The economy trudges ahead yet debt dogs many Americans, stressing them out even as they firm up their own financial foundations.
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Movie audiences are showing more appetite for Shrek than for sex over Memorial Day weekend. DreamWorks Animation’s sequel “Shrek Forever After” remained the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $43.3 million from Friday to Sunday.
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Cell phone companies are about to barrage consumers with advertising for the next advance in wireless network technology: “4G” access. The companies are promising faster speeds and the thrill of being the first on the block to use a new acronym.
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British Airways cabin crew launched a new five-day strike Sunday as a bitter dispute with management over pay and working conditions dragged on with no sign of any breakthrough.
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Bangladesh has blocked the social networking website Facebook over a page urging people to draw images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, joining Pakistan to become the second South Asian nation to ban the popular site over religious concerns.
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BP’s attempt to plug the Gulf oil leak with mud and cement has failed, yet another setback in the company’s attempt to stop the crude from further fouling waters, wildlife and marshland.
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Wal-Mart is counting on $1 ketchup bottles and sub-$4 cases of Coke to get its low-price mojo back. The sharp cuts at its U.S. Walmart stores, which came ahead of Memorial Day weekend, have already pushed rivals such as Target into price wars.
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Dubai will ride out its latest financial troubles without a federal bailout for another major investment company seeking postponement of debt repayments, the Emirates’ finance chief said Saturday after the request raised new concerns about the city-state’s credit woes.
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Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida and one each in Nevada and California, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 78.
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Morgan Stanley is raising the base salary of its chairman, John Mack, to $2 million, more than twice the salary he earned last year when he also served as the bank’s CEO.
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