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Economy trumps geopolitical strife: oil falls - The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oil prices fell Tuesday as fresh signs of a deepening US recession trumped tensions in the Middle East and worries over natural gas ...

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mocoNews.net - Clearwire's CEO Ben Wolff :"What You'll See Today ... - Washington Post

Today, during Clearwire's presentation in Portland, the company tried to anticipate the audience's questions and answer the questions: Why do people need ...

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Gazprom slashes supplies to Europe - International Herald Tribune

By Andrew E. Kramer MOSCOW: Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, halted nearly its entire export of natural gas to Europe on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of a dispute over prices with neighboring Ukraine

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National Association of Realtors pending sales index drops - Bizjournals.com

The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index has dropped to a record low as the housing market continues to weigh on an already distressed economy.

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The Economic Crisis vs. the Crisis in the Economy, Part I - Seeking Alpha

... European Union members to take the measures necessary to stimulate their stronger economies or even save their own weaker economies from default. ...

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US court orders Enron fraudster Jeffrey Skilling to be resentenced - guardian.co.uk

... whose lawyers had argued vigorously that the court should overturn all 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading on which he was convicted by a ...

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Fed: Economic woes will last despite radical moves - The Associated Press

In the first action of its kind in the Fed's 95-year history, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues created a target range for its rate, ...

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Fed predicts economy will get worse - CNNMoney.com

By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The US economy is likely to deteriorate further this year and unemployment will rise ...

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Microsoft Names Bob Muglia President - InformationWeek

As head of the company's server and tools division, Muglia oversees Microsoft's Windows Server, Visual Studio, and SQL Server business, which account for about 22% of Microsoft's total sales.

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Inflation worry helps US inflation-protected note sale - Reuters

By Ellen Freilich NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policy-makers are worried that inflation will slow down too much, but the US Treasury's sale of $8 billion inflation-protected 10-year notes on Tuesday