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Personal Income Off 0.7% As Spending Lags Inflation

Posted on Aug 29, 2008 - 11:08 pm
Investor's Business Daily - Consumers put the brakes on spending while personal income plunged in July, the Commerce Department said Friday, as the effect of rebate checks faded and inflation sapped buying power.

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Palin, drilling advocate, spars with oil companies
Posted on Aug 29, 2008 - 4:06 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is seen as a strong advocate for opening new areas to oil drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but has taken a hard line in negotiations with oil companies and raised taxes on the state's energy producers.

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Precision Drilling to buy peer Grey Wolf
Posted on Aug 25, 2008 - 7:43 am - Reuters
Reuters - Canada's Precision Drilling Trust (PD_u.TO) will buy U.S. driller Grey Wolf Inc for US$2 billion in cash and stock, creating one of the largest North American oil and gas rig operators, the companies said on Monday.

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Precision Drilling to buy Grey Wolf: source
Posted on Aug 25, 2008 - 5:42 am - Reuters
Reuters - Canada's Precision Drilling Trust (PD_u.TO) has reached an agreement to buy U.S. drilling company Grey Wolf Inc for about $2 billion in cash and stock, a source close to the deal said on Sunday.

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Penney, Abercrombie beat estimates but cautious
Posted on Aug 15, 2008 - 2:09 pm - Reuters
Reuters - J.C. Penney Co Inc and Abercrombie & Fitch Co reported quarterly profits that beat Wall Street expectations on Friday, but came up short in their earnings forecasts, joining other U.S. retailers who fear a deeper slowdown in consumer spending toward year's end.

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Precious metals find floor after sell-off
Posted on Aug 15, 2008 - 9:08 am - Reuters
Reuters - Gold found support below $790 an ounce after falling nearly 5 percent in early European trade on Friday, as the precious metals' downward slide ran out of steam.

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Pickens says oil won't go below $100
Posted on Aug 14, 2008 - 12:04 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens said on Thursday crude prices may soon fall as low as $110 a barrel amid falling gasoline demand, but should not sink below $100 because the United States depends heavily on oil imports.

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Procter & Gamble quarterly profit rises 33 percent
Posted on Aug 05, 2008 - 10:22 am - Reuters
Reuters - Procter & Gamble Co posted higher quarterly profit on Tuesday as price increases and cost controls more than offset soaring costs for oil and other commodities.

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P&G net up, sees commodity costs up $3 billion in FY09
Posted on Aug 05, 2008 - 9:22 am - Reuters
Reuters - Procter & Gamble Co posted higher quarterly profit on Tuesday as price increases and cost controls more than offset soaring costs for oil and other commodities.

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Pax fined for failure to screen investment funds
Posted on Aug 01, 2008 - 4:04 am - AP
AP - Pax World Management Corp. has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine because it failed to follow its own socially responsible investing criteria over a five-year period, when two of its mutual funds invested in off-limits industries such as gambling and liquor, and oil and gas exploration.

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Production problems at Airbus A380 not over: report
Posted on Jul 28, 2008 - 2:41 am - Reuters
Reuters - The chief executive of EADS aircraft business Airbus has not yet given the all-clear to production hassles that have beset the Airbus A380 jumbo jet, a German newspaper reported.

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Private equity firms eye BankUnited: report
Posted on Jul 25, 2008 - 2:25 am - Reuters
Reuters - Two private-equity firms are considering investments in BankUnited Financial Corp , weighed down by a huge portfolio of adjustable-rate mortgages, The Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the situation.

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Platinum falls to 5-month low on slowing economy
Posted on Jul 18, 2008 - 1:53 pm - AP
AP - Platinum prices fell to a five-month low Friday as a sagging U.S. economy and a push to build smaller cars prompt automakers to buy less of the metal used in catalytic converters.

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Paulson should consider receivership for Fannie, Freddie: report
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 6:39 am - Reuters
Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Secretary could make greater progress toward a safer financial system by putting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into federal receivership, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.

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Paulson should consider receivership for Fannie, Freddie: WSJ
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 5:39 am - Reuters
Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Secretary could make greater progress toward a safer financial system by putting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into federal receivership, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.

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Pimco says continues trading with Lehman
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 11:18 am - Reuters
Reuters - Pimco continues to trade with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , a Pimco spokesman said on Thursday, amid rumors that the world's biggest bond fund was scaling back business with the investment bank.

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Paulson says regulators need powers to calm crisis
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 10:18 am - Reuters
Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Thursday that regulators need emergency authority to step in to limit temporary disruptions to financial markets, a source familiar with his congressional testimony said.

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Pentagon reopening contest to build aerial tankers
Posted on Jul 09, 2008 - 6:14 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday reopened a bitter $35 billion aerial tanker contest after the selection process that picked Northrop Grumman Corp and EADS over Boeing Co was found to be flawed.

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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
Posted on Jul 08, 2008 - 3:09 pm - Reuters
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit 2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault for taking out loans they couldn't afford.

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Pending home sales tumble in May
Posted on Jul 08, 2008 - 10:09 am - Reuters
Reuters - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes plummeted by 4.7 percent in May, far more than expected and a sign of more trouble ahead for the beleaguered housing market, a real estate trade group report showed on Tuesday.

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POSCO Q2 seen strong; Japan firms may lag
Posted on Jul 08, 2008 - 3:06 am - Reuters
Reuters - POSCO (005490.KS), the world's No.4 steel maker, is expected to report strong profit growth for the April-June quarter, lifted by solid demand and higher steel prices.

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Paris keeps ECB under pressure pre-eurozone talks
Posted on Jul 07, 2008 - 6:01 am - Reuters
Reuters - France said on Monday it hoped the latest rise in euro zone interest rates was a one-off, setting the stage for a meeting where European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet will explain the move in person to the bloc's finance ministers.

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