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Video games are good. Video games are bad. Two separate studies show how video games can influence your children in vastly different ways.
First the bad. Despite claims to the opposite by the industry, an Iowa State University study claims to have pr...
DATE: Mar 03, 2010
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DETROIT (AP) — Toyota's recalls and East Coast snowstorms weighed down US auto sales in February, but automakers remained optimistic that a recovery is under way.
General Motors Co.'s February sales rose 11.5 percent thanks to new models and pent-up ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index closed higher yesterday as commodity prices rallied and impressive quarterly results from Bank of Montreal lifted the index's heavily weighted financial sector.
The strong performance for Canada's...
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LONDON - Britain's top share index hit a six-week closing high and rose for a third straight session, led by banks with HSBC firmer after the previous session's post results sell-off. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,484.06 points, up 78.12 or 1.45 percent.
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, may be allowed by the US paymaster to boost salaries for some of its highest-compensated executives, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Among AIG's 25 top-pa...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market had its third straight winning day on signs that companies are becoming more optimistic about the economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average edged up two points yesterday but closed off its best levels. The Dow had man...
DATE: Mar 03, 2010
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Many businesses could be driven to the wall as a result of the two percent increase in payroll tax introduced by Finance Minister Paula Cox in Friday's Budget statement.
That is according to Aaron Smith, president of the Igility Group of Companies, w...
DATE: Mar 03, 2010
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Three leading executives from UK-listed Bermuda insurers top the bill in a new event for the Island's re/insurance calendar later this month.
Barbara Merry, chief executive of Hardy Underwriting, joins Hiscox Bermuda CEO Charles Dupplin and Lancashir...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The cost to protect against a default by American International Group Inc. declined to the lowest since before the company's government bailout after a $35.5 billion sale of an Asian insurance unit bolstered creditor optimism.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he's not very happy with the results.
So he's takin...
DATE: Mar 03, 2010
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