a high-quality grocer is experimenting with ways to save money while not sacrificing taste.
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Travelers Facing Deep Flight Cuts by Summer’s End
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:29am EDT by By MICHELINE MAYNARD
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Analysts say cuts by the airlines will reduce U.S. flights this year by almost 10 percent, with deeper cuts in store for 2009.
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Garden Is a Seedbed for Green Cosmetics
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:13am EDT by By MARK LANDLER
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The maker of the cosmetics brand Dr. Hauschka is one of dozens of German companies benefiting from a growing global appetite for environmentally friendly products.
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Cost of Living: Economy Can Wait; Stimulate Your Savings
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By M. P. DUNLEAVEY
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As millions are receiving stimulus checks in the mail, it pays to ask oneself whether it ought to be spent the way Congress intended it, or whether it should be saved.
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What's Offline: Hoping the Upswing Is Nigh
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By PAUL B. BROWN
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All the bad news about the economy is actually good news, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance says as part of a package of articles highlighted on its cover.
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What's Online: Why Some Succeed Wildly
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By DAN MITCHELL
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A forthcoming book that examines how mega-success is achieved is already receiving much attention on the Web.
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Executive Pursuits: Drag, Water, Repeat: Caring for Major League Dirt
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By HARRY HURT III
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The ostensibly blue-collar pursuit of groundskeeping takes on much higher importance when it is applied to tending the field at Shea Stadium.
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3 Nominees Approved by Senate to Fill Openings on S.E.C.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:56am EDT by By DOW JONES
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The Senate has cleared three nominees to the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreeing by unanimous consent to confirm Luis A. Aguilar, Elisse B. Walter and Troy A. Paredes.
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Court Backs Cable Competition
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:56am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to set rules meant to make it easier for new cable television competitors to gain local franchises.
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Anheuser-Busch Begins Defense of InBev Bid
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:56am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Anheuser-Busch detailed its plan to make the company more valuable than the offer of $65 a share that it rejected from InBev, and gave 2008 and 2009 profit guidance above expectations.
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In Bear Bailout, Fed Says It Tried to Avert Contagion
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:56am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Federal Reserve released documents Friday providing insights into its private deliberations of the controversial decisions that led to the bailout of Bear Stearns.
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A New Fed Board Member
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:55am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Senate confirmed Elizabeth A. Duke on Friday as a member of the Federal Reserve.
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Stimulus Payments Lift Consumer Spending
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:55am EDT by By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
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Consumer spending increased 0.4 percent last month, double the gain in April, after adjusting for inflation, after about $50 billion in tax rebates was distributed in April.
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Charts: Sitting on the Porch, Leaving the Car in the Garage
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:52am EDT by By FLOYD NORRIS
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Consumer confidence data shows that pessimism about the economy is at historic highs, and that plans to take vacations or make major purchases are at some of the lowest levels ever recorded.
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Class-Action Lawyer Gets 5 Years in Bribery Case
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:51am EDT by By ABHA BHATTARAI
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Richard F. Scruggs, whose battle against the tobacco industry made him one of the country’s best-known plaintiff’s lawyers, received five years for conspiracy to bribe a judge.
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Business Briefing | Wall Street: Fitch Weighs Lower Rating for Wachovia
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:51am EDT by By BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Fitch Ratings may lower the credit ratings of Wachovia, the bank that ousted its chief executive after greater-than-expected mortgage losses.
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Business Briefing | Wall Street: Goldman Sachs Sees More Pain for Home Builders
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:51am EDT by By BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Higher refinancing costs may leave American home builders, including D. R. Horton and Lennar, the two largest, with negative cash flow in 2009.
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Business Briefing | Executives: Gazprom Investors Elect an Ex-Prime Minister
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:50am EDT by By ANDREW E. KRAMER
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The revolving door between politics and business in Russia spun on Friday as Gazprom shareholders elected former prime minister Viktor A. Zubkov as chairman of the board.
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Business Briefing | Deals: Virgin Mobile Agrees to Buy Helio
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:50am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Helio, a struggling cellphone carrier, was founded to bring the advanced features of South Korean phones to the American market.
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Business Briefing | Deals: Oil Driller Spurns a Takeover Offer for a Third Time
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:49am EDT by By REUTERS
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The oil driller Grey Wolf reject the third offer from Precision Drilling Trust, saying the offer was still undervalued.
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Business Briefing | Legal Matters: Payless Shoesource Parent Settles Trademark Lawsuit
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:49am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Collective Brands said Friday it had agreed to pay a footwear rival, K-Swiss, $30 million to settle litigation claiming trademark infringement.
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Saturday Interview: China Is Just One Market for Travel Expansion
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By JANE L. LEVERE
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Jane Jie Sun is chief financial officer of Ctrip.com, a Shanghai-based online travel agency traded on the Nasdaq, which has introduced an English-language Web site this year.
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Battered by Oil, Dow Touches Bear Territory
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
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The Dow briefly fell 20 percent below its October peak, the figure that is regarded as the start of a bear market.
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Venture Investors Wrap Up an Unusually Bleak Quarter
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:43am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Not a single company backed by venture capitalists has gone public this quarter, a result of the weaknesses in the financial markets.
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Talking Business: Easy Target, but Not the Right One
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:41am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The Congressional hearings this week over the impact of speculators on the price of oil made for wonderful theater — but they had nothing to do with oil.
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Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:26am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Fox has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.
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Spate of Changes in Airline Industry Heightens the Need to Plan Ahead
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:58am EDT by By MICHELLE HIGGINS
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Some tips to help navigate the less-crowded skies.
