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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks ended higher Monday in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session, aided by flurry of deals which included Alcoa Inc.'s $2.7 billion sale of its packaging and consumer businesses.
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Maxjet Airways, one of the new breed of business class long-haul airlines, collapsed into bankruptcy on Christmas Eve, stranding hundreds of passengers in the middle of transatlantic holiday journeys
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Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are paid days off for 4,300 Santa Barbara County workers as a thank-you for agreeing to concessions in the latest contract deal. Without comment earlier this month, the Board of Supervisors quietly slipped in the two...
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Today we're casting our gaze further and covering a fortnight. It's Christmas Eve and the London Stock Exchange will close early, while many other international markets are closed completely. These include Japan, where they are marking the Emperor's birthday, which fell yesterday, with a public holiday. The NYSE, which is open today, will take a day off tomorrow, along with the LSE and almost every other major world market ? the exception is that Japan returns to work.