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Progress Crystal River Fla. reactor at full power

NEW YORK - Progress Energy Inc's (PGN.N) 838-megawatt Crystal River 3 nuclear power unit in Florida was back at full power early Friday, up from 77 percent of capacity late Thursday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in its power reactor status report.

BofA now servicing 180,000 TBW accounts

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NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) said it has completed the previously announced transfer of 180,000 Ginnie Mae-backed mortgages from Taylor, Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp to the bank's home loan servicing business.

Texas, Fla banks seek IPOs to pay off TARP

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Two Sunbelt banks filed for initial public offerings on Wednesday to raise money that would be used in part to pay off money owed to the U.S. Treasury, setting the stage for the first U.S. IPOs by banks in more than two years.
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Colonial BancGroup files Chapter 11

Colonial BancGroup Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, 11 days after regulators seized its banking operations and sold most of those assets to BB&T Corp .
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Los Lonely Boys to release

It was well before any of the three Garza brothers was born, but the magical music year of 1969 still contained
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Commercial: Has Time Run Out?

Sales of tenant-in-common interests have plummeted, but don't count the securitized real estate industry out just yet.
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U.S. home lender Taylor Bean files for bankruptcy

Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it may liquidate, three weeks after it closed its mortgage lending business and was suspended by a federal agency.
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Vitacost.com sets price range for $132 mln IPO

On-line health supplement retailer and manufacturer Vitacost.com set the estimated price range on Monday for shares in its planned initial public offering, a sign that its stock flotation could be imminent.
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U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security

Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.
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Payment-card industry grapples with security

Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.
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AutoNation ends cash for clunker sales early: report

AutoNation Inc, the largest U.S. chain of auto dealers, decided to end its cash for clunkers rebates as of Friday night, three days ahead of the government's Monday deadline, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Swimwear styles

A model shows a swimwear from the collection Australian designer Zimmermann during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show in Miami Beach July 14, 2007.
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How I Sold It: The eBay Cure

The Halstead Hospital and Hertzler Clinic had seen better days when Andrea Cavgalar got the listing in November 2005. Once the heart and soul of a quaint Kansas town, the medical facility had fallen on hard times and poor management had led to bankruptcy and massive job losses.
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U.S. starts long, gradual and fragile recovery

The U.S. economy is recovering more strongly than expected from its worst recession in decades, but next year will be lackluster and risks of a double-dip downturn remain, economists said in a Reuters poll.
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BBVA expected to win Guaranty auction: sources

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria , Spain's second-largest bank, is expected to win a government-run auction of troubled Texas lender Guaranty Financial Group Inc , sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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Bear Stearns exec ignored conflict warnings: government

A former Bear Stearns Cos hedge fund manager facing an insider trading charge routinely ignored warnings of potential conflicts of interest, and was rebuffed when he tried to pledge some money toward a loan to build a luxury Florida condominium, prosecutors said.
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Cost cuts help Home Depot beat estimates

Home Depot Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its full-year forecast after cost cuts kicked in and sales improved in areas that had been hard hit by the U.S. housing downturn.
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U.S. says targeting 150 UBS clients for tax evasion

The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of Swiss bank UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information.

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