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Small-business owners can avoid loan rejection
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Small-business owners can avoid loan rejection

June 24, 2013

Jeff Stibel, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., says that many small-business owners go about getting a loan all wrong.Nick Ut/Associated Press Instead, he said, find out how you…

Three reasons not to panic about the stock market – yet
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Three reasons not to panic about the stock market – yet

June 22, 2013

Many on Wall Street believe stocks are reasonably priced, and their recent retreat shouldn’t panic investors.Richard Drew/Associated Press It’s easy to give into panic and sell along with everyone else.…

Survey: Many say ‘Big Brother’ is here
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Survey: Many say ‘Big Brother’ is here

June 22, 2013

More than half of Americans polled in a survey released last week said they agreed with the statement “We are really in the era of Big Brother.” The survey from…

Facebook introduces video on Instagram
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Facebook introduces video on Instagram

June 22, 2013

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about Instagram’s new video feature. Instagram’s 100 million users will be able to share 15-second clips.Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said users…

5 points to know about the health-care overhaul
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5 points to know about the health-care overhaul

June 22, 2013

About half the people surveyed earlier this spring by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation felt they didn’t have enough information to understand how the law will affect their family. Among…

EU welcomes my summer home – well, sort of
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EU welcomes my summer home – well, sort of

June 17, 2013

This juxtaposition is more prevalent where I currently am – Croatia. I’ve been coming here for several years now, to teach and research, and have witnessed many changes. On July…

Stocks rise waiting for Fed word
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Stocks rise waiting for Fed word

June 17, 2013

U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors trying to guess what the…

Businessman has eye on building pot empire
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Businessman has eye on building pot empire

June 17, 2013

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, left, and Jamen Shively, CEO of Diego Pellicer, spoke during a news conference in Seattle in May, when Shively described plans to quickly raise $10…

Privacy – the online generation wants it
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Privacy – the online generation wants it

June 15, 2013

Mandi Grandjean, a recent graduate and an athlete at Miami University in Ohio, is OK with the government doing secret surveillance of phone-call records and Internet exchanges but believes it’s…

Fine-tuning retirement plans beneficial for all
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Fine-tuning retirement plans beneficial for all

June 15, 2013

Gervais, Pauldu1-i-syn The short answer should be “very well.” As a longtime resident, business owner and certified public accountant, I have read countless articles and listened to many experts about…

Sign of confidence: More Americans quit jobs
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Sign of confidence: More Americans quit jobs

June 11, 2013

Job seekers inquire for positions at the 12th annual Mission career fair in Los Angeles. The Labor Department on Tuesday reported the number of people who quit their jobs in…

New prosperity?
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New prosperity?

June 8, 2013

Great Lakes region pins economic hopes on water

Tipsters: Agency casts wide net
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Tipsters: Agency casts wide net

June 8, 2013

The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency’s need to collect millions of phone records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale,…

Home price spike highest in years
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Home price spike highest in years

June 4, 2013

U.S. home prices soared 12.1 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since February 2006, as more buyers competed for fewer homes, real estate data provider CoreLogic…

Stocks take a tumble on Fed stimulus worries
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Stocks take a tumble on Fed stimulus worries

June 4, 2013

Comments from a Fed official raised expectations that the Fed could start easing off its support for the economy soon, sending the stock market sharply lower in the late afternoon.…