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For Black Friday, it's HDTVs and diapers

Retailers pushing deals on necessities for the practical-minded shopper In this file photo, shoppers check out Black Friday early bird specials at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. The traditional holiday shopping...

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Stores Look To Basics To Draw In Holiday Shoppers

Black Friday In More Practical Times: Stores Mark Down The Socks Along With The HDTVs (AP) NEW YORK (AP) - As stores prepare for hordes of Black Friday shoppers and mark down high-definition TVs and hot toys, they're also...

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Stocks Edge Higher

By DONNA KARDOS YESALAVICH Stocks were slightly higher in early trading Wednesday, as an unexpected drop in durable goods orders largely offset bigger-than-expected rises in consumer spending and personal income last month...

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Can Google Wave replace email?

Posted by Jessi Hempel, writer Electronic mail is so 1996. Google is attempting to solve this program with a new service called Google Wave. Here's how Google says Wave works: You create a wave and add people to it. That may be...

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Banking Nerves Could Boost Euro

BY KATIE MARTIN LONDON -- Europe's banks are entering a tough patch. Heading the list is WestLB, which was forced into a government rescue plan this week to save it from possible insolvency. Then there's a whole list of Greek...

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U.K. Banks Win Overdraft Ruling

BY MARGOT PATRICK LONDON -- Some of the U.K.'s biggest banks, including state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and Lloyds Banking Group PLC, and Banco Santander SA's Abbey National, will continue to be allowed to set...

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications By Rachael King At first, just a handful of employees at Sanmina-SCI for tasks like...

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Futures Rise Ahead of Jobless Data

By POLYA LESOVA U.S. stock-index futures tracked overseas gains Wednesday as investors geared up for jobless claims and durable goods data ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The U.S. is expected to draw on positive sentiment...

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ABN Amro Posts Net Loss

ABN Amro, which is jointly owned by RBS, Santander and the Dutch government, reported a third-quarter net loss and reiterated that it expects to separate its RBS businesses in the first-quarter of next year.

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FACTBOX-Top 10 Global IPOs of 2009

Singapore's CapitaMalls Asia shares debuted 8.5 percent higher as the city state's biggest public offering in 16 years raised $2.02 billion for parent CapitaLand Southeast Asia's biggest developer. Companies in Asia are leading...

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