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7/30/2010 9:32:12 AM
Reuters - Economic growth slowed in the second quarter as a capital investment drive by businesses sucked in imports at the fastest pace since the first quarter of 1984.
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7/30/2010 9:40:31 AM
 Reuters - Stocks opened lower on Friday after data showed U.S. economic growth slowed more than expected in the second quarter, underscoring worries about the recovery.
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7/30/2010 9:24:11 AM
Reuters - Chevron Corp , the second-largest U.S. oil company, reported a three-fold jump in quarterly profit on rising oil output, higher energy prices and buoyant margins at its refineries, topping Wall Street forecasts.
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7/30/2010 7:34:14 AM
 Reuters - Merck & Co reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Friday, helped by strong sales of its treatments for diabetes, arthritis and
HIV.
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7/30/2010 9:40:36 AM
Reuters - China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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7/29/2010 12:42:07 PM
Reuters - Trading in Cisco Systems Inc shares was briefly halted on Thursday after triggering a circuit breaker.
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7/30/2010 12:48:33 AM
 AFP - The International Monetary Fund on Friday said more stimulus spending might be needed to aid a slow US economic recovery, wading into a toughly-fought political debate in Washington.
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7/30/2010 9:39:10 AM
AP - THE COMPANY: St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc., one of the world's biggest coal producers, fuels about 8 percent of all U.S. electrical generation.
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7/29/2010 10:59:57 AM
AP - Italian officials are seeking to raise some euro25 million (about $32 million) in private money to finance the restoration of one of the country's iconic landmarks: the Colosseum.
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7/29/2010 11:45:28 PM
 AP - State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he had opened a fraud investigation into how life insurers pay out benefits after policyholders die.
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