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Stocks end positive week slightly higher
Stocks finished Friday with slim gains, closing a positive week for the
market�?Ts main indices, as investors greeted a fourth straight decline in oil
prices, but worried about the health of the economy after a disappointing
report on job creation.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
Employers add fewer jobs than expected
U.S. employers pulled back on hiring as they entered the holiday shopping
season, adding just 112,000 new jobs overall in November. It was the weakest
gain in five months and about half of what economists had forecast.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6643577/
Oil prices end week 14 percent lower
Crude oil futures sank for a fourth straight day Friday, settling beneath $43 a
barrel for the first time in nearly three months and capping a 14 percent
decline for the week.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5612507/
BBC admits Dow interview was a hoax
BBC World said on Friday that an interview it ran with a man it identified as a
spokesman for Dow Chemical Co, in which he said the U.S. company accepted
responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster, was wrong and part of an "elaborate
deception".
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6643459/
Wine drinkers defiant about bans
Wine lovers who live in the 24 states that won't allow direct shipments of
their favorite are angry. Otherwise mild-mannered citizens are willing to flout
the law in what some see as defiance of Prohibition writ small.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6622762/
Sweet success for Splenda results in tight supply
The success of sugar substitute Splenda has forced the maker of its key
ingredient to withhold from taking on new customers until it has doubled
production.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6645297/
Organic food sales see healthy growth
While the food market overall is producing an unappetizing 2 to 3 percent
growth rate year-to-year,� the organic food industry has savored several years
of 17 to 20 percent growth.� �?" By CNBC's Nanette Hansen
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6638417/
IBM reportedly selling PC business
IBM reportedly puts its PC business up for sale in an era-ending deal that
could fetch as much as $2 billion.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6643423/
Supreme Court to hear cable Internet case
The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether Internet providers
should be allowed to sell their high-speed service over the cable television
system.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6645391/
Ex-NYSE director Langone sued for $1.8 billion
A Florida businessman has sued ex-NYSE � director Kenneth Langone for $1.8
billion, claiming he made false statements about data management company
Seisint in hopes that ChoicePoint Inc. could buy it for a low price.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6645104/
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