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MARKET SNAPSHOT: Apple, Caterpillar: Shocked Stocks Get New Test

Apple Inc. and Caterpillar Inc. Continue reading

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Lindsay Lohan — Sober Coachella … Mission Accomplished

Lindsay Lohan stuck to her guns this weekend at Coachella … telling TMZ, she followed through on her promise NOT to take a sip of booze the entire weekend — AND WHY WOULD SHE LIE????Lindsay was out in Malibu earlier today when we asked if she… Continue reading

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Panama Canal rail traffic hit by computer glitch

Thousands of containers have been stuck at Panamanian ports after a computer glitch hampered communication with the railway, causing significant delays, officials said on Friday. Continue reading

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In Silicon Valley, rich get richer and poor get poorer

On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping an eviction notice to her flimsy, flapping shelter walls. Continue reading

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MARKET COMMENT: Singapore’s STI +0.1%; Earnings Results Eyed

0209 GMT [Dow Jones] Singapore’s STI is treading water, edging up 0.1% to 3285.35, but remaining stuck in its recent tight range. Continue reading

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Sharp posts Q3 profit, on course to clear earnings hurdle

TOKYO (Reuters) – Sharp Corp eked out a quarterly operating profit on Friday, improving the bailed-out consumer electronics maker's chances of convincing lenders and shareholders that it remains a viable company. Sharp stuck to its forecast for a 13.8 billion yen ($151 million) operating profit in the second half, after losing 168.9 billion yen in the first half as the maker of goods from airconditioners to televisions was savaged by lower-cost rivals. .. Continue reading

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You Will Not Be Able to Stop Watching Vinepeek

You might not be sold on Twitter’s new short video app Vine, but we challenge you to try and stop watching Vinepeek. You won’t. You’ll be stuck for 20 minutes before mustering the will power to look away.  Continue reading

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Orca pod trapped in ice in Canada’s Hudson Bay

A group of killer whales in danger after getting stuck in Hudson Bay off Quebec. Continue reading

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Old lead factories may stick taxpayers with cleanup costs

Taxpayers, homeowners stuck with bills to clean up contamination at old lead factories. Continue reading

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At China party congress, allegiance trumps reform

BEIJING (Reuters) – As the senior Communist Party official in one of China's most prosperous regions, Wang Yang is often cast as an agent of change, a potential force for economic and even political reform should he gain promotion to the party's highest rung later this week. But the chief of the southern province of Guangdong appears to be distancing himself from that role while attending the party congress that will usher in China's once-in-a-decade top leadership transition. When Wang spoke to reporters on Friday, he stuck to a well rehearsed script that could have come from any apparatchik Continue reading

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