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Mining firms drag down South African stocks

Resources firms such as Exxaro led South African stocks lower on Thursday as miners took a knock after weak data from China and disappointing earnings from the United States.

France Counts Down the Days for Bruni-Sarkozy Baby

Carla Bruni Makes First Public Appearance Since her Pregnancy
France's first lady Carla Bruni is expected to give birth in the coming days, keeping French media on tenterhooks before an event that could offer President Nicolas Sarkozy a welcome respite from non-stop political headwinds.
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American Airlines sees Q4 capacity down

American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp , said its fourth-quarter mainline capacity will dip 3 percent due to an adjustment in its late fall and winter schedule and that it will retire up to 11 Boeing 757 aircraft in 2012.
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Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down Prompted by New Wiretap Act

Wikipedia's Italian edition homepage has been shut down following the prospect of a new wiretap law from Italy's Prime Minister, forcing the Italian language Web site to be hidden with the possibility of being eventually deleted.
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SAIC CEO to retire next year, shares down

SAIC Inc , a provider of technical services to the U.S. Defense and Homeland Security departments whose results been bruised by contract delays, said its chief executive would retire next year for personal reasons, and its shares fell about 2 percent.
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ALMA Gets Down to Business, Releases First Image

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, is now open for astronomers, and the first picture from the under-construction telescope has also been released.
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Cracking Down on Job-Candidate Credit Checks

Last week, the California legislature sent the governor a bill that would ban most employers from running credit checks on job applicants. If the governor signs the bill into law (which this web site tells us he’s likely to), California will become the biggest get yet for those pushing for such laws around the nation. Is this just what a country full of unemployed people with wrecked credit needs? Or is it, as HR managers have been hollering, a way of hindering them from finding good, upstandin...
Apple down on report of iPad supply slowdown

Apple Down on Report of iPad Supply Slowdown

Apple Inc shares pared some of its losses after it fell over 3 percent in early trading on Monday following an analyst report that said the company was cutting orders from suppliers of parts for its iPad tablet.
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Apple down on report of iPad supply slowdown

Apple Inc shares pared some of its losses after it fell over 3 percent in early trading on Monday following an analyst report that said the company was cutting orders from suppliers of parts for its iPad tablet.
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DJIA in Worst Fall Since Depth of '08 Crisis

The Dow Jones industrial average on Friday suffered its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, stung by severe anxiety over Europe's spiraling debt crisis and a warning from the Federal Reserve about the U.S. economy.
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Gold Falls Hard; Silver Falls Harder

Gold prices plummeted Friday, at one point tumbling to 15 percent below the level of three weeks ago, as investors started buying stocks and, to a lesser extent, euros. Silver is now down 25 percent from its mid-week level.
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Exclusive: Watchdog backs down on commodities rules

The U.S. futures regulator has yielded on several contentious parts of a plan to crack down on commodity speculation, marking a modest victory for banks and traders who have lobbied to limit increased market oversight.
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Wall Street set for third down day on recession fears

Wall Street was set for a sharply lower open and its third straight down day on Thursday as a grim outlook from the Federal Reserve and downbeat data in Europe and China heightened fears about a global recession.

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