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US House Passes Bill To Raise FHA Premium Cap

12 hours ago - full story: Fox Business

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. House of Representatives earlier Friday passed a bill to allow the Federal Housing Administration to nearly triple the ...

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U.S. May Widen Range in BP Oil-Spill Estimate, Scientist Says

12 hours ago - full story: BusinessWeek

The Obama administration, which plans within a few days to announce a new determination for how much oil BP Plc's leaking Gulf of Mexico well was spewing, ...

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Why the Fed Should Restart Quantitative Easing - Soon

12 hours ago - full story: SeekingAlpha.com

Friday's economic report on second quarter GDP underscored the deceleration taking place in the economy. GDP rose 2.4% in the second quarter of 2010. ...

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Analysts encouraged by Microsoft's cloud progress

12 hours ago - full story: Japan Herald

SEATTLE (MarketWatch) -- Wall Street analysts came away from Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting encouraged by the company's progress in adapting to a market ...

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Fate Of Senate's Oil-Spill Bill Growing Uncertain

12 hours ago - Japan Herald

(Updates to include details on the Senate's procedural options on the spill bill.) WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Senate appears increasingly unlikely to pass an oil-spill bill before it leaves for... - read more at Japan Herald

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Can real-time search make a buck? OneRiot restructures

12 hours ago - V entureBeat

The biggest of the independent real-time search engines, OneRiot, restructured its management today and laid off an unknown number of employees, including the company's co-founder Robert Reich. Kimbal Musk, a serial entrepreneur who served as chief executive, is stepping aside to serve as chairman and ... - read more at V entureBeat

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Portfolio Recovery Tops

12 hours ago - Zacks - Analyst blog

On July 29, 2010, Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc. (PRAA) reported its second-quarter income from continuing operations of $19.5 million or $1.14 per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 92 cents. - read more at Zacks - Analyst blog

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Twitter Launches New User Suggestion Features

12 hours ago - WebProNews

Twitter has begun rolling out a "Suggestions for You" feature that helps users find people to follow. You may be familiar with a similar feature on Facebook. "With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect ... - read more at WebProNews

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US Bank Business Loans Down $1.2 Billion In Latest Week

12 hours ago - Fox Business

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. banks' commercial and industrial loans decreased $1.2 billion to about $1.234 trillion in the week ended July 21, the latest week for which data are available, the Federal Reserve said Friday. That followed a $5.6 billion decrease the previous week. Jumbo certificates of ... - read more at Fox Business

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A BlackBerry tablet?

12 hours ago - Boston Globe

So says Bloomberg News. It's reporting that Research In Motion, in a bid to compete with the Apple iPad, will... Apple - Research In Motion - Smartphone - IPad - BlackBerry - read more at Boston Globe

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Friday's Best Performers

Ticker	Price	Change	Mkt Cap
DTLSF	18.95	+8.10 (+74.65%)	$82.65B
PWER	12.43	+2.47 (+24.80%)	$1.10B
GERN	5.63	+0.83 (+17.29%)	$552.76M
HLIT	6.97	+1.00 (+16.75%)	$675.53M
ALU	2.98	+0.38 (+14.62%)	$6.91B
ARNA	7.95	+0.97 (+13.90%)	$892.30M
CQB	14.68	+1.47 (+11.13%)	$658.85M
ITRO	1.49	+0.14 (+10.37%)	$4.60B
MFE	33.10	+2.85 (+9.42%)	$5.16B
SMI	3.50	+0.30 (+9.38%)	$1.80B

* Excludes stocks with mkt cap < $500M.

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Friday's Worst Performers

Ticker	Price	Change	Mkt Cap
WFR	9.56	-1.70 (-15.10%)	$2.17B
GNW	13.58	-2.21 (-14.00%)	$6.64B
THOR	36.78	-5.76 (-13.54%)	$2.11B
APKT	28.26	-4.13 (-12.75%)	$1.72B
NTRI	19.56	-2.69 (-12.09%)	$613.75M
ANW	20.56	-2.60 (-11.23%)	$980.49M
ARBA	15.97	-1.61 (-9.16%)	$1.44B
LPX	7.28	-0.72 (-9.00%)	$923.16M
CTCT	19.49	-1.73 (-8.15%)	$555.70M
MKTAY	28.16	-2.44 (-7.97%)	$3.94B

* Excludes stocks with mkt cap < $500M.

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Top Russian Stocks

Russia has a strong growing economy and as a BRIC country, is one of the four horsemen for worldwide investment opportunities, along with the 'B' in BRIC, Brazil, the 'I' in BRIC, India, and the 'C' in BRIC, China. Some interesting facts about Russia: 1. Russia is the largest country in the world by ... - read more at Benzinga

tags: Mechel Open Joint Stock Company (MTL) Mobile Telesystems

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Hunter Todd v. Bank of America

10-1982 Filed in Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Type of Suit: Real Property: Foreclosure Plaintiff - Appellant: HUNTER TODD. Defendant - Appellee: BANK OF AMERICA. - read more at Federal District Court Filings

tags: Bank of America

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Solar power product gives Varian juice

Disqus Solar power product gives Varian juice Sales, revenues up, and workers being hired A resurgent Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates is betting on the future of solar power, expanding production again at its Blackburn Industrial Park plant and hiring again. - read more at Topix

tags: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates

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New Sundance Chairman Resumes Iron-Ore Talks With Cameroon

YAOUNDE, Cameroon -(Dow Jones)- The new acting chairman of Sundance Resources Ltd. (SDL.AU), George Jones, began meeting with top Cameroon government officials to finalize negotiations that could authorize the company to start extracting iron from its eastern Cameroon site of Mbalam. Jones, who arrived ... - read more at Fox Business

tags: Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones

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Disney sells Miramax for $660 mil.

NEW YORK -- The Walt Disney Co. is selling Miramax Films to a group of investors for $660 million. - read more at Chicago Sun Times - Business

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. Q2 2010 Earnings ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSM) Q2 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - read more at Seeking Alpha

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Big Dropship Helps Bloggers Continue Writing

San Jose, CA, July 30, 2010 -- Instead of receiving pennies from Google adwords, Big Drop Ship's affiliate program gives them dollars. Big Drop Ship has helped over 200 small business owners to save time, so they can focus on sales and marketing to grow their business. A busy business owner should spend ... - read more at PR-Inside.com

tags: Google

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Cops: Repentant, would-be robber hits shoe store: In the end, ...

(The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Investigators have caught up with the repentant, would-be thief who was caught on tape as the manager of a cellphone store talked - read more at Congoo - Clothing

tags: Miami Herald McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

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Cops: Repentant would-be robber hits shoe store: A remorseful ...

(The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A Coral Springs man arrested on charges of robbing a Payless Shoe Store at gunpoint has now been slapped with addition criminal - read more at Congoo - Clothing

tags: Miami Herald McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

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Austin-based tech firm Digby.com raises $2M in its $3M equity ...

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Men's Wearhouse names VP e-commerce and digital

Houston Men's Wearhouse announced that it has named Susan G. Neal as senior VP e-business and digital strategies. - read more at Topix

tags: Men's Wearhouse

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The SPE Regional Honours and Awards Ceremony to take place alongside ...

Bahrain: The 2010 Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Honours and Awards Ceremony will be held at an exclusive Gala Dinner on Monday, 4 October 2010, during the SPE Middle East Health, Safety, Security and Environment Conference and Exhibition (MEHSSE), Manama, Bahrain. [AMEInfo.com] - read more at AME Info

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