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S&P 500 sets all-time closing high [video chat]
NEW YORK -- The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index broke a half-decade-old record, another sign of stocks' continuing rally this year. The S&P 500 added 6.34 points, or 0.41%, to 1,569.19 Thursday, the last trading day of the first quarter. The S&P 500...
Tags: Credit Ratings, Stock Market, Fiscal Cliff, S&P 500, Economy, Business and Finance
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Jobless rate hits new record in Eurozone
LONDON -- Joblessness in the 17-nation Eurozone hit a record high in January and February, according to statistics released Tuesday that gave a grim snapshot of the region’s continued economic malaise. The unemployment rate rose to 12% in the...
Tags: Employment, Employment Opportunities, European Union, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Labor Markets
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S&P 500 trades above all-time closing high
NEW YORK -- The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index burst through a half-decade-old record as stocks continued their strong rally. The broad S&P index is on track to finish the day above its all-time closing high of 1,565.15 recorded Oct. 9, 2007....
Tags: Stock Market, Fiscal Cliff, S&P 500, Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance
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China's top airlines say profits fell sharply in 2012
China's three major state-owned airlines reported steep drops in annual profit last year, citing the weak global economy, higher jet fuel prices and smaller foreign currency gains. China Southern, the country's largest carrier, said Wednesday that...
Tags: China, Air Transportation Industry, Money and Monetary Policy
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Cyprus wakes to bailout hangover
This post has been updated and corrected. See the notes below and at the bottom for details.ATHENS -- Defending a last-resort deal with international lenders, bleary-eyed officials on Cyprus said Monday that they had managed to avert a devastating default for the tiny Mediterranean nation and kept it from being forced out of Europe's single-...Tags: European Union, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Banking, Nicosia (Cyprus), Economy, Business and Finance
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Good news for Valley auto dealers
Of The Morning CallHealthy turnout at this weekend's Lehigh Valley Auto Show is good news for local auto dealers ... A last-minute deal averts a debt crisis in Cyprus, but is the euro still in trouble? ... Computer-maker Dell Inc. is subject of a bidding war that pits its...Tags: Lehigh County, Powerball Lottery, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dell Inc., Lotteries
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Cyprus locked in tense talks with international lenders
ATHENS -- Officials from Cyprus and international lenders were locked in long and tortuous talks Sunday, trying to strike a deal on a rescue plan that would keep the island’s failing banks from collapsing while maintaining membership in Europe&...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, European Union, Nicosia (Cyprus), Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Bankruptcy
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Congress works on budget for both 2013 and future
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the long-underway 2013 budget year with a bipartisan government-wide funding bill, even as the combatants in the House and Senate gear up for votes this week on...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Politics, Parties and Movements, Elections, White House
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Cyprus lawmakers delay emergency vote on bank-deposit tax
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ATHENS -- Lawmakers in Cyprus are scheduled to hold an emergency vote Monday on whether savers on the Mediterranean island will pay a levy of up to nearly 10% on bank deposits as part of a controversial international bailout plan that has enraged...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Politics, Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Cyprus
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Cyprus shuts banks through Thursday amid fears of widening crisis
ATHENS — Amid renewed fears of a widening economic crisis in Europe, Cyprus on Monday ordered its banks shut through Thursday, postponing for a second time in two days a crucial parliamentary debate on whether bank depositors on the Mediterranean...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Germany, Politics, European Union, Elections
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Cyprus deposit tax rattles markets throughout the world
LONDON (AP) — Stocks around the world fell sharply Monday as investors gave their initial verdict to a weekend plan to tax depositors in Cypriot banks as part of a bailout of the Mediterranean island nation. Though Cyprus only accounts for...
Tags: DAX, Germany, Politics, Japan, European Union
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U.S. economy grew late last year, but barely
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy barely grew late last year, thanks largely to a plunge in federal defense spending that in part was likely preparation for the budget cuts under the so-called sequestration. The nation's gross domestic product, or the...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Ben Bernanke, Gross Domestic Product, U.S. Congress, Land Price
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