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<title>Faces beyond the numbers of long-term unemployed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[About 12.8 million people are out of work and what's especially troubling, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, is the large number of long-term unemployed - more than 40 percent have been jobless more than six months.]]></description>
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<title>Obama's budget offers short-term help for economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The president will send Congress a budget that will provide short-term help to a struggling economy while offering a long-term plan to deal with soaring deficits, the White House said Sunday. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:08:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Micron CEO: 'Nothing interim' about new job</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new chief executive officer of Micron Technology Inc. says there is nothing interim about his job.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:06:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Drillers cut natural gas production as prices drop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers don't make money if prices go too low - and drilling wells isn't cheap.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:03:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iraq inaugurated a new offshore oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf on Sunday in a vital step to ease infrastructure constraints and to bring sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and international sanctions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:01:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Justice Department calls Swiss Bank a 'fugitive'</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:07:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Greece's grim choice: deep budget cuts or default</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:00:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Turbo-traders take Bank of America for a ride</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:59:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Donald Trump blasts plans for Scottish wind farm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond over plans to build a wind farm off the coast of his luxury Scottish golf resort.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:57:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Company challenges Kodak move to dump theater deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The owner of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and have the company's name removed from the Academy Awards venue.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Trade deficit widens to $48.8 billion in December</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Commerce Department said Friday that the overall trade deficit widened to $48.8 billion in December because imports grew at a faster pace than exports. It was the largest imbalance since June.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:46:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Japan seeks waiver from U.S. penalties on Iran</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says Japan is trying to negotiate a waiver from U.S. penalties on companies doing business with Iran. He says Tokyo is seeking other suppliers to offset a reduction of Iranian oil imports.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:39:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Democrats propose 6-week cut in jobless benefits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Congressional Democrats are urging a modest six-week cut in the number of weeks that unemployed workers can receive jobless benefits as House-Senate talks on a payroll tax cut slowly inch along.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:26:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ford CFO Booth to retire, CEO Mulally staying put </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two top Ford executives who helped lead Ford's comeback from financial disaster are retiring, but CEO Alan Mulally says he has no plans to leave.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:45:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:21:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Wholesale inventories rose 1 percent in December </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles sharply in December although the gains are expected to slow in coming months, a development that could curb overall economic growth.]]></description>
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<title>Pepsico to cut 8,700 jobs; 4th qtr net rises</title>
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<title>Amazon in talks for NJ warehouses </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:08:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>13,000 is next Dow milestone, with record in sight</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Murdoch's company settles more phone hacking lawsuits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of lawsuits against it for phone hacking, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced in a London court Wednesday.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:37:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>UK to buy another Boeing C-17 military plane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain will buy a new Boeing C-17 military aircraft to help move troops around.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:37:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Forget the Happy Meal. 'Lorax' gets green tie-ins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Lorax, perhaps the most famous anti-industrial crusader from children's literature, is about to become a big-time corporate spokesman.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:35:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia ends phone assembly in Europe, cuts jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cellphones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:36:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Consumer borrowing rose $19.3 billion in December</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Americans accelerated their borrowing in December for the second straight month, running up more credit card debt and taking out loans to buy cars and attend school.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:05:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>4 Yahoo board members including chair leaving </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the Internet company's revenue and stock price.]]></description>
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