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Stocks close at record highs before Christmas break – NBC News.com
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U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Dow industrials again notching record closes, as better-than-expected data bolstered optimism... [...]
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The 5 Big Lessons of the 2014 Shopping Season
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Perhaps the most frustrating lesson learned: Even as consumers get better at tracking the best prices, retailers have made it harder than ever to know when you're getting the absolute best deal. 141224_EM_walmart_1 ... [...]
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China's internet finance boom helps close salary gap with Hong Kong
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The booming internet finance sector on the mainland has made the job market more attractive there as the salary gap between major Chinese cities and Hong Kong is set to further narrow with mainland employers either increasing pay perks to retain tale [...]
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THIS OLD TOWN: About being a senior citizen
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By Harry Chase. Until I read Kurt Wheaton's interesting guest column "Celebrate a senior citizen" (Mansfield News, Aug. 8) I didn't realize that the upcoming 21st is National Senior Citizens Day. Sometimes I forget I'm a seni [...]
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The Economist Treats Milton Friedman as Jesus: Asks His Disciples …
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Becker makes three factual claims about financial crises in that clause, each of which is typically false. First, he asserts that “market participants” get caught up in “optimism.” Second, he implicitly asserts that these participants'  [...]
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EUR/USD – Steady Ahead of US Inflation Data
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EUR/USD - Steady Ahead of US Inflation Data. EUR/USD is trading quietly in the mid-1.37 range in Friday trading.. In economic news, US Unemployment Claims shot higher, while Retail Sales beat the estimate. On Friday, German WPI posted a decline of&nb [...]
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Warren Buffett To Finance Burger King-Tim Hortons Deal: WSJ
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Warren Buffett may have just sent Tim Hortons stock for another jump when markets open Tuesday following a report that the world's best-known investor is financing a potential merger with Burger King. Shares in both companies were already on a t [...]
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Skyscrapers That Predicted Financial Crises – Business Insider
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As China builds Sky City, the world's tallest building, we revisit the Skyscraper Index which suggests that construction booms coincides with economic crises. [...]
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UAE billionaires own a quarter of country's wealth
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The Middle East's billionaires hold a combined net worth of Dh1.3 trillion ($354 billion), which in percentage terms is the highest total wealth in any other region in the world, according to findings from the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census [...]
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