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Breaking News Thu, 21 Aug 2008
The Troika Dialog investment bank traders work shortly after the New York Stock Exchange opened, Moscow, Monday, Sept. 17, 2001. Russian Trading System Index RTS fell only 1.09 % Monday, showing little correlation with the negative news from the New York Stock Excha
Defence   Georgia   Market   Photos   Russia  
 Asia Times 
Georgia invasion worsens Russian downturn
| By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - Moscow's equity markets, whose benchmark measure has declined with increasing rapidity since the start of the year, have turned worse with Russia's invasion of Georgia. | ... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Tractor, bulldozer, contractor, heavy trucks
Business   California   Environment   Industry   Photos  
 Scripps Howard 
Timing of clean air rules tough for California builders
| Mike Shaw didn't want to be caught by surprise when California officials started cracking down on diesel engines. | He owned more than 100 of them -- powering the scrapers, graders and bulldozers th... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
 Yen - Japanese currency - money (mv2)  The Guardian 
US dollar sinks on financial sector worries, yen up
* Concerns over Fannie, Freddie, Lehman weigh on dollar * Dollar index on track for worst loss in five months * Risk aversion fuels broad gains in yen (Updates prices, adds quotes, U.S. data) By Gertr... (photo: WN / mervin)
Dollar   Economy   Financial   Fuels   Photos  
Exxonmobil  Rig Zone 
Exxon Mobil,Chevron Top Bidders in GOM Lease Sale
| HOUSTON (Dow Jones Newswires), August 21, 2008 | Exxon Mobil Corp. was the top bidder on the latest Gulf of Mexico Western Lease Sale organized this week by the U.S. Interior Department, underlying ... (photo: Global web / Global web)
Exxon   Fuel   Gas   Mobil   Photos  
Top Stories
 At&t-telecommucation-technology-internet-online (sl1) Business Journal
New AT&T service offers installation and tech support
> | AT&T Inc. is launching a new in-home service called AT&T ConnecTech that will provide technical support for television and home theater installation, personal compute... (photo: Public domain photo)
Business   Consumers   Photos   Technology   Telecommunication  
 PILIPINAS SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION - GAS STATION - OIL - GASOLINE                               Star Tribune
Oil rises above $119 on US-Russia tensions, OPEC output fears, sliding dollar
| Oil prices jumped above $119 Thursday as rising antagonism with Russia underscored the possibility it could affect energy shipments from the world's second-largest oil ... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Dollar   Economy   Energy   Opec   Photos  
Indonesia Health medical check up .(nu1) Insurance Newsnet
Medica Introduces Health Plan Targeting Large Uninsured Group: 50-64 Year Olds
Business Editors | MINNETONKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 21, 2008--Medica today announced the launch of Medica Encore, a new product aimed at Minnesota residents age... (photo: WN / nurkamiah)
Disease   Health   Medicine   People   Photos  
 Oil Prices, Gasoline Prices, oil, gas, fuel, energy, industry, consumer. tp1 Kansas City Star
Oil rises on falling US gasoline supplies
Damiko Morris Chart shows total oil production in Gulf of Mexico region from 200 to 2008; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mm | Oil prices rose Thursday above $116 a bar... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
Economy   Energy   Oil   Photos   Production  
 Gasoline station - Crude - Oil - Vehicle - Fuel Canada Dot Com
Oil climbs $2 on U.S., Russia tensions
| LONDON -- Oil rose to more than US$118 a barrel on Thursday, climbing for a third straight session, as Washington's missile shield deal with Poland angered Russia, addi... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Business   Economy   Fuel   Oil   Photos  
Meat                                Canada Dot Com
Tainted meat recalled after one dies, dozens sick
| Two northern B.C. residents are sick as a result of eating meat contaminated with the potentially deadly bacterium listeria monocytogenes, a doctor from the B.C. Centre... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Disease   Health   Meat   Outbreak   Photos  
 Copper Cables - Technology The Guardian
Copper rises on higher oil prices, weaker dollar
* Copper close to highest level for three weeks * Lead rises almost 6 percent on supply concerns * Tin rises on falling supplies from Indonesia (Recasts, updates comments... (photo: (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan))
Business   Copper   Dollar   Economy   Photos  
Reliance -Telecommunication - Industry -India (sk1) International Herald Tribune
Reliance to expand into the U.S. with mobile content
| : The media and entertainment division of the Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group is starting Jump Games U.S.A., a publisher and developer of mobile video games, in ... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Entertainment   India   Mobile   Photos   Reliance  
No barbecue this year as economy dumps Ham Jam Florida Times Union
No barbecue this year as economy dumps Ham Jam
| The latest casualty of Florida's slumping economy apparently is the First Coast Ham Jam, the annual barbecue contest and country music festival that celebrated its 20th... (photo: WN / marzena)
Barbecue   Country   Economy   Florida   Photos  
Nintendo DS Time Magazine
Nintendo Sued for Wii Wand Patent
| (TOKYO) — Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company. | Hillcr... (photo: Public Domain / )
Nintendo   Patent   Photos   Technology   Tokyo  
HSBC Bank Buffalo News
HSBC computer calamity continues
| Customers of HSBC Bank USA slogged through a fourth day of the bank's computer woes Wednesday, as officials worked to restore the remaining data and update account bala... (photo: GFDL / Onnik Krikorian)
Bank   Company   Hsbc   Institution   Photos  
The Guardian
China replaces US as Japan's biggest export destination
| China has replaced the US as Japan's biggest export destination, according to figures published today, underlining the Olympic host's emergence as a global economic pow... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
China   Export   Japan   Photos   Trade  
Tax Issues Finance & Investments
- Palm Beach County property owners to get tax notices
- Third District candidates focus on trade, energy, tax cuts
- NC looking at tax increases for road construction
- 'Official' tax letter isn't really
A foreclosure sign stands outside an existing home on the market in Denver on Friday, May 9, 2008.
Owners arguing tax value of homes
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- GM to invest $500 million in new compact car
- GM to invest $500 mln in U.S. plant to build new car
- GM to invest $500 mln in U.S. plant to build new compact
- GM to invest $500 million in U.S. plant to build new compact
 Gasoline station - Crude - Oil - Vehicle - Fuel
Oil climbs $2 on U.S., Russia tensions
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Currency Banking
- Oil jumps $5 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar
- Commodity futures surge on falling dollar
- Oil jumps $5 on U.S.-Russia tensions, sliding dollar
- Dollar falls, gold rises in Europe
 Yen - Japanese currency - money (mv2)
US dollar sinks on financial sector worries, yen up
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- Report on fatal Deutsche Bank fire cites a cut water pipe
- Analysts see tough quarter for U.S. investment banks
- Source: New York AG focuses auction-rate probe on BofA, Gold
- Texas group to buy subprime-besieged German bank
Pedestrians walk outside the Nasdaq stock market on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. Wall Street fell sharply Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down about more than 150 points on fears that the Federal Reserve's decision to slash interest rates might not prevent the United States from sliding into a recession.
US bank 'to fail within months'
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Finance Oil & Energy
- Predator state calls the sho
- The new silver - made with paper
- Don't cry for Doha
- Haddonfield’s Donohue hoped for more kick
Loading rice onto tractor in Ban Sam Ruen, Phitsanulok, Thailand
Don't cry for Doha
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- Mexico's crude oil production down 10 percent
- Oil jumps $5 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar
- B&W's Subsidiary Grabs Contract to Supply Oil Sands Equi
- Oil jumps $5 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar
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Oil jumps $6 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar
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Industries Technology
- Years of beers Dayton AleFest celebrating decade of pouring
- A Nation-Fulfilled Prophecy?
- Campaigns vie over whether McCain is Bush clone
- GM to invest $500 million in new compact car
NATO Press conference by the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice
A Nation-Fulfilled Prophecy?
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- Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips
- Welcome, freshmen: Here's your iPod
- Microsoft's new Windows ads to feature comedian Jerry Se
- A look at the publicly traded companies resulting from IAC&#
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