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Today's Business Headlines - Market Close from MSNBC.com
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Market Closing Prices
Dow: 9,380.24 +67.16
NASDAQ: 1,824.56 +32.49
S&P: 1,006.58 +9.73
AMEX: 988.93 +2.66
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Stocks edge higher
Stocks drifted higher in end-of-the-quarter trading Monday, with investors picking up
shares on upbeat news about consumer spending.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/158521.asp
SEC seeks Enron documents
The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal judge on Monday to force
Kenneth L. Lay, the former head of Enron Corp., to turn over documents the agency is
seeking in its investigation of the business practices that led to one of the largest
corp
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973404.asp
SEC proposes new hedge fund rules
The SEC Monday recommended a range of new rules for hedge funds, a class of loosely
regulated investment pools popular with investment institutions and the rich.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973333.asp
FCC to enforce do-not-call rule
FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Monday his agency will enforce the penalties because
the Federal Trade Commission is prevented from doing so because of a federal judge's
order.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973319.asp
Long live the bottom line
More than two years into one of the industry's longest and deepest valleys, tech
companies have succumbed to financial realities and taken the ax to their once sacred
research and development units.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973433.asp
Slow job market will dog IT industry
The first possible chance for significant job growth in the local technology field
will not come before mid-2004, according to the study conducted on behalf of work
force development agency O-Force.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973435.asp
Consumer spending still strong
America's consumers ratcheted up their spending by a strong 0.8 percent in August,
helping to power an economic resurgence.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973296.asp
Kozlowski, Quattrone trials to begin
A pair of high-profile criminal trials that throw the spotlight on the spate of
financial scandals that have swept Wall Street and corporate America got underway
Monday in Manhattan.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973290.asp
NYSE reform first, then the board
John S. Reed, temporarily leading the embattled New York Stock Exchange, insisted on
his first day in the job Monday that the exchange should be reformed before the makeup
of its board is changed.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/973398.asp
Fit leaders are more effective leaders
The fittest thrive in the Darwinian competition of business, researchers say. They
mean the physically fittest.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/971780.asp
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