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Gloomy jobs report sinks blue chips
Investors sold off shares Friday, after the Labor Department reported anemic job
growth in December, suggesting that the economic recovery still isn't producing
significant employment opportunities.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
Jobless rate slips, payrolls still weak
The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 5.7 percent in December, but labor markets
were cold at the outset of winter as companies added only 1,000 new jobs in an anemic
holiday-hiring performance.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3916152/
Americans' beef habits hard to change
American consumers continue to buy and eat beef despite the recent mad cow scare that
hit on U.S. shores. By MSNBC's Jon Bonne.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3900341/
Enron's Lea Fastow headed for trial
A judge said Friday that the wife of former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow would go
to trial as planned after a noon deadline for her to accept the judge's conditions on
a plea deal passed with no word from her attorneys.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3915783/
Jury awards $20M to smoker's widow
A New York jury on Friday ordered cigarette maker Brown & Williamson to pay $8 million
in punitive damages for the smoking-related injuries of a deceased man, and ordered
two tobacco trade groups to pay $6 million each.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3918800/
FT: New York's leading ladies
Women hold the top real estate positions in New York and clearly dominate the city's
multibillion dollar business.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3918921/
Oil hits fresh post-war highs on U.S. cold
World oil prices rose to fresh post-Iraq war highs on Friday, driven by fears Arctic
weather in the United States will eat into crude stocks that are already at their
lowest since 1975.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3915798/
Dollar falls to new record low vs. euro
The dollar fell to a record low against the euro on Friday following a shockingly
weaker than expected report showing U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by only 1,000 jobs
in December.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3917417/
NYMEX trading hits record in 2003
>From gold to copper to heating oil, futures trading on the New York Mercantile
>Exchange set a record in 2003 as prices of many raw materials hit multi-year highs.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3916819/
Parmalat Venezuela chief returns to Italy
A top Parmalat official wanted by police investigating the multibillion dollar fraud
scandal at the Italian food and dairy giant returned to Italy from Venezuela on
Friday. Separately, police searched the offices of Bank of America in Milan.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3916260/
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