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New head of House panel says job creation will be top priority
Washington Post
As he takes the reins of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Sander M. Levin is vowing to raise the profile of a once-powerful panel that, in recent years, has been overshadowed by the ethics troubles...
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German exports 'hit by cold weather'
BBC
German exports fell unexpectedly in January, with the cold weather that month being seen as the main cause. Exports in the first month of the year declined 6.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared with December. This was...
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Greek Crisis Is Over, Rest of Region Safe, Prodi Says (Update2)
Bloomberg
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The worst of Greece ’s financial crisis is over and other European nations won’t follow in its path, said former European Commission President Romano Prodi . “For Greece, the problem is completely over,” said...
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Check your bank's financial health
MSNBC
The number of banks with risky levels of bad loans rose only slightly in the last quarter of 2009, partly because the FDIC closed so many failing banks, according to federal data analyzed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop...
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When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life
USA Today
Jane Knudsen was a 19-year-old mother of two when she went to work in a textile mill here in 1973. Jobs were plentiful: "When you started work, you thought you'd be there until you retired," she says. She...
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MSNBC
NEW YORK - Stocks are edging higher after the government said businesses trimmed their inventories again in January. The Commerce Department says Wednesday that wholesale inventories fell 0.2 percent in January following a 1 percent drop in December....
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Forget Toyota. Chrysler's got the most problems.
CNN Money
The car company that is off to the worst start of 2010 isn't Toyota. It's Chrysler Group.Industry experts say that even though Chrysler's overall sales are down only 3% during the first two months of the year, estimates...
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Stimulus Deluge Looms
ABC News
What started as a trickle of money into the private sector could soon be a gusher, an analysis of the status of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan reveals. A roughly $200 billion chunk of stimulus money –...
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USA Today
In a significant policy reversal, the USA's largest bank will stop letting customers overdraw their checking accounts with one-time debit card transactions. Bank of America's (BAC) new policy which takes effect in mid-June for new customers and early...
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