WASHINGTON — The sluggish job market is weighing on the U.S. economy three years after the Great Recession ended and it doesn’t look to be getting much better any time soon. A measure of the number of people applying for ...

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NEW YORK — The Nasdaq stock exchange said Wednesday that it plans to hand out $40 million in cash and credit to reimburse investment firms that got ensnared by technical problems with trading Facebook stock. FINRA, the financial industry’s self-regulatory ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook’s stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month. The stock fell $2.40, or nearly 8 percent, to $29.40 in midday trading on Tuesday. That’s down 23 percent since ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook’s initial public offering could be one of the largest in history if its stock prices at the high end of its expected range on Thursday. Facebook Inc. will likely price its IPO late Thursday, meaning that ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook’s reach is wide but not deep, an Associated Press-CNBC poll suggests. More than 40 percent of American adults log in to the site — to share news, personal observations, photos and more — at least once ...

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The Dolan Company, parent of The Daily Record, saw a decrease in both profit and revenue in the first quarter of 2012, compared to the corresponding time last year. The company on Tuesday reported net income attributable to The Dolan ...

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NEW YORK — Apple, already the world’s most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday. Only one other company has been worth $600 billion — Apple’s old sparring partner Microsoft Corp. It reached that valuation ...

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WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought civil fraud charges against six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying they misled the government and taxpayers about risky subprime mortgages the mortgage giants held during the ...

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NEW YORK — Strong earnings from FedEx and a sharp drop in claims for unemployment benefits pushed stocks mostly higher in midday trading Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 100 points, or 0.9 percent, to 11,923 shortly after noon ...

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NEW YORK — Thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators took to the streets around the U.S. on Thursday to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they aren’t ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their ...

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