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Most automakers report boom in December sales
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800
Ford and Subaru report 33% gains over last year while Hyundai sales soar 40%. GM and Chrysler, on the other hand, see a decline in sales for the month. Heavy advertising and promotions are cited. Most automakers reported big sales gains in December as heavy advertising and promotions brought people into showrooms toward the end of the month.
Google unveils new mobile phone
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:13:23 -0800
The Nexus One, a smartphone that it bills as the connection between the phone and the Web, is the next step in Internet giant's ambitious expand its dominance.
Pending home sales fall 16% in November
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:14:13 -0800
The number of pending home sales tumbled, raising concerns that the housing market's struggles will drag on.
GMAC expects $5-billion loss in quarter
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800
WASHINGTON -- Auto lender GMAC Financial Services said Monday it expects to announce a combined fourth-quarter net loss of about $5 billion, hurt by its struggling mortgage division.
Coffee-roasting brood keeps L.A. ethnic communities brewing
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800
Gaviña & Sons has grown into a $114-million-a-year business by understanding the tastes of immigrant groups. Lately it's been shifting from mom-and-pop stores to supermarket shelves. The coffee beans roasted, ground, packaged and shipped out of the F. Gaviña & Sons Inc. factory in Vernon are as diverse as the ethnic communities that blanket Southern California.
ING Direct ad takes advantage of Americans' amnesia about the stock market
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800
'Owners' tempts the young and inexperienced to 'get your share,' and implies that investing can be an expression of one's cultural politics. A tough, tasty steak of a book, Justin Fox's "The Myth of the Rational Market" arrived last fall just in time to explain how and why the smartest economists and best-managed institutions on Wall Street nearly detonated a bomb in the world's underpants.

 

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