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- Chrysler: Viper roars back to life
Chrysler Viper reemerges after two-year hiatus. Chrysler Viper to come with 640-horsepower V-10 engine – and will probably top $100,000.
- Friends of Traditional Banking: A Super PAC for bankers
Frustrated by their lack of political power, the nation's bankers have set up their own campaign donation fund
- Plug-in car woes: Fisker Delaware plant in doubt
Plug-in car manufacturer Fisker says it may have to look at production sites outside Delaware if it can't get a federal loan. Its new plug-in car, the Atlantic, might be built overseas, the CEO says.
- Non-manufacturing business activity down in March
The business activity index declined 5.91% since February but remained 0.51% above the level seen a year earlier.
- US stocks plunge; Dow down 124
US stocks suffered their worst losses in a month amid renewed worry over European debt. US stocks on the Dow lost 124 points to close at 13074.
- Private employers added 209,000 jobs in March
Private employers added 209,000 jobs in March, bringing the total employment level 1.75 percent above the level seen in March 2011
- 30-year mortgage rates drop to 4.03 percent
The average rate for a 30 year fixed rate mortgage declined 7 basis points to 4.03 percent since last week while the purchase application volume increased 7.2 percent and the refinance application climbed 4.0 percent over the same period.
- Social Darwinism is here to stay
President Obama kicked off his 2012 campaign with a hard-hitting speech centered on the House Republicans’ budget plan. We are likely to hear a lot more about social Darwinism in the months ahead.
- Tech stocks in 2014: Apple, $1 trillion; Microsoft, (toward) zero?
Tech stocks analyst sees Apple selling at $1,000 a share in two years and battling Samsung, which other tech stocks like Nokia, and Microsoft will fall to 'virtually nothing over time.'
- Should you sell or donate your old clothes?
Eventually, you’re going to wind up with items of clothing that you don’t wear. How do you know which to sell and which to donate?
- Amazon taxes: Good for states, and taxpayers, too
States are slowly enacting laws that would require online vendors to collect state and local taxes, with mixed success. But the shift will benefit everyone and make tax laws fair.
- Katie Couric vs. Sarah Palin: why battle for morning show supremacy is so hot
ABC called in a.m. TV queen Katie Couric to trump NBC's 'Today' show. NBC called in Sarah Palin. When it comes to morning shows, networks are defending valuable turf.
- We're turning America into a giant casino
Organized gambling is a scam. And it particularly preys upon people with lower incomes – who assume they can’t make it big any other way, who often find it hardest to assess the odds, and whose families can least afford to lose the money. Yet with new, relaxed gambling laws, America is now opening the floodgates.
- Mega Millions mess unfurls as Maryland 'winner' draws suspicion
Mega Millions mess revolves around a Maryland woman who claims she won the lottery.
- Stocks fall on gloomy Fed forecast
Federal Reserve policymakers said they were worried about a slowdown in hiring, pushing down stocks and Treasury prices. The Dow fell 64 points to close at 13199.
- Food stamp use down in January
In January, 64,307 recipients were removed from the food stamps program, but participation continues to rise on a year over year basis.
- Slamming 'social Darwinism,' Obama reignites debt clash with GOP
On primary day, Obama decries the Republican budget proposal as a 'prescription for decline' that would bring cuts to education, transportation, and the social safety net.
- 2012: The year of the junk bond
The first quarter of 2012 will go down as the most active for junk bond issuance since 1980, when Thomson Reuters began keeping track, with 130 companies floating $75 billion in debt offerings.
- The economic fallout of 'Linsanity'
Jeremy Lin is not only changing mainstream America's view of Asians. The New York Knicks star could broaden the aspirations of Asian-Americans themselves.
- Did James Murdoch jump from BskyB before he was pushed?
James Murdoch, son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch, stepped down as chairman of News Corps BskyB satellite broadcaster, as two investigations into the family business near their conclusion.