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Customers of IndyMac Federal Bank enter the failed financial institution’s headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., in 2008.

Customers of IndyMac Federal Bank enter the failed financial institution’s headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., in 2008.

by Matt Apuzzo
Associated Press Writer

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WASHINGTON - As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators at age...

President Barack Obama signs the HIRE Act jobs bill in the White House Rose Garden in Washington on Thursday.

Obama signs $38B jobs bill
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public’s top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation’s health care system ke...

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Stocks end mixed after price, jobs reports
NEW YORK – Major stock indexes ended mixed Thursday on more evidence that the economy is regaining strength at a slow pace. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for an eighth straight d...

March 19, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Bank president to resume post
COBB COUNTY – Donald D. Howard will resume his role as president and CEO of Bank of North Georgia, according to a Wednesday press release from the bank. Howard is also a regional CEO ...

March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Stocks climb on low rates of interest
NEW YORK – The stock market has a new formula for success: a slow and steady trek higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 48 points Wednesday in its seventh straight advance to clo...

March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Winners of business of the year announced
KENNESAW – The Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business has announced the winners of the 2010 Georgia Family Business of the Year Awards....

March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Fed keeps interest rates low
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Tuesday repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment. But the Fed’s assess...

March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Stocks increase on Fed pledge
NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve’s mildly upbeat take on the economy and its plans to hold interest rates low gave stocks a lift. The Dow Jones industrial average rose almost 44 poin...

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, and Coca-Cola Pacific Group President Glenn Jordan, right, prepare to perform the ground-breaking ceremony for a new plant at Bandar Enstek, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday.

Expanding empire
NILAI , Malaysia – Coca-Cola said Tuesday it will build a new bottling plant in Malaysia and invest $302 million over the next five years to boost growth in the Southeast Asian market. The ...

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Fed meeting dampens stocks
NEW YORK – Investors turned cautious Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest rates. Major stock indexes closed narrowly mixed after trading lower for most of the ...

March 16, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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FCC set to unveil broadband proposal

Toyota: We can't duplicate Prius' 94 mph failure

Social Security to cash federal IOUs

Economists clash, sow confusion on Wall Street's future

Derivatives divide regulators

Stocks end mixed after uneven data is released

Retail sales numbers offer surprise

Fed candidate might favor low rates

Economists predict U.S. exports a 'bright spot'

Prem Kalra, 72, watches with his old Bajaj super scooter as a motorcyclist whizzes past in New Delhi, India. Once there was the waiting list to buy Bajaj scooters, a wait which often lasted for years. There was the pride of that first ride and you knew that you’d finally made it to the middle class. Later this month, Bajaj’s last scooter will roll out from its factory, ending an era in India’s transition from dreary socialist economy into a consumerist powerhouse.

India's middle class forsakes iconic vehicle for motorcycles
NEW DELHI – It was a purchase to be remembered. There was the years-long waiting list to buy it and the jealous stares once you finally got it home. There was the pride of that first rid...

March 15, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Shannon ‘Batousaii’ Dunne stands with a holstered Ruger Vaquero handgun and sips a Starbucks coffee drink while watching an anti-gun rally in Seattle. Starbucks is sticking to its policy of letting customers carry guns where it is legal and said it does not want to be put in the middle of a larger gun-control debate.

Guns n' retailers
NEW YORK – Guns. Religion. Abortion. These are the no-win arguments that spoil family gatherings – and the stuff of retailers’ nightmares. Starbucks has found itself in the m...

March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Nicholas Brigandi, center, of NYSE Euronext helps direct trading in shares of Merck & Co. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. If you’re confused about the outlook for the economy and the stock market, then you’ve got good company — the Wall Street economists and strategists who are supposed to have this all figured out.

Even pros stumped by mixed stock messages
NEW YORK – If you’re confused about the outlook for the economy and stocks one year after the market hit bottom, then you’ve got good company – the Wall Street economis...

March 08, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou participate in a joint news conference in Berlin on Friday. Papandreou discussed the current financial crisis in Greece with Merkel. He meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy today.

French president backing Greece
PARIS – Fellow euro-zone countries cannot abandon debt-ridden Greece because doing so would defeat the purpose of the common currency project, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturda...

March 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Real estate agent Tim Surratt poses in front of one of his properties in Houston. The $6,500 repeat buyer tax credit has had little effect on the housing market.

Repeat-buyer tax credit falls flat
It sounded like a great idea three months ago: Hand homeowners a $6,500 tax credit to find a new place to live, giving a thrust of energy to the housing market’s recovery. So far, people are...

March 01, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, chats online with netizens at two state news portals in Beijing on Saturday. Wen said 2010 will be the most complicated year for the country s economy, and he promised the government would fight inflation and soaring property prices.

China: 2010 will be 'most complicated'
BEIJING – Premier Wen Jiabao promised Saturday to control inflation and keep China’s economic recovery on track and expressed hope for an end to tensions with Washington over trade a...

February 28, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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A sign on a 2010 Camry assures customers that the car has not been affected by the recall at Bay Ridge Toyota in New York. With Toyota waging a furious lobbying and advertising battle to protect its name following the recall of 8.5 million vehicles, many of its 1,200 dealers are taking matters into their own hands. A group in Southern California almost retained the PR firm Sitrick and Co. of Los Angeles.

Toyota dealers try to repair image
WASHINGTON – How rattled are Toyota dealers about the company’s problems? Some dealerships nearly hired the same crisis public relations firm that handled the travails of socialite P...

February 22, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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First lady Michelle Obama is greeted by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III as she is introduced to speak at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting.

Gubernatorial gathering
WASHINGTON – On the recession’s front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Wash...

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Schools in China say they weren't behind hacking
SHANGHAI – Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday. The New York Times reported late ...

February 21, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Marc Stewart, left, and Kyle Burns, two members of the pop rock band Forever the Sickest Kids, face off with the Nerf N-Strike Deploy CS-6 and the Nerf N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35 blasters, both part of the new Clear Series Special Edition line of Nerf products, as they tour the Hasbro showroom at the American International Toy Fair in New York on Saturday.

Beep, squeak, ka-ching!
NEW YORK – If the Zhu Zhu Pets taught a lesson, it’s that a bit of technology and a low price tag can go a long way. Toy makers are taking that experience to heart. From a digital ...

February 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0

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Toyota's hometown shocked by recall

Female plumber shatters stereotype, expands service

Fed vote raises economic fears

FDA demands cigarette makers hand over formulas by June

Tobacco firms argue against billions in fines

The 5 hottest cars of the future

China becomes biggest exporter

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