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SACRAMENTO - Ford Motor Co. today agreed to settle class-action lawsuits covering plaintiffs in four states who claimed its Explorer sport-utility vehicles were prone to rollovers, the company and an attorney for the plaintiffs said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow Jones industrial average notched its biggest percentage gain in four and a half years on Wednesday, after comments by the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve raised expectations for an interest rate cut in December.
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Feds had claimed documents related to giving telecom companies retroactive immunity from spying-related lawsuits couldn't be ready until December 31, but a judge disagreed.
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The PC maker bought the small audio streaming company in August and recently applied to trademark the name of an online portal. What does Dell have up its sleeve?
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NEW Zealand's competition watchdog has begun an investigation into claims that airlines, including Qantas, were involved in price-fixing air cargo fuel surcharges.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street barreled higher Wednesday for the second day in a row, giving the Dow Jones industrial average its biggest two-day point gain in five years after a Federal Reserve official hinted that the central bank may lower interest rates again.
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Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday ended an era of litigation over its rollover-plagued Explorer sport utility vehicles when it agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit covering plaintiffs in four states.
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At last, we have the beginnings of a cure for the credit crunch - though it could cause plenty of pain in the short run.
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Three executives and one director of Phoenix-based First Solar Inc. sold more than 140,000 shares of company stock worth $30.4 million Monday after using various options, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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Strike or no strike, Carson Daly's back at work on "Last Call." But what does this mean?
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A two-dimensional bar code can hold ten seconds of sound, allowing your pill bottles to talk back.
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US prosecutors have challenged the probation office sentencing recommendation for Conrad Black, the former newspaper executive who was convicted of fraud, because they fear it diminishes the significance of the crime he committed
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Wells Fargo's decision to set aside $1.4 billion as a special provision for anticipated loan losses in the riskiest portion of its home equity loans surprised analysts. (WFC)
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Middle-class households in America have to work harder than ever to maintain their standard of living, according to a report released Wednesday.
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TELSTRA boss Sol Trujillo has denied the telco played any political role in the federal election campaign and the election of Kevin Rudd's Government.
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The state's trade office has selected a new foreign representative in Korea.
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A landscape gardener who worked weekly at the home of a Muttontown couple accused of enslaving two Indonesian woman testified Wednesday that one of the woman begged him for food and medicine.
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Digital Angel Corp. cut short its stockholder meeting Tuesday because not enough shareholders had voted on its merger with Applied Digital Solutions Inc., the companies said Wednesday.
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Temasek has sold 280 million shares in China Construction Bank, raising $255.7 million.