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Shoppers say ‘ho-hum’ to holiday sales
Sale, schmale. Used to be, customers would come running when stores cut prices. But these days, more Americans are becoming blasé about bargains. Jennifer Beasley recently left a Toys R Us in...
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Traders look to European summit
Optimism about a European debt-crisis summit this week rose and fell on Wednesday, but U.S. stock indexes barely budged. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 46 points higher; the Nasdaq composi...
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Nation Briefs
Verizon blocking Google’s new phone NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless is blocking Google’s new flagship phone from supporting Google’s attempt to make the smartphone the credit card of the future. ...
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Postal cuts to slow delivery of first-class mail
WASHINGTON — Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and, for the first time in 40 years, elimina...
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Wary first-timers holding back depressed US housing market
WASHINGTON — This should be a great time to buy a first home. Prices have sunk to 2002 levels. Sellers are waiting anxiously as homes languish on the market. Mortgage rates are their lowest ever. ...
Dec 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Enron workers look back with a mix of feelings
HOUSTON — Former Enron Corp. employee George Maddox, who lost his retirement savings when the energy giant collapsed, says he has been forced to spend his golden years making ends meet by mowing pa...
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The other student loan problem: Too little debt
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jesse Yeh uses the University of California-Berkeley library instead of buying textbooks. He scrounges for free food at campus events and occasionally skips meals. He’s stopped...
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Record number of families rated ‘economically insecure’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A record 1 in 5 U.S. households saw their available household income decline by 25 percent or more from one year to the next from 2008 through 2010. According to a study relea...
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Associated Press Shopper Carol Uyeno looks at Cyber Monday sales on her computer in Palo Alto, Calif. Retailers are coming up with names for just about every day of the week during the holiday shopping season.
What’s in a name?
PORTLAND, Ore. — Cyber Monday. Green Tuesday. Black Friday. Magenta Saturday. Chances are you won’t find any of these holidays on your calendar. Yet retailers are coming up with names for just a...
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Occupying credit union accounts
Among the clamor after some large national banks proposed new debit card fees were comments from bank customers threatening to move their money, possibly to local institutions that don’t charge suc...
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