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Dow industrials climb to new record
Stocks finished Thursdayâ?Ts seesaw session with modest gains, but the Dow
Jones industrial average finished the session at another record high.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
Starbucks to double North American stores
Starbucks Corp. on Thursday raised its long-term expansion goal to 40,000
stores from 30,000 and said it was nowhere close to exhausting opportunities in
North America, even as possibilities appear internationally.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15143850/
Steelworkers strike against Goodyear
Workers at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants in 10 states and Canada went on
strike Thursday after the worldâ?Ts third largest tire maker and the
steelworkers union failed to agree on a new labor contract.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15143533/
Wal-Mart to expand drug program
Wal-Mart announced Thursday that it will sell select generic prescription drugs
at a sharply reduced price in all of Florida, nearly four months earlier than
expected.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15142053/
Mortgage rates hits seven-month low
Rates on 30-year mortgages edged down this week to a seven-month low.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7148582/
Dunn agrees to surrender to authorities
Ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn agreed to surrender to
authorities Thursday, a day after she and four others were charged in HPâ?Ts
ill-fated investigation to ferret out the source of boardroom leaks.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15129655/
CEOs predict bleak economic future
A joint study by the Business Council and the Conference Board found that 45.6
percent of top CEOs forecast economic conditions to get worse over the next six
months, while 41.2 percent believe conditions will improve.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15145199/
Ex-HP CEO Fiorina also ordered probes
Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina ordered the first of a
series of leak investigations into contacts by board members with journalists
in January 2005, Fiorina says in her memoir, The New York Times reported on
Thursday.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15140236/
Retailers report strong September gains
Shoppers, encouraged by cooler temperatures and falling gasoline prices, went
on a shopping spree in September, giving many retailers better-than-expected
gains and lifting the industryâ?Ts spirits two months before the holiday
season. A notable exception was Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15139478/
Tribune Co. fires L.A. Times publisher
Los Angeles Times Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson was forced out Thursday, a month
after he defied the conglomerateâ?Ts demands for what he considered potentially
damaging staff cuts.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15144356/
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