For the third year in a row Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has set a record for passenger traffic. Gov. Martin O’Malley said Tuesday that more than 22.6 million passengers used the airport in 2012. That’s an increase of 1.3 ...

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NEW YORK — If you don’t like coffee or tea, Mountain Dew has a new breakfast drink that might perk you up. PepsiCo Inc. is rolling out a new drink called Kickstart this month that has Mountain Dew flavor but ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in December because exports rose while oil imports plummeted. The smaller trade gap means the economy almost surely grew in the October-December quarter — an improvement from the government’s estimate last week ...

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Exelon Corp., the parent of Constellation and BGE and the nation’s largest supplier of wholesale electric power, will cut its quarterly dividend for the first time as falling electricity prices and expiring long-term contracts reduce profit. Cutting the payment to ...

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NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp., the country’s third largest wireless carrier, on Thursday said it lost $1.3 billion in its fourth quarter, about the same as a year ago, as it revamped its network for a comeback versus bigger ...

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WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, indicating companies continue to hire at a modest but steady pace. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 366,000. The four-week ...

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NEW YORK — Sometimes, the devil is in the deals. Americans shopped the winter clearance racks in January, resulting in strong sales during the month for retailers. But spending is expected to slow as the deals dry up heading into ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. worker productivity shrank in the final three months of 2012 although the decline was caused by temporary factors. Productivity contracted at an annual rate of 2 percent in the October-December quarter, the biggest drop since the first ...

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker Hasbro Inc. announced Wednesday. The results were ...

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Buoyed once again by election-year advertising, Hunt Valley-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. reported higher revenues and earnings on Wednesday for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012.

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