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McCain losing support among working-class white voters
The Associated PressThe steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times. But the voters in working-class enclaves such...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Executive Branch, Mining, Scranton, Pittsburgh
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Legg Mason's shares plunge to 9-year low for greatest percentage drop in company history
Shares of Baltimore's Legg Mason Inc. suffered the largest one-day percentage drop in its history as a public company yesterday and plunged to their lowest price in almost 10 years. Legg's shares fell nearly 25 percent, or $6.25, to $19 in a broad market...Tags: Legg Mason, Inc., Moody's Corporation, Stock Activities, Morningstar Incorporated, Banking
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Legg Mason shares plunge to 9-year low
Shares of Baltimore's Legg Mason Inc. suffered the largest one-day percentage drop in its history as a public company today and plunged to their lowest price in almost 10 years. Legg's shares fell nearly 25 percent to $19 in a broad market sell-off...Tags: Legg Mason, Inc., Moody's Corporation, Stock Activities, Morningstar Incorporated, Banking
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Federal guarantees expected to cover nearly all money-market funds after surge in sign-ups
AP Business WriterBOSTON (AP) _ Nearly all the $3.4 trillion in money-market mutual funds is expected to be federally guaranteed for at least the next three months, now that all the major fund providers signed up to participate by a deadline that passed Wednesday. The...Tags: Credit and Debt, Mutual Funds, U.S. Department of Treasury, Foreign Exchange Market, Debt Market
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Nightmare on Wall Street
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe fear gripping the stock market escalated Thursday as panicky investors pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest one-day percentage loss in more than two decades and worries grew that efforts to ease the global credit crisis wouldn't...Tags: Stock Broking, Stock Activities, Banking, Stocks, The White House
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How the rescue plan helps taxpayers (Printer friendly)
Kiplinger's Personal FinanceI understand that the new version of the financial rescue bill also includes some tax breaks. Are there any that will help regular people? In addition to the financial rescue package that everyone's been talking about, the Emergency Economic...Tags: Retirement, Wages and Pensions, Colleges and Universities, Charity, Personal Income
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Are your savings actually safe?
Everywhere I go I can feel the tension. People are naturally concerned about their investment portfolios but increasingly they're worried about the safety of their cash. With a number of major bank failures and takeovers, many people are wondering how...Tags: Financial Markets, George Bush, Economic Policy, Mutual Funds, Labor Legislation
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British army defuses roadside bomb planted by IRA dissidents near Northern Ireland border
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) _ British army experts have defused a roadside bomb planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents in Northern Ireland four days after finding it. The Police Service of Northern Ireland says the bomb was designed to ambush a...Tags: Armed Forces, Defense
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Depression talk speaks of recovery
Let's deal with your worst fantasies: The "D" word. Some people have bandied it about—the prospect that perhaps this is the big one, the 100-year flood in the stock market, or another depression. Most market observers don't feel that way....Tags: Retirement, Stock Broking, Stocks, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke
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Ex-UBS general counsel settles insider trading case
robert.kessler@newsday.comA scheme concocted by a prominent investment bank executive to save himself $250,000 by using insider information cost him $6.5 million yesterday, according to state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. David Aufhauser, the former general counsel of UBS, was...Tags: Lawyers, Insider Trading, U.S. Department of Treasury, Financial Markets, Securities
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The impact of commercial paper
The Federal Reserve yesterday said it will start buying short-term debt, also known as commercial paper, that many companies use to fund their day-to-day operations, its latest emergency move to try to restore credit flows and protect the economy....Tags: Wages and Pensions, General Electric Capital Corporation, Financial Markets, George Bush, Debt Market
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Chew on prices, coverage when considering pet insurance
Tribune Media ServicesJustin and Brandy Besemer were newly married and trying to pay off their wedding debt when they decided their family needed a dog -- an American bulldog named Kaila. Thus started one of their first arguments. Brandy, who had never had a dog before,...Tags: Medical Specialization, Santa Monica, Genetics, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Animals
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