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World commercial property Q2 sales up 47 percent: study

Global commercial real estate sales rose 47 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier to $101 billion and are on track to reach or top $440 billion for the year, according to a report by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc .

UBS hires Morgan Stanley brokerage executive Mallon

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The U.S. brokerage arm of UBS said it hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokerage executive Jon Mallon to manage its Santa Rosa, California, branch and help attract and advise high-net-worth customers from affluent towns north of San Francisco.

Obama Making Debt Deal 'Unattainable,' McConnell Says

U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., assailed President Barack Obama's attempt to forge a grand debt deal as smoke and mirrors, a sign of intensifying rhetoric inside the beltway, as the deadline to strike a compromise draws closer.
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Ron Paul to Retire From Congress

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian Texas Congressman, won't seek re-election to his House seat next year, regardless of whether he wins the 2012 Republican presidential race, Paul said Tuesday.
Super Gonorrhoea Found in Japan

'Superbug' Strain of Gonorrhea: Fact sheet

A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea was found to be resistant to antibiotics, international researchers say. According to the CDC, more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year and less than half of these infections are reported to CDC.
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Applied Materials warns of tough economies

Chip manufacturing equipment maker Applied Materials said tough economic conditions in Europe and the United States were hurting demand, and it maintained its forecast for slower quarterly revenue.
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Tea Party: U.S. Default Preferable to Debt Deal

OPINION: As President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats have to negotiate a debt deal and prevent the totally avoidable -- a U.S. default on its debt -- Tea Party Republicans appear only to be interested in one thing: getting their way, even if it hurts the nation.
Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods: Was Golf's Biggest Star Juicing?

Tiger Woods was a one-time client of a Canadian physician charged with injecting elite athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. The attorney for a key witness in the case of Dr. Anthony Galea says Woods did not receive performance enhancing drugs from the doctor. But one can't help but wonder.
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Trade deficit surges to $50.2 billion in May

The U.S. trade gap widened much more than expected in May as a jump in oil prices helped push imports to the second highest level on record and exports fell slightly from April's record high, a U.S. government report showed on Tuesday.
Google Android Devices More Popular than Apple iPhone

Apple, Microsoft Leading Non-Android Group to Bully Android

In an allegedly unholy coalition, Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion have joined hands to demote Android's position in the smartphone market. Six of Google's rivals tied up recently to prevent Google from buying a critical trove of telephony patents, at Nortel's wireless technology patents' auction, with judges in the United States and Canada approving the $4.5 billion transaction.
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Salt Risk Heightens After More Research

During a 14-year-old trial study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine Journal, researchers found that a diet high in sodium and low in potassium increases the risk of death from heart disease and other related health risks. The study also found that a higher sodium intake is associated with increased total mortality in the general US population.
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Gonorrhea Superbug: U.S. Safe -- For Now

Health officials say gonorrhea is showing resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it, causing concerns over a gonorrhea superbug outbreak. The resistant gonorrhea strain has not be found in the United states, but CDC officials say there are signs it could happen.
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Job openings, rate little changed in May

There was little turnover in the U.S. labor market in May, and the number of available jobs at the end of the month was virtually unchanged from April, government data showed on Tuesday.
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U.S. trade deficit surges to $50.2 billion in May

The U.S. trade gap widened much more than expected in May as a jump in oil prices helped push imports to the second highest level on record and exports fell slightly from April's record high, a U.S. government report showed on Tuesday.

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