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DETROIT (AP) — Major automakers' US sales continued their deep slump in February, putting the industry on track for its worst sales month in more than 27 years as huge rebates and low-interest financing failed to spur fearful consumers to make a majo...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - With the economy in the dumps, you might hesitate before buying discretionary goodies like video games or pizza. But what if you could get those things for free by doing something you might already be inclined to do - like signing up ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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The revised estimate of US fourth-quarter GDP, released last week, was even more negative than the dreadful figure the government statisticians presented in January.
Analysts' consensus expectations had been lowered over the past month, but the data ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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Pinching pennies, Bermudian Style. For the first time in many years, I am seeing more gatherers of nature's bounty along the railway trails and side roads in Bermuda.
The loquats are ripening; the Surinam cherries and bay grapes have had a run. In pr...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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You can literally worry yourself sick about money. With the stock market and the job market down in the dumps, many people are, too.
Medical professionals are reporting increasing levels of the kinds of behaviours and ailments that accompany high anx...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first budget is based on economic assumptions that are significantly higher than the forecasts of many private economists, which could make it harder to reach his goal of cutting the deficit in half by the e...
DATE: Feb 27, 2009
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Corporate earnings reports and economic data continue to be unrelentingly awful, just about anywhere in the world. But this is not unexpected, as we are currently experiencing the worst of the global recession. At the same time, faith in the ability ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2009
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I have ignored the Twitter fad for some time now. I just do not have the time to send text messages to provide details of my life.
Yet Twitter seems to be popular among the younger journalists just starting in the profession, as I can see from the re...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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AsusTek Computer Inc. upended the laptop market when it brought out the tiny, cheap Eee PC a year and a half ago. As a follow-up, the plucky Taiwanese company is trying something harder: conquering the kitchen.
Many manufacturers have tried and faile...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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A state-of-the-art gym and squash club will be the central focus for Bermuda's first 'green' building at Victoria Place.
The Court House, which opened yesterday and which is run by owner Richard Burns and general manager Sue Pell, features everything...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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