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Stocks edge up as investors keep eye on Washington

Source: FindLaw: AP News, Dec 6 2012, 3:33pm CST

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple and other technology companies led the stock market up for the second day in a row Thursday. The gains came a day after Apple took its worst fall in four years. In separate interviews ...

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Stocks edge lower as investors reassess Fed fears

Source: FindLaw: AP News  |   May 23 2013, 3:53pm CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower. U.S. markets plummeted immediately after the opening bell Thursday following a global slump prompted in part ...

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Apple taxes turn into Cook's latest firefighting job

Source: SCMP  |   May 23 2013, 3:27pm CDT

Tim Cook's tenure at the helm of Apple has been a crash course in crisis management. In almost two years since Cook became chief executive, Apple has lurched from one reputation-threatening public-relations predicame ...

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23 weeks ago


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"Everybody is paying close attention to the soap opera in Washington"


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Obama heckled over US drone use

Source: Sydney Morning Herald  |   May 23 2013, 2:51pm CDT

Medea Benjamin, a protester and co-founder of Code Pink, shouts as US President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, at the National Defense U ...

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Apple's corporate tax showdown with Congress shows need for reform (Other Views)

Source: The San Jose Mercury News  |   May 23 2013, 2:49pm CDT

that, while firms such as Apple hire herds of lawyers to find ways to stash their cash, individual taxpayers assume a greater portion of the tax burden. worldwide. But we are not Pollyanna enough to seriously ...

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Muni Bond Investors on Edge Over Tax Proposal

Source: ABC News  |   May 23 2013, 2:47pm CDT

Municipal bonds continue to provide a reliable refuge from stock market volatility and a steady source of tax-free income. An index of muni bond mutual funds has recently been yielding around 2.18 percent. While that's nothing to brag ...

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Obama endorses more oversight of drone strikes

Source: Biloxi Sun Herald  |   May 23 2013, 2:33pm CDT

President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president ...

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2 hours ago

Protester shouts at Obama during speech (VIDEO)

Source: Denver Post  |   May 23 2013, 2:28pm CDT

CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin is surrounded by security as she shouts at President Barack Obama during his speech on national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort M ...

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2 hours ago

High & Low Finance: Making Companies Pay Taxes the McCain Way

Source: The New York Times  |   May 23 2013, 2:23pm CDT

The shameful thing about Apple Inc.'s ability to structure its business to avoid United States taxes was not that it did it. In fact, as Apple executives tried to point out at the Senate hearing at which their tax strat ...

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Obama says terror threat has shifted, defends use of drones

Source: The Morning Call  |   May 23 2013, 2:10pm CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave a robust defense on Thursday of U.S. use of unmanned armed drones and said the threat of terrorism to the United States had shifted since the attacks on September 11, 2001 ...

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