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Wall Street claws back after jobs report

Wall Street stocks bounced back on Wednesday, a day after its worst selloff in three months, as a report showed the U.S. private sector added more jobs than expected last month.
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Wynn Resorts to vote to remove Okada from board

Wynn Resorts Ltd said it would hold a special meeting of shareholders to remove Kazuo Okada from its board, less than two weeks after the Japanese billionaire was ousted as director of the company's Macau unit.
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Wal-Mart to use more self-checkout lanes

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will add more self-checkout lanes at Walmart and Sam's Clubs stores as it continues to look for ways to lower costs and prices, Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said on Wednesday.
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Facebook goes down in parts of Europe

Facebook Inc, the world's biggest social networking site, said its service was unavailable in some European countries on Wednesday morning because of technical problems.
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Japan prosecutors charge key figures in Olympus scandal

Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday charged Olympus Corp and six key figures in the $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the camera and endoscope maker, tightening their case in the investigation of one of Japan's biggest corporate scandals.
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Analysis: Greek default may be gift to other euro strugglers

Greece's tortuous debt restructuring and threat of retroactive laws to compel reluctant creditors heaps regulatory risk onto investors but may make voluntary sovereign debt revamps more attractive and likely for other cash-strapped euro sovereigns and their creditors.
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Analaysis: Greek default may be gift to other euro strugglers

Greece's tortuous debt restructuring and threat of retroactive laws to compel reluctant creditors heaps regulatory risk onto investors but may make voluntary sovereign debt revamps more attractive and likely for other cash-strapped euro sovereigns and their creditors.
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Sim City gets rebuilt for 2013 with modern look

Sim City is going back to its roots. The classic city building game that first came out in 1989, is returning next year in a new version that has a modern-day look and feel but is being built by those who worked on the original.
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Hacking mole helps FBI arrest Anonymous leaders

One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
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Wall Street marks first big loss of 2012

The Dow dropped more than 200 points on Tuesday, handing Wall Street its worst day in three months on renewed fears of a disorderly default in Greece and concerns that China's slowdown would hit global growth.
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Solid job gains eyed in February

The economy likely recorded a third month of solid job gains in February, which could further reduce the chances of additional monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
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Wall Street posts first big loss of 2012

The Dow dropped more than 200 points on Tuesday, handing Wall Street its worst day in almost three months on renewed fears of a disorderly default in Greece and concerns that China's slowdown would hit global growth.
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Wall Street drops most in 3 months on Greece, economy

Stocks fell the most in nearly three months on Tuesday, with the Dow tumbling more than 200 points as the risk of a disorderly default in Greece and a reduced growth target in China dented recent confidence in the global economic recovery.
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Athens, creditor group turn up heat on Greek bondholders

Athens turned up the heat on its creditors on Tuesday as it sought to secure a bond swap that will cut its mountainous debt, while the main bondholders group warned a disorderly default would cause more than a trillion euros of damage to the euro zone.
Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, presenting the Aventador J.

Lamborghini Aventador J 'Unica' Officially Announced, Sold

Lamborghini announced its new speedster, the Lamborghini Aventador J, Unica, on Monday evening and confirmed that it would be a totally unique, one-off production. The car sold for €2.1 million, or approximately $2.76 million, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
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Allen Stanford found guilty of vast fraud

Allen Stanford was convicted on Tuesday of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a verdict that caps a riches-to-rags trajectory for the former Texas financier and Caribbean playboy.
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Lehman emerges from bankruptcy

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's record $639 billion bankruptcy ended on Tuesday, clearing the way for it to start distributing about $65 billion to creditors starting on April 17, court documents show.
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UK moves towards three strikes Internet policy

British Web users face having their Internet connections throttled or suspended if they are found to have downloaded music or movies illegally after Internet service providers BT and TalkTalk lost a court appeal on Tuesday.
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Dow off over 200 points as economy, Greece hit Wall Street

Stocks fell the most in nearly three months on Tuesday with the Dow tumbling more than 200 points as recent government data rekindled concerns about global growth and a deadline loomed for private holders of Greek debt to agree to hefty losses.
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Members of hacking group LulzSec arrested

U.S. authorities said on Tuesday top members of the LulzSec computer hacking group were arrested and its leader had previously pleaded guilty to carrying out over a dozen cyber attacks on major companies.

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