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Market Closing Prices
Dow: 9,809.79 -47.18
NASDAQ: 1,970.74 -5.63
S&P: 1,053.21 -4.84
AMEX: 1,066.70 +1.50
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Stocks slip despite upbeat data
Stocks closed Friday with modest losses despite an upbeat employment report for
October, as investors wondered whether share prices are getting too high.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/158521.asp
U.S. economy keeps adding jobs
The U.S. jobs market continued to show improvement in October, as companies boosted
their payrolls by a larger-than-expected 126,000 positions, and the unemployment rate
fell to 6 percent, the government reported Friday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990515.asp
'Simpsons' evolves as an industry
You thought it was just a TV show? With original shows in production, several reruns a
day in syndication and thousand of licensed items, "The Simpsons" is an industry unto
itself. MSNBC's Jon Bonne reports.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990303.asp
House-hunting on $1 million budget
CNBC toured the country to find out what the million-dollar real estate market looks
like in other cites.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990592.asp
Telemedicine takes off
A new medical technology called "telemedicine" is taking off thanks to a new
generation of heart implants that notify a doctor with their patient is in trouble. By
Hampton Pearson and Steve Lewis.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/987476.asp
Lay agrees to turn over documents
Ex-Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay Friday agreed to turn over, within three days, all
documents required by a Securities and Exchange Commission subpoena he had previously
tried to withhold.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990585.asp
Lea Fastow reportedly in plea talks
The wife of former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow is negotiating a plea
bargain with prosecutors, a newspaper reported Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990553.asp
An animal twist to the Yukos probe
Already scrutinized by a criminal probe, Russian oil firm Yukos is now facing new
accusations that it let rabbits mate without supervision and mistreated pigs.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990641.asp
Time Warner questions EMI deal
Time Warner Inc. is debating whether to go ahead with a music merger with EMI Group
after an announcement that Sony and BMG are merging their music labels, The New York
Post reported Friday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990511.asp
Alliance Capital under funds probe
Alliance Capital confirmed that federal regulators intend to take civil action against
the money management firm's mutual fund operations - the same operations New York
state regulators are expected to charge next week over improper fund trading.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/990514.asp
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