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Toyota vows quality shake-up, faces criminal probe

A top Toyota Motor Corp U.S. executive promised a quality shake-up on Tuesday as the Obama administration said it would hold the carmaker's chief to a pledge to address safety issues after massive recalls.

Wall Street bonuses jumped 17 percent last year

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Wall Street paid out $20.3 billion in bonuses in 2009, up 17 percent from a year earlier, New York State's comptroller said, as the financial industry recovered fitfully from a near meltdown.

Exploring The Edge

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From ambitious concept to international academic institution, Iceland‘s Svartárkot Centre for Research & Education adopts a radical new approach to addressing the complex — often vexed — relationship between humans and nature
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Home prices unexpectedly dip

Home prices unexpectedly slipped in December but the annual rate of decline slowed, reinforcing the housing market's rocky road to recovery, Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller indexes showed on Tuesday.
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Target quarterly profit tops estimates

Target Corp on Tuesday reported higher quarterly profit as the No. 2 U.S. discount retailer avoided the drastic clearance sales that crimped results in its holiday quarter a year ago.
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Federal-Mogul posts profit on cost cuts

Auto parts maker Federal-Mogul Corp (FDML.O) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, compared with a year-earlier loss, driven by aggressive cost-cutting and improving global auto production.
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Whistler track tweaked after further spills

Minor changes are being made to one of the corners on Whistler's controversial sliding track after Latvian and Croatian four-man sleds rolled over in a supplementary Olympic training session on Monday.
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Golden ice dancers banish Canadian blues

A young pair of ice dancers lifted the host country out of its Winter Olympic gloom with a golden performance Monday just as Canadians were questioning their team's medal-winning capability.
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Stock futures drop as economy eyed ahead of data

U.S. stock index futures dropped on Tuesday after an unexpected fall in German business confidence rattled markets, as investors braced for reports on housing and consumer sentiment in the United States.
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Home Depot profit beats Street; outlook strong

Home Depot Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results as it benefited from its efforts to improve efficiency, prompting the top home improvement chain to forecast a fiscal-year profit above Wall Street estimates.
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Home prices seen stabilizing, sales rising

U.S. home prices probably stagnated in December, with the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city index showing no change after a 0.2 percent November decline and a total average price plunge of about 30 percent from 2006 peaks.
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Toyota vows quality shake-up

A top Toyota Motor Corp U.S. executive promised a quality shake-up on Tuesday as the Obama administration said it would hold the carmaker's head to a pledge to address safety issues after massive recalls.
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Buffett-backed BYD eyes big overseas drive

BYD Co Ltd, a Chinese car and battery maker founded by China's wealthiest man and backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, aims to boost its car exports this year as it feeds what it hopes will be improving demand in a recovering global economy.

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