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Canada’s Goldcorp to buy Andean for $3.4 billion (Reuters)

Reuters - Canada’s Goldcorp Inc agreed to buy Argentina-focused gold miner Andean Resources Ltd for C$3.6 billion ($3.4 billion), trumping a competing offer from rival Eldorado Gold Corp.

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Stock index futures dip ahead of payrolls (Reuters)

Reuters - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.21 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.17 percent and Nasdaq100 futures flat at 0725 GMT (3:25 a.m.

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Futures point to Wall Street edging lower (Reuters)

Reuters - Stock index futures pointed to a mostly lower open for U.S. shares on Thursday, giving back a little of the strong gains from the previous session, when they were boosted by strong manufacturing data from China and the United States

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Costco August same-store sales up 7 percent (Reuters)

Reuters - Costco Wholesale Corp , the largest U.S. warehouse club operator, reported a 7 percent rise in August sales at stores open at least a year, aided by surge in gasoline prices and foreign currency gains.

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Global stocks fall, yen climbs on U.S. recovery fears (Reuters)

Reuters - Fears that policymakers around the world will be slow to support the flagging global recovery lifted the yen on Tuesday, weighed on Asian and European stocks and gave further fuel to a five-month rally in U.S. and Japanese government bonds.

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Obama’s economic strategy: What does it mean for you? (The Newsroom)

The Newsroom - President Obama today sought to refocus the White House’s efforts to shore up the U.S. economy, with a pledge to extend tax cuts for Americans earning less than $200,000 per year. The president remained silent about the fate of Bush-era tax cuts to wealthier Americans, while also issuing a plea to Republicans to reach across the partisan aisle to ease passage of a small-business jobs bill he argues is crucial to the nation’s recovery.

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Panel member: Blowout preventer may hold key (AP)

AP - Accurate conclusions about what caused the blowout of BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive spill that followed will have to wait for a key piece of equipment to be raised from the seafloor and analyzed, a member of a federal investigative panel looking into the disaster said Monday.

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HP approves $10 billion stock buyback addition (Reuters)

Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co’s said on Monday its board approved to buy back an additional $10 billion in shares to manage dilution created by shares issued under other plans.

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Genzyme breaks silence to rebuff Sanofi (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. biotech Genzyme broke its five-week silence to reject an $18.5 billion takeover proposal by French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Monday, dismissing it as opportunistic and too low.

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Stock futures trim declines after spending data (Reuters)

Reuters - S&P 500 index futures edged into positive territory on Monday, trimming earlier declines after data showed consumer spending rose at the strongest pace in four months in July.

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Stock futures trim declines after spending data
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