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Job growth accelerates as housing market strengthens
WASHINGTON -- Job growth has begun gathering steam as the housing market comes back to life and many private employers start to look past government budget battles and begin adding employees to their thinned ranks. The Labor Department said the...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, Employment Opportunities, Science and Technology, Services and Shopping
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When a drug costs 30 times what it once did
Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange. She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, CVS Corp., Pneumonia, Watson Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Hospitals and Clinics
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Herbalife is global giant with business model in question
Stock spotlight is a new weekly feature that will profile a notable, public company. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Herbalife: A caption for a photo with the Stock Spotlight column in the Feb. 25 Section A said customers were participating in an...
Tags: Nutrition, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Sales, Stock Market, Herbalife Limited
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Home prices up 9.7% year-over-year in January, CoreLogic reports
WASHINGTON -- U.S. home prices rose 9.7% in January from a year earlier, the biggest increase since 2006, a real estate data analysis firm reported Tuesday. Southern California was among the best performing regions in the country, according to Irvine-...
Tags: Foreclosures, Real Estate
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Get ready for likely gas price increase when California taxes go up
It's probably the last thing that California motorists want to hear: the state's excise tax on gasoline will rise by 3.5 cents a gallon on July 1. The increase will take the state's excise tax to up to 39.5 cents a gallon for every gallon of gasoline...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gasoline Industry, Petroleum Industry
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Toyota releases convertible concept of GT86 ahead of Geneva
Almost since the day Toyota and Scion debuted the FR-S sports car, there was conjecture that a convertible version would eventually follow. On Friday, the drop-top's prospects got a lot better. Toyota's UK office announced it would be bringing the FT-...
Tags: Toyota, Subaru, Ford, Passenger Cars, Scion
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Volkswagen to unveil 261-mpg car at Geneva Motor Show
Volkswagen plans to bring a 261-mpg production car to the Geneva Motor Show next week. Unfortunately, the company won't be bringing it to the U.S. Ever. That's the official word on the two-seat, carbon-fiber, plug-in hybrid. However, the featherweight...
Tags: Toyota, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Prius, Volkswagen, Ford
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California gas prices peak; pump pain changes U.S. driving habits
California gasoline prices may have already peaked for the first half of the year and should head lower soon, analysts said. Meanwhile, nationwide gasoline price averages over the first two months of the year rose at such a blistering rate that...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Commodity Markets, Market and Exchange, Energy Saving
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J.C. Penney reports another loss in fourth quarter; sales slide 28%
J.C. Penney Co. is falling deeper into a rut, reporting yet another quarter of tanking sales and net loss as the department store chain struggles in its reinvention. The Plano, Texas, company reported a net loss of $552 million, or $2.51 a share, in its...
Tags: Walmart, Martha Stewart, JC Penney Company Inc., Target, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Light-filled, sleek contemporary in Brentwood
This 1950s home was taken down to the studs and remodeled into a sleek contemporary. Sliding walls of glass and ample skylights are among features of the light-filled house. Location: 2847 Mandeville Canyon Road, Brentwood 90049 Asking price: $2.15...
Tags: Homes, Personal Service, Lauren Beale
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Spanish-style living in the Hollywood Hills
This 1920s Spanish-style house had its beginnings in old Hollywood. The villa, which features a rotunda entry, stenciled ceilings and a tower room, was built for early film producer William Sistrom and designed by art director Harry McAfee. Location:...
Tags: Lauren Beale
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Median home price posts biggest gain since 2005, Realtors say
One measure of national home prices rose last month with a vigor not seen since the bubble days as the number of foreclosed homes and other distressed properties on the market shrank. The median sales price for previously owned U.S. homes rose 12.3%...
Tags: Homes, Realty, Foreclosures, Real Estate Sales, Real Estate Sellers
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