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Housing Data Add to Stock Rally

By DONNA KARDOS YESALAVICH Stocks moved higher Monday morning after data showed home resales jumped far more than expected in October, adding to the market's excitement over a statement from a Federal Reserve member that the...

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Remarks by the President on the "Education To Innovate" Campaign

11:46 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. I am extraordinarily excited to have you all here today. A couple of special acknowledgements I want to make -- first of all, two of my outstanding Cabinet members: Secretary Arne...

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges Obama action on trade

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama should look abroad for ways to boost jobs at home, the biggest U.S. business lobby group said on Monday, urging the administration to advance three pending free trade agreements.

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Grain futures close lower Monday

CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed lower on the Chicago Board of Trade Monday despite a weekend rally in oil prices and a strong opening to the week on Wall Street. Corn was off 3 3/4 to off 4 1/4, soybeans were off...

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Las Vegas' new CityCenter, a big gamble, prepares to open

By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY LAS VEGAS — Some of the world's top architects and designers have taken a fresh deck of cards and created a Xanadu on the Vegas Strip. Its lack of emphasis on gaming (only Aria has a casino),...

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Unified Communications is Migrating to ‘The Cloud’

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Unified communications is migrating to ‘the cloud’, as vendors begin positioning it as a service rather than a product, reports In-Stat. Infrastructure providers like Cisco, Broadsoft, and Microsoft are now...

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Is federal stimulus money being used for IT hardware, not hiring?

Info from recovery.gov doesn't show a lot of tech job creation Is federal stimulus money being used for IT hardware, not hiring? Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- As part of the economic recovery plan passed by Congress and signed...

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Office Market Martin Luthers

There’s a prevailing narrative in New York real estate, and it goes something like this: Lehman Brothers’ collapse sent the Manhattan office market into a horrifying and precipitous tailspin. Commercial tenants, fearing for...

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Philly real estate: 'Free fall' or 'digging out'?

The property panel at the Philadelphia edition of the Urban Land Institute conference spoke to a jammed hall upstairs at the Union League last week, maybe because nobody's out doing deals anymore. Highlights: "We have to go...

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Gold touches new high of $1,174 as dollar weakens

A weaker dollar carried gold prices to a new record Monday and also boosted silver and copper to their highest levels of the year. Gold for December delivery rose as high as $1,174 an ounce before settling at $1,164.70, up...

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