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GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Bloomberg) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, will eliminate about 11,200 jobs at its Sam's Club membership warehouse clubs as it hires an outside company to demonstrate products.
About 10,000 demonstrat...
DATE: Jan 25, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Employment dropped in 39 US states in December, seven more than in the prior month, indicating job losses were widespread.
Payrolls in California showed the biggest decline, falling by 38,800 last month, according to figures ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2010
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Butterfield Bank shares continued their roller-coaster ride pattern of recent days when they fell 4.1 percent on Friday.
The bank closed at $3.50 in yesterday's trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX), after a fall of 15 cents on the trading of 4...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Duck season? Rabbit season? It's bank season. In the wake of this week's Massachusetts Massacre, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats may place banks in their sights as they try to appease populist anger and come up with some sort of ac...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Q. Can Macy's Inc. stock continue to do well?—B.D., via the Internet
A. This nationwide operator of about 800 Macy's stores and 40 Bloomingdale's stores increasingly is thinking local these days.
It has grouped its stores into 69 districts with 10 to...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Recent statistics indicate that 50 percent of children born today will live to 100 years old. With this announcement, supported by the medical miracles in extending life far beyond the expectations of our parents and grandparents, comes a dawning rev...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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If you want a better chance of creating household wealth, earn a college degree — and get married. "Americans who already have the largest incomes and who have had the largest gains in earnings since 1970 — college graduates — have fortified their fi...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Income is usually the largest factor affecting personal finances, other than inheritance. If you're earning $350,000 a year, the problems life throws at you will be entirely different from those affecting workers in lower-paid professions. That's obv...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A shareholder sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc's board for excessive bonuses and wants bank executives to pay the $500 million in charitable donations that Goldman is making after being criticised for its compensation pol...
DATE: Jan 22, 2010
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BRUSSELS (AP) — General Motors Co.'s Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium — casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market.
Opel head Nick Reilly said ye...
DATE: Jan 22, 2010
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