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Stocks start December with a bang
Stocks started off the month of December modestly higher Monday, as investors bought
stocks amid indications of a strong start to the all-important holiday shopping season.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/534548.asp
Boeing CEO quits amid ethics flaps
Boeing Co. chairman and chief executive Phil Condit resigned unexpectedly, a week
after the aerospace manufacturer fired two top executives over an alleged ethics
breach.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999755.asp
Roy Disney quits Disney board
Disney vice chairman Roy E. Disney - the last family member active in the media giant
- has resigned from its board of directors, the company said Sunday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999674.asp
Bush urged to drop steel tariffs
Top White House advisers are recommending that President Bush roll back steep tariffs
on foreign-made steel to avoid a global trade war, administration and industry
officials said Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999863.asp
Manufacturing sector strengthens
The nation's manufacturing sector grew strongly in November, with the fifth
consecutive monthly rise boding well for the overall economy in the final quarter of
the year.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999799.asp
Construction spending sets record
Construction spending in October registered its best month on record, an encouraging
sign for the economic recovery's staying power.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999794.asp
Early holiday sales seen as solid
Americans scoured the malls for bargains this weekend as retailers added up what
looked to be a solid, if unspectacular, start to the holiday shopping season.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/998943.asp
New Quattrone trial set for March 22
Frank Quattrone's second criminal trial is set to begin March 22, after a jury was
unable to decide if the ex-financier broke the law when he ordered the destruction of
banking records.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999906.asp
Daimler-Benz accused of fraud
Daimler-Benz executives engaged in "plain, old fashioned fraud" during merger talks
with Chrysler five years ago, an attorney representing Kirk Kerkorian told a federal
judge Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999927.asp
Home prices jump in 3rd quarter
U.S. average home prices rose 5.61 percent in the third quarter as the broader economy
catches up with the robust housing market, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight said Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/999849.asp
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