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Oil down four dollars amid equities 'bloodbath'

AFP - SINGAPORE (AFP) - Oil prices fell four dollars in Asian trade Friday, after a "bloodbath" on world equity markets, with traders increasingly convinced a global economic slowdown will hurt...

Oil down almost four dollars amid equities 'bloodbath'

AFP - SINGAPORE (AFP) - Oil prices fell almost four dollars in Asian trade Friday, after a "bloodbath" on world markets, with traders increasingly convinced a global economic slowdown will hurt...

U.S. weighs backing bank debt, deposits: reports

Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. government is weighing guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring al U.S. bank deposits, in a bid to unfreeze bank lending and...

U.S. considering backing bank debt, deposits: report

Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States is considering guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring all U.S. bank deposits, two dramatic steps to repair ailing...

Do Links Even Matter Anymore?

Links are like a healthy addiction. And if you are to survive in the online marketplace you need lots and lots of links. Injecting Links! But links are like the U.S. Dollar (especially lately!). The...

Libya to withdraw assets from Swiss banks: report

AFP - TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya will withdraw its assets from Swiss banks estimated at seven billion dollars and stop shipping oil to Switzerland, Jana news agency reported.

Manny makes Phillies pay early

PHILADELPHIA - Nobody knows more about Manny Ramirez' swing than Phillies' manager Charlie Manuel, his former hitting coach and manager in the minors and with the Cleveland Indians. So it would...

B. Hussein Obama Wants To Sell You Something

He might have better luck with this if he has Billy Mays host the thing. No matter how much money he spends buying himself an infomercial, Americans aren't bitter, clingy or stupid. He spent hundreds...

Johnson Controls: electric cars will eventually win out

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, HybridElectric. Hybrid. Plug-in Hybrid, clean diesel and hydrogen fuel cells. With so many differing types of green technology fighting for the chance to lure the green from...

Wasted billions in health care

Arthur Garson talks about unnecessary health care spending in his op-ed. He goes over the common arguments, including practice variation, lack of comparative effectiveness, paying for quantity, and...