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Stocks slumped Thursday, with the Dow losing 145 points, as investors mulled mixed reports on the economy and a sell-off in bank shares as Wall Street reform talk move toward a close.
Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost around 145 points, or 1.4%. The S&P 500 (SPX) lost 18 points or 1.7% and the Nasdaq […]

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Anadarko Petroleum, a minority partner in the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, blamed BP for "reckless" behavior, seeking to distance itself from the worst oil spill in US history.
"The mounting evidence clearly demonstrates that this tragedy was preventable and the direct result of BP’s reckless decisions and actions," Anadarko chief executive […]

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AHC Inc. has secured $16 million in financing from SunTrust Bank for pre-development and construction of more affordable housing projects in the region, and the group is on the prowl for new sites.
With the largest bank agreement it has secured to date, AHC hopes to use the funds to act more quickly when it identifies […]

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A new report card on the travel industry finds customer satisfaction improved across five sectors, but warns they may be short-lived, particularly for airlines.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, released by the University of Michigan Tuesday, showed airlines, restaurants, hotels, fast food and express delivery services all grew in customer satisfaction. Airline customers were 3 percent […]

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Treasury prices fell Thursday as risk appetite returned to the markets after reassuring remarks out of Europe.
What prices are doing: The benchmark 10-year note fell 1-5/32 to 101-19/32, pushing the yield up to 3.31% on Thursday from 3.18% late Wednesday. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
The 30-year bond dropped 2- 5/32 to […]

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Oil prices dropped Friday after a government report said almost all of the jobs added last month were temporary Census workers, and the euro fell to a 4-year low.
What prices are doing: Crude oil for July delivery fell $3.10, or more than 4%, to settle at $71.51 a barrel.
Oil prices rose more than 2% […]

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The summer vacation season has started, and Southern California drivers have been greeted with lower gasoline prices to start the season.
According to the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Weekend Gas Watch, the average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $3.006 per gallon, which is 2.4 cents less than last […]

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The latest generation of wireless Internet service finally is arriving in Kansas City on a broad scale.
Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR), along with partners Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), on Tuesday began selling the service, which uses WiMAX technology and boasts wireless download speeds comparable […]

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