Stocks Edge Higher
(New York, NY) -- The major stock averages edged slightly higher Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of a severe downturn on Wall Street. Financial shares and tech stocks fared well, while investors dumped positions in natural resources companies ...Read More
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Senate Pushes Unemployment Benefits Extension
(Washington, DC) -- A bill providing another extension of unemployment insurance has cleared a key hurdle in the Senate. With that procedural vote, the Senate agreed to move the legislation closer to a final vote ...Read & Hear More
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Citibank Exposes Thousands Of Customers Social Security Numbers
(Undated) -- Roughly 600-thousand Citibank customers learned the financial giant inadvertently exposed their Social Security numbers earlier this year. In a letter, the bank said it believes there is quote, "little or no risk" to the affected customers ...Read More
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Brazil Threatens Tariffs On U.S. Products
(Washington, DC) -- Brazil is set to impose large tariffs on a wide range of American products, including the highest ever on U.S. cotton. Priscilla Huff reports. ...Read & Hear More
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Survey: Americans Not Preparing Financially For Retirement
(New York, NY) -- Many Americans still apparently are not preparing their bank accounts for their golden years. A new survey finds for the third consecutive year, the percentage of people in the U. ...Read More
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Restrictions On Social Media Software Eased To "Circumvent" Censorship
(Washington, DC) -- In an effort to outflank government censorship in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, the Obama administration announced Monday it would ease sanctions to allow exports of chat and social media software ...Read More
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