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Guggenheim is flexing its $170 billion muscles

Todd Boehly (left) and Mark Walter at Guggenheim's New York offices (Fortune) Fittingly enough, the winner was a charismatic superstar with local pedigree: retired Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson. Or rather, the victors were, as the headlines...

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Dow marches toward record high

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.2%, the S&P 500 added 0.3% and the Nasdaq gained 0.4%. While jobless claims fell sharply last week, the government's second estimate of fourth-quarter GDP showed a nearly imperceptible...

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Guggenheim is flexing its $170 billion muscles

Todd Boehly (left) and Mark Walter at Guggenheim's New York offices (Fortune) Fittingly enough, the winner was a charismatic superstar with local pedigree: retired Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson. Or rather, the victors were, as the headlines...

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Yahoo defends no-work-at-home policy

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) "This isn't a broad industry view on working from home -- this is about what is right for Yahoo, right now," said a statement from a company spokesman late Tuesday. The no-work-at-home policy has prompted widespread criticism...

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Stocks: Investors step back

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 were both down less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq was flat. Stocks rebounded Tuesday after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke signaled the central bank's easy money policies will...

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Stocks bounce back

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq gained between 0.3% and 0.6%. The S&P Case-Shiller home price index for the fourth quarter of 2012 showed that home prices jumped 7.3%, the third straight...

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Budget cuts: I'm losing my job next week

On March 9, Raymond Wyrick will lose his job as a mechanic refurbishing Humvees for the U.S. Army, if federal budget cuts kick in this Friday. WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) As Washington continues to wrangle over the cuts, Wyrick is one of 414 workers...

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Home prices shoot higher

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The report covered home prices across 20 major housing markets and comes ahead of a government report on the sales of new homes due later Tuesday. The home price increase marks the third straight quarter of year-over-year gains....

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Adoption tax credit for same-sex couples

Sharon McGowan, left, and her wife Emily expect to receive an adoption tax credit of more than $2,000 after Sharon legally adopted their daughter. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The adoption tax credit grants qualifying taxpayers up to $12,650 per child for...

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U.K. vows to stick with austerity

Finance minister George Osborne says loss of AAA rating means cuts must continue LONDON (CNNMoney) Moody's cut its rating to Aa1 late Friday, saying growth would remain weak into the second half of the decade, making it harder for the government...

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Barnes & Noble chairman wants to buy company - but not the Nook

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Riggio, who disclosed his plans in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, did not name a price. Shares jumped 8% in early trading. Riggio is already the largest shareholder of Barnes & Noble (BKS,...

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Judge rules against Apple in Einhorn cash fight

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Einhorn's Greenlight Capital filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to "unbundle" a number of shareholder proposals that would have been voted on as a group, including one that would have made it difficult for the company to...

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Moody's downgrades United Kingdom from AAA

God save the AAA rating. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The U.K. was knocked down one notch to Aa1, with its ratings outlook at stable. Moody's said the key drivers of the downgrade included the country's rising debt burden and tepid growth outlook over the...

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Samsung stuffs a phone in new Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) It runs Android 4.1, has a 1.6 GHz quad-core CPU, 2 gigabytes of RAM, and an 8-inch, 1280 x 800 display that you can control with Samsung's S-Pen stylus. But on the international version of the device, there's something quite strange...

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Fed officials: Don't worry if we lose money

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But that's okay, Fed officials say. After years of record profits, the Fed is likely to be saddled with losses starting in 2017 or 2018, economists predict in a paper that was presented Friday at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum,...

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Judge rules against Apple in Einhorn cash fight

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Einhorn's Greenlight Capital filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to "unbundle" a number of shareholder proposals that would have been voted on as a group, including one that would have made it difficult for the company to...

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Moody's downgrades United Kingdom from AAA

God save the AAA rating. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The U.K. was knocked down one notch to Aa1, with its ratings outlook at stable. Moody's said the key drivers of the downgrade included the country's rising debt burden and tepid growth outlook over the...

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Citigroup CEO Corbat's pay: $11.5 million

Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat took home an $11.5 million pay package last year. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The pay package, disclosed in a regulatory filing late Thursday, comes a year after Citigroup shareholders rejected a $15 million pay package for...

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Millions more could join Medicaid as Republican governors cave in

Click on the map to see how many adults could become eligible for Medicaid if each state chose to expand. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Florida Governor Rick Scott on Wednesday became the latest to warm up to the expansion, which broadens coverage to adults...

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Stocks bounce back after two-day slide

Click chart for more market data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Friday's gains follow two days of sell-offs that marked the biggest two-day drop in U.S. stocks this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq moved up between...

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Jobless claims rise

Job seekers at a recent New York City jobs fair. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Labor Department report showed 362,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits in the latest week, up from 342,00 the previous week, when claims may have been limited by snow...

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Stocks open in the red

Click the chart for more premarket data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Dow Jones industrial average declined 0.3%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 0.4%. Investors were disappointed after survey of purchasing managers showed Europe's downturn...

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Biggest problems with the budget cuts

The March 1 budget cuts will affect Americans in myriad ways, like at airport check-in lines. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The cuts are bad policy. They're indiscriminate: They give spending cuts a bad name. The law governing them requires that they...

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Home construction off to strong start

Builders filed the the most building permits since early 2008 in January. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Permits are a sign of builders' confidence in the market. It's also less affected by weather than housing starts. Last month, builders filed for permits...

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Office Depot to buy rival OfficeMax

An announcement that Office Depot is buying smaller rival OfficeMax may have been premature. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Details on the deal were limited. The companies said they expect to save $400 million to $600 million annually from the combination....

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Stocks dip but still near record highs

Click chart for more markets data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Investors weren't willing to push stocks higher Wednesday morning, one day after the Dow and S&P closed at new 5-year highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and...

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Europe turns up heat on Google over privacy

Regulators could act over Google's privacy policy by the summer LONDON (CNNMoney) French data protection watchdog CNIL, which led an inquiry last year into a new Google privacy policy, said the company had failed to respond adequately to EU concerns...

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