NEW YORK — Two companies with quirky names, Ubiquiti Networks and Zeltiq Aesthetics, made their public debuts earlier this month with listings on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Each company’s stock went up modestly on the first day of trading. Ubiquiti ...

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NEW YORK — Stocks opened the week lower Monday after the German government played down hopes that a solution to Europe’s debt crisis was imminent. Expectations that a resolution to the crisis could be reached at a European summit in ...

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NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc.’s earnings rose 74 percent in the third quarter as more of its customers paid their bills on time, leading to lower losses from loans. An accounting gain also boosted income. The profit report came as ...

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NEW YORK — A Wall Street trader convicted in a massive probe of insider trading at hedge funds has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Michael Kimelman was convicted in June of conspiracy to trade on confidential information. The ...

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NEW YORK — Stocks rose sharply Monday after the leaders of France and Germany promised to strengthen Europe’s banks. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 250 points, led by Bank of America. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French ...

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NEW YORK — Oil prices are rising after a burst of hiring in the U.S. calmed fears of a new recession. Benchmark crude rose 60 cents to $83.19 per barrel in New York on Friday, while Brent crude lost 9 ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Buffeted by foreign competition, then blindsided by a digital revolution, photography icon Eastman Kodak Co. is fighting for survival after a quarter-century of failed efforts to find its focus. The 131-year-old company that turned picture-taking into a ...

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Supporters of a group called Occupy Baltimore are protesting U.S. economic conditions. They gathered peacefully Tuesday at the Inner Harbor, holding signs reading “People Before Profits” and “We’re Here for the Needy, not the Greedy.” Demonstrators stood quietly amid lunchtime ...

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NEW YORK — Bank of America’s homepage and online banking service were still experiencing problems Friday afternoon, after the bank said a slowdown and other issues had been fully resolved. A message on the homepage said that page was temporarily unavailable, ...

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Hollywood Casino Perryville is one year old — well, one year and four days old — and those 12 months of slot machine gambling in Maryland left me with too much material to shoe-horn into Friday’s story on how the ...

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