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Meg Whitman gives her concession speech during her election night rally in Los Angeles

HP’s Whitman: Could She Be Romney Dark Horse VP Pick?

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been winnowing his picks for Vice President in private, with most handicappers suggesting nominees who’ve held public office. How about Margaret (Meg) Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), one of his fondest supporters?
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Curiosity On Mars: More Than Intel Inside

Investors may not know that many of their technology companies played a huge part in the system design, software, features and functions. They include Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Siemens Corp. (NYSE: SI) and General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD).
There's one developing story in the saga of Knight Capital, the Wall Street market-maker that lost over $440 million Wednesday when an automated trading computer program it had just installed went berserk, that's not being talked about: the firm

Knight Capital Being Saved By Very People It Tried to Screw Over

There's one developing storyline in the saga of Knight Capital Group Inc., the Wall Street market maker that lost more than $440 million Wednesday when an automated trading program it had just installed went berserk, that's not being talked about: It is being propped up by the very people it tried to screw over.
Comparison of ADP Employment Report 'surprise' against economist estimates and level of divergence between consensus and Labor Department data shows ADP report is a bad forecaster of government data

Positive Employment Report Data Nothing To Cheer About

The ADP employment report out Wednesday morning seemed to have a bit for everyone, with both optimists and pessimists claiming the data release supported their views. A slightly more nuanced view of the data seems to hand the case to the bears
People wait to enter a government job centre in Malaga, southern Spain January 27, 2012. Spain's unemployment rate rose to 22.9 percent in the fourth quarter of this year, passing the five million mark, data from the National Statistics Institute sho

With Euro Zone Joblessness Sky High, Its Survival Is At Risk: Analyst

The number of unemployed people across all 17 euro zone countries soared 11.2 percent to 17.8 million in June -- up 1 percentage point from the year before, Eurostat, the European Union's statistical agency, reported Tuesday. Euro zone unemployment among people younger than 25 rose to 22.4 percent.

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