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Unemployment Claims Fall in Sign of Tightening Job Market

In a sign of a tightening job market, unemployment claims fell in the week up to August 2 to 289,000 from the previous week where it was 303,000. This number was below the important ...
Beginnings of a Full-Fledged Trade War

Putin Takes Aim at Chickens in Retaliation to Sanctions

Beginnings of a Full-Fledged Trade War? It took Vladimir Putin some time, but on Thursday he finally decided to respond to EU and American sanctions with sanctions of his own. As is ...
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New Orders for Durable Goods Jump in June

New orders for manufactured durable goods in June increased $9.9 billion or 4.2 percent to $244.5 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase is the fourth in the last ...
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Global Arms Markets as Seen Through the Syrian Lens

By Scott Stewart The many and diverse efforts to arm the various actors in the Syrian civil war are really quite amazing to watch. These efforts are also quite hard to decipher — ...
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U.S. Home Prices On a Tear, Climb 9.3%

The latest S&P/Case-Schiller housing report showed average home prices for 20 cities increasing by 9.3% for the year ending in February 2013. The index rose 0.3% between January ...
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Up, Up and Up. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq Hit New Highs.

All major stock indices hit new highs today on good news on corporate earnings, the housing and employment fronts, and benign news from Europe. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ...
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Should You Buy a Notebook or a Tablet Computer?

In case you missed it, a seismic technological shift has taken place over the last few years. This shift has implications for the future of computing as well as your wallet. The shift ...
Bank of America threw in the towel on their $5/month debit card fees

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