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Home-building boom returning to Southern California
Morning light revealed pitched tents and scattered sleeping bags in front of the sales offices of luxury builder Woodbridge Pacific Group. Attracted by a dozen new Huntington Beach homes touted as "starting in the low 1,200,000s," about 15 hopefuls...
Tags: Conservation, Foreclosures, Money and Monetary Policy, Architecture, Endangered Species
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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo post sharply higher profits
Two of the nation's healthiest banks reported sharply higher profits and fewer loan delinquencies as bank earnings season began, but a slowdown in the mortgage business disappointed investors. JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s first-quarter earnings rose 33% and...
Tags: Corporate Officers, Earnings, Services and Shopping, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Dow rises for ninth straight day; best streak in 16 years
The new pope did not bless the Dow or the rest of the stock market Wednesday. But he didn't have to - stocks are rising without any divine intervention. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for the ninth straight day Wednesday, its longest such...
Tags: O.J. Simpson, Bill Clinton, Stock Market, Petroleum Industry, Consumers
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Most jurors would be biased against Wall Street, study finds
Unless you’re a college graduate with a six-figure income, you’re probably biased against Wall Street. That’s the gist of a new survey in which 57% of Americans said that, if they were jurors in a legal dispute, they would be likely to...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Some banks have become too big to prosecute, attorney general says
First, financial institutions were too big to fail. Now, are they too big to prosecute? Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that some banks had become so big that prosecuting them could endanger the wider economy. In remarks before the Senate...
Tags: Justice System, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminal Laws, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Consumers need better way to fix credit reporting errors
About 10 million consumers, through no fault of their own, have serious errors on their credit reports, raising troubling questions about people's ability to secure loans and the fairness of interest rates they're charged. In the first study of its...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Business, Federal Reserve, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Ratings agency gives thumbs up to California
Wall Street continues to look favorably on California's financial progress. On Monday, Fitch became the latest ratings agency to issue a positive report about the state, citing "fiscal management improvements" and "two successive years of structural...Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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S&P 500 sets all-time closing high [video chat]
NEW YORK -- The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index broke a half-decade-old record, another sign of stocks' continuing rally this year. The S&P 500 added 6.34 points, or 0.41%, to 1,569.19 Thursday, the last trading day of the first quarter. The S&P 500...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, S&P 500, Pinnacle Foods Incorporated, Stock Market, European Debt Crisis
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S&P 500 hits record to cap rally
NEW YORK — The new high in the Standard & Poor's 500 index is a fitting exclamation point for an impressive first quarter in the stock market. The index of 500 large U.S. companies capped a four-year rally Thursday, recouping all of its losses...Tags: Barack Obama, Budget Control Act of 2011, Federal Reserve, Employment, Financial Markets
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Tuition.io helps manage all student loans in one place
After graduating from Columbia University in the height of the recession and acquiring $120,000 in debt, including 12 student loans from seven servicers, Brendon McQueen was left with a film degree and a six-month grace period before his first loan...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, Loans, Students, Finance
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California will tap bond market for $2.7 billion
California will sell $2.7 billion worth of bonds in March, tapping the bond market for the first time since its credit rating was boosted earlier this year. The Golden State will sell $2.2 billion worth of general obligation bonds, which are tax-exempt,...
Tags: Bonds, Financial Markets, Ratings, Credit and Debt, Bill Lockyer
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As Lululemon recalls too-sheer black yoga pants, its stock sinks
Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s problem isn’t just that a batch of its black yoga pants were made too sheer and had to be recalled – the popular retailer is now downgrading its financial predictions and watching its stock do a downward dog....
Tags: Gap Inc., Under Armour Inc., Physical Fitness and Exercise
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