Super Bowl tickets are most expensive ever

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The average ticket price so far is $3,554 -- about $1,000 more than last year, according to SeatGeek, which tracks online sales. SeatGeek analyst Connor Gregoire said he does not expect the price for the few remaining tickets...

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January was a terrible month for stocks

Stocks have been having a pretty bad 2015 so far. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Dow shed 3.7%, the S&P 500 has lost 3.1%, and the Nasdaq is over 2.1% lower. Talk about a bad start to the year. A quick glance at the chart below shows what a whiplash...

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Seahawks' Paul Allen is the NFL's richest team owner

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is by far the richest in the league. The Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) co-founder is worth about $17 billion, according to various estimates. The Seahawks head to the Super Bowl for the second...

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Jay-Z buys music streaming Aspiro for $56 million

Jay-Z: artist, entrepreneur -- and now tech investor. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Rapper and record producer Jay-Z is the latest, buying up the Swedish music streaming company Aspiro for $56 million. Both companies announced the deal on Friday. Aspiro...

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US economy misses its mark at end of 2014

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) America's economy grew only 2.6% in the final three months of the year, much lower than the estimate of 3.3%. Overall for 2014, U.S. gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity rose 2.4%. That's the highest...

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Chevron slashes spending as oil prices crash

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The second-largest U.S. oil company plans to spend $35 billion this year on projects to discover and pump crude. That's down 13% from 2014. The news comes one day after Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) said it was scaling back its planned...

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Greece: Putin's new ally in Europe?

LONDON (CNNMoney) The countries have a long history of economic, cultural and religious ties. Both are now proving to be a big headache for the European Union. Greece's government, led by left-wing party Syriza, has started to unpick reforms...

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Oil giant Shell cuts spending by $15 billion

LONDON (CNNMoney) Shell said it was scaling back its planned capital investment by $15 billion over the next three years. Oil is now trading around $45 per barrel, down from over $100 per barrel this summer. Shares in Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB)...

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The growing poverty problem in America's schools

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The share of schoolkids who qualify for free or reduced lunches crossed the 50% threshold in 2013, according to a recent Southern Education Foundation report. That compares to fewer than 32% back in 1989. Students eligible...

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Ford is recalling this cop car

Ford's Interceptor is a specially-designed cop car. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Ford is recalling its specially-designed police sedans called Interceptors. The recall stems from a problem with a spring in the interior door handle, which Ford said could...

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74.5 million iPhones is ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) All of Apple's (AAPL, Tech30) products sold well. But the biggest ticket by far was a record 74.5 million iPhone sales. To put that number into perspective, 74.5 million iPhones is ... ... enough to give an iPhone to every...

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Karl Rove: I don't hate poor people. I 'came from nothing.'

Hollywood Beach, Florida (CNNMoney) But the Republican political operative believes there should be limits on how much the government spends on things like welfare. "This is where liberals go: If you don't follow their policy descriptions, you...

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Winklevoss twins: Bitcoin will explode beyond $1 trillion

The Winklevoss twins at ETF.com's Inside ETFs Conference. Hollywood Beach, Florida (CNNMoney) The brothers, known for their legal battle with Facebook (FB, Tech30) founder Mark Zuckerberg, believe the controversial cryptocurrency is the payments...

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Natural gas prices bounce as blizzard blows

LONDON (CNNMoney) Natural gas futures are up 3.5% to roughly $3 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Traders appear to be expecting a surge in heating demand because of the blizzard. Roughly half of American households...

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Europe is on sale for American travelers

Many parts of Europe are on sale now that the euro is at an 11-year low against the U.S. dollar. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Christopher Vecchio spends his days analyzing the moves of the U.S. dollar, British pound, Swiss franc and other global currencies....

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Hashtag #money. The business of the pound sign

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) And even Twitter, at first, rejected the idea, which came from Chris Messina, an early user of the service. He proposed the symbol -- and its functionality -- as a way to allow Twitter users to sift through the daunting, constantly...

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Barbie-maker Mattel CEO out as sales falter

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) After reporting declining sales and profits, Barbie-maker Mattel's CEO Bryan Stockton is stepping down. Stockton will be replaced by Christopher Sinclair, a long-time board member and former Pepsi (PEP) executive, the company...

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Best dividend stocks to buy now

NEW YORK But a quick look beyond the tempting yield reveals that Philip Morris' dividend growth rate slowed significantly last year, growing just 6% compared to a 10% rise the two previous years and 20% growth in 2011. Investors know that the...

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Obamacare website reins in personal data sharing

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Earlier this week, the government came under fire after the Associated Press showed that Healthcare.gov was relaying users' personal information, such as zip code, income level, pregnancy status and whether or not you are a smoker....

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Friday Links

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) A weekly collection of design, data and interactive links.Photo/VideoFibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures | 3-D printed sculptures animate when spun under a strobe lightWoodworking | A look at Japanese joineryGotham 7.5K | A rare...

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Indiana church sues JPMorgan for millions

Christ Church Cathedral (left) in downtown Indianapolis, and Rev. Stephen Carlsen, the cathedral's dean. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Carlsen is dean of Christ Church Cathedral of Indianapolis, which is suing JPMorgan Chase (JPM) for millions. The...

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First big IPO of 2015: Box (finally) goes public

Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, an enterprise cloud storage company that debutes as a public company on Friday. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) A year after it first began the process of going public, Box is debuting on the New York Stock Exchange...

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UPS delivers bad news. Stock tumbles 10%

UPS was overprepared for the holidays, which will hurt its earnings. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The company had ramped up sharply -- hiring 95,000 seasonal employees and preparing modular facilities or "mobile delivery villages" -- to handle additional...

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McDead? More lousy result from McDonald's

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Investors were in a forgiving mood though. The stock rose slightly Friday morning as Wall Street was expecting numbers to be even worse. But make no mistake. McDonald's (MCD) is in desperate need of a turnaround. The company...

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I've made millions playing poker, own almost nothing - and I've never been happier

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) By 2009, at age 24, I was crowned "Player of the Year" by the World Poker Tour and had $2.5 million in poker winnings. But I was worn out and thought I was ready to settle down. It didn't take long to learn I was wrong. I landed...

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Turing manuscript going up for auction

Alan Turing, the mathematician credited with inventing one of the first computers which was used to break the German military's code during World War II. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Turing apparently wrote the 56-page manuscript in 1942 when he was trying...

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Smarter people use iPhones - study

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) A new study conducted by online advertising network Chitika found that states with more college graduates tend to also have higher iPhone sales. Alaska (66%), Montana and Vermont have the largest percentage of iPhone users....

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U.S. shale industry may shrink by 30% -- Ross Perot Jr.

U.S. shale oil drillers will shut down production faster than many expect. DAVOS, Switzerland (CNNMoney) The son of legendary oil magnate Henry Ross Perot Sr. said the recent U.S. shale gas boom was "unsustainable," and now it's time for a bust....

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Driving a jet-powered Corvette

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But it's when the engine starts that you know there's something really weird about this car. The sound of a jet engine fills the air as heat ripples blur the pavement behind it where that hot exhaust is pouring out. This Corvette...

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Fox's Bill O'Reilly calls possible lawsuit from Paris 'ridiculous'

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) There you have it -- Bill O'Reilly's verdict on the warning by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo that her city may sue Fox News. O'Reilly, Fox's highest-rated host, addressed the lawsuit threat on the Tuesday night edition of his program....

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A grown up theme for a grown up Davos?

DAVOS, Switzerland (CNNMoney) For years I have railed against the annual game of "guess what the Davos theme actually means." I have suffered through "Great transformations -- shaping new models," "Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild," and my favorite bit...

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I haven't gotten a raise in years

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Oklahoma state worker hasn't gotten a raise since 2012, and she's not expecting one this year either. That's making it tough for her to meet her bills, even though she and her husband have moved to a home with lower rent...

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Delta Air Lines is saving $2 billion on fuel

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Delta (DAL) CEO Richard Anderson said in a statement that lower fuel prices should save the company more than $2 billion this year. Shares of Delta rose nearly 5% in early trading on the news. The airline is already doing well....

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