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ANALYST: Pickup Truck Sales Are Confirming US Small Business Confidence
ConvergEx Group chief market strategist Nick Colas believes the rise in sales of pickup trucks in the U.S. is one of the most important charts of the year."Demand for these vehicles is as pure a...
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A Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Be 'A Complete Catastrophe'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, U.S. officials have pointed to the improvements in the everyday lives of Afghans made possible by billions of dollars in aid from the United States and elsewhere.In...
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What It Takes To Be A Special Effects Engineer
Sanjay Bakshi has spent a lot of time with monsters. He knows precisely how their hair moves as they terrorise humans, how their eyeballs swivel when they sight their prey, and how their fangs gnash...
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Egypt's Former Ruling Party Is Now A 'Terrorist Organization'
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a...
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If You Want A Job At Twitter, Prepare To Answer This Baffling Question About...
Michael Kozakov is a computer science student at the University of Toronto, and he has also interned at Amazon. But a few weeks ago, he also applied to work at Twitter.Luckily for us, he wrote a blog...
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Head Of Japan's Second Largest Bank Stepping Down Over Mob Loans Scandal
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group <8411.T> chairman Takashi Tsukamoto will quit in March to take responsibility for a scandal over loans to organized crime, and the bank will restructure...
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10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning!If you celebrated Christmas yesterday, we hope you had a wonderful holiday. If not, we hope you had a wonderful Wednesday.It's December 26th and there's only a few days left of 2013, but...
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Here's How Mechanical Hearts Work
Last week a French company installed the first artificial heart that is designed to replace a real heart by mimicking natural rhythms with biological materials and sensors.The new heart, installed by...
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US Markets Are Looking Up
U.S. stock market futures have been trading for a little over an hour, and they're pointing higher.Dow futures are up 46 points.S&P futures are up 3 points.Nasdaq futures are up 7 points.On...
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10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell (SPX, SPY, DIA, DJI, QQQ)
Good morning. Here's what you need to know.Markets in Asia were mixed in overnight trading. The Japanese Nikkei rose 1.0% and the Shanghai Composite fell 1.6%. European markets are closed. In the...
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29 Successful People Who Wake Up Really Early
It's no coincidence that so many successful people get up early.The early bird schedule is good for responding to people and events around the world, getting a head start on people in your own time...
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DEBT: The US Vs. China
Heightened volatility in China's short-term interest rates has some people worried if the world's second largest economy is doomed for a credit crisis.For a discussion on this, check out our Q&A...
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Teens In The UK Are Calling It: 'Facebook Is Dead And Buried'
This year marked the start of teenagers adopting other social networks instead of Facebook as their parents signed up for Zuckerberg's site in droves.In a European Union-funded study on social media,...
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Twitter Advertising Is Gaining Traction With Marketers
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SOCIAL INSIGHTS: Twitter Advertising Is Gaining Traction With Marketers
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This Chart Shows Which Industries Will Lose Jobs And And Which Industries...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with a new report today showing how employment will change in different industries.Not surprisingly, health care and social assistance sector will see the largest...
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China Is About To Open Its Skies To Private Aircraft
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ferraris and Rolls-Royces have become common sights in China's cities as a new class of super-rich indulge a growing appetite for luxury, but tight regulation has meant the private...
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Gold Smuggling Spikes In India As Tax Meets Bridal Season
Hike in Indian gold tax to fight trade imbalance squeezes wedding budgets, spurs smugglingMUMBAI, India (AP) — With India's wedding season in full swing, the glass sales counters in Mumbai's famed...
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The 'Joke' Digital Currency Dogecoin Is Actually A Really Big Deal
One of the big stories on Christmas day was the huge theft of over $6000 worth of Dogecoin.As soon as that news broke, we saw a bunch of people on Twitter asking: "What the hell is Dogecoin?"Basically,...
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Bahrain Court Acquits Princess On Trial For Torturing Doctors
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court has acquitted two police officers, including a Bahraini princess, who were on trial for torturing doctors while in detention during political turmoil in the Gulf Arab...
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