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Productivity Jumps 9.5 Percent In Third Quarter
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Last Updated: 6:24 AM 11/06/09 -
Productivity surged in the third quarter while labor costs continued to drop sharply, a combination that will bolster companies' profits but continue to saddle workers with stagnant incomes.
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Unemployment Nears 10 Percent As Rebound Remains Slow
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Last Updated: 5:44 AM 11/06/09 -
The monthly employment report due out Friday isn't expected to remind anyone of an economic rebound, even though data suggests one's under way.
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NC To Have Sales Tax Holiday For Energy Efficient Appliances
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Last Updated: 3:55 PM 11/05/09 -
North Carolina residents will get a break on sales taxes when they purchase energy efficient appliances Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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October Sales Promise A Bit Of Relief To Stores
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Last Updated: 6:30 AM 11/05/09 -
October sales reports from major retailers ranging from Target Corp. to Macy's Inc. are expected to offer more evidence of a spending recovery when they're released Thursday.
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Congress Set To Clear Aid To Jobless, Homebuyers
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Last Updated: 4:03 AM 11/05/09 -
Congress is one vote away from sending the president legislation that continues aid to more than a million jobless people and extends tax breaks to hundreds of thousands of prospective homebuyers and struggling businesses.
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Tax Payers May Lose The 2.3 Billion It Loaned To Bank During Crisis
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Last Updated: 7:12 AM 11/02/09 -
CIT made its filing in New York bankruptcy court Sunday, after a debt-exchange offer to bondholders failed.
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Corn Farmers Say NC Pork Producer Hasn't Paid Them
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Last Updated: 3:14 PM 11/01/09 -
Anne Faircloth, partner of Clinton-based Coharie Hog Farms, said the company is contending with two years of shrinking profits but she ultimately aims to work with the farmers.
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Gas Prices Chugging Higher As Holidays Near
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Last Updated: 4:49 AM 11/01/09 -
Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached — billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump.
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ALL BUSINESS: Credit-Card Rates Up Before New Law
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Last Updated: 2:37 AM 10/31/09 -
Have you checked the interest rates on your credit cards lately? Odds are they're going way up.
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Church Says "No" To Halloween-Themed Wedding
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A church made famous by Washington Irving's short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has rejected a couple's request to hold a Halloween-themed wedding in New York.
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