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Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseCountrywide Financial is the gift that keeps on taking from Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). This morning it took $10 billion from...
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courtesy U.S. State DepartmentThe much-maligned Keystone XL pipeline project proposed by Transcanada Corp. (NYSE: TRP) today received a go-ahead from the state of Nebraska’s Department of...
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courtesy of Google Inc.Search giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an agreement today to resolve concerns that some of the company’s practices could...
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ThinkstockTransocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and burned in 2010, taking 11 workers’ lives and dumping 5 million barrels of crude into the...
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ThinkstockFearful of the consequences of milk prices rising to $8 a gallon, U.S. House and Senate conferees have agreed to extend the 2008 Farm Bill for another year. Had a deal not been reached, the...
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ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was hit with a copyright penalty in China. The Xinhua news agency reports: A Beijing court ruled against Apple Inc. in a copyright dispute on Thursday, saying the...
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ThinkstockLisa Jackson, the top administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has issued statement this morning announcing her resignation from the agency following close upon...
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courtesy of Toyota Motor Corp.In a settlement filed with a federal court in California yesterday, Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) has agreed to pay about $1.1 billion to bring an end to a case that...
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Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology has been ordered by a Pittsburgh jury to pay Carnegie Mellon University $1.17 billion in a patent infringement suit. The jury’s verdict is subject to...
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ThinkstockHerbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is probably feeling as though it should change its corporate structure to incorporated. With or without its “limited” structure, the company and its...
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courtesy of Nokia Corp.Struggling smartphone makers, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) have signed an agreement ending all current patent licensing disputes between...
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ThinkstockThe IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is about to get a serious makeover. With its $9.4 billion market value, the futures exchange is acquiring the NYSE Euronext Inc. (NYSE: NYX)....
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Earlier this morning we ran a piece showing that gun and ammunition sales have blasted off since the Newtown massacre. The reality is that gun, ammo and magazine sales went into an overdrive, and...
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ThinkstockWith the president and Congress attempting to reach a budget deal in an effort to avoid the fiscal cliff, it is likely they will agree on spending cuts, including those to entitlement...
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thinkstockWe have warned after the Newtown massacre that more gun control efforts would be coming down the pipe. New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg has called on the President to lead in the charge...
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