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Yahoo: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

The long-beleaguered search engine company Yahoo! Inc. would probably be better off selling off pieces of itself rather than submit to a takeover in whole, given that the separate segments of the firm probably have more value than the sum of the individual parts. However, any such potential transaction won’t happen overnight.

Canada a magnetic north for U.S. retailers

Canada a magnetic north for U.S. retailers
More U.S. retailers looking for fresh markets are turning to Canada, lured by their northern neighbor's resilient economy, strong currency and the familiarity with their brands.
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Goldman may cut additional jobs and costs: report

Goldman Sachs Group Inc may cut $1.45 billion in expenses by year's end, $250 million more than it indicated in July, in a move that could lead to more job cuts, according to The New York Times.
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Case-Shiller: Home Prices Rise for 4th Straight Month on Summer Buying

Home prices in the 20-city Case Shiller Index rose for the fourth straight month in July, but the operative phrase remains: let the buyer beware. Demand conditions in most major U.S. cities remains soft, and even though home prices are attractive now, price retrenchments are possible.
Rick Perry

Is Rick Perry’s Bi-National Health Insurance Plan Too Ambitious?

The bi-national health insurance was Perry’s one ambitious plan to provide Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. Perry wanted to implement “an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” that could “treat maladies unique to this region.”
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Deloitte sued for $7.6 billion, accused of missing fraud

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd , the world's largest accounting and consulting firm, was accused on Monday of failing to detect fraud during its audits of one of the biggest private mortgage firms to collapse during the U.S. housing crash.
Are we being productive?

Do Tablets Increase Productivity?

A recent Citigroup survey asked 1,800 consumers from the U.S., UK, and China what purposes their tablets served. Probably expected, most tablet wielders are browsing the web, checking email, or instant messaging.
Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's Doctor on Trial in Singer's Death

More than two years after Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest at his mansion, the doctor who was treating the Thriller singer will come before a jury on Tuesday charged with responsibility for his death.
Gold Bullion and coins from the American Precious Metals Exchange (APMEX) is seen in this picture taken in New York

Interpreting the Gold Boom and Bust: Still a Safe Haven?

One thing is clear. There's nothing like a gold standard when it comes to analyzing the way the precious metal prices have behaved in the past three months. Gold's decade-long bull run peaked in the last three months when the prices went up by around 30 percent.
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Stock futures ride the wave of Europe hope

Stock index futures were lifted on Tuesday by a wave of hope that euro zone officials were working to add measures to cut Greece's debt and shore up the region's banks.
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BAE Systems to axe up to 3,000 UK jobs

Europe's biggest defense contractor BAE Systems said it will axe up to 3,000 jobs in Britain as cuts to global defense budgets hit orders for its fighter jets.

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