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By Brian Womack, Bloomberg |
February 19, 2013
Google Inc., operator of the world’s largest Web-search engine, surpassed $800 for the first time as mobile computing bolsters growth.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
February 14, 2013
The worst U.S. drought since the 1930s is shrinking a cattle herd that’s already the smallest since 1952 and signaling tighter beef supplies and higher costs for restaurant owners.
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By Joe Carroll, Tim Catts and David Wethe, Bloomberg |
February 7, 2013
Deep-water oil exploration has been disrupted from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil by the discovery of faulty bolts used in safety equipment less than three years after the worst-ever U.S. maritime crude spill.
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By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Bloomberg |
February 6, 2013
Drilling regulators directed offshore operators to halt work on some oil and gas wells in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after discovering faulty bolts on equipment used to prevent blowouts.
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By Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg |
February 5, 2013
Service industries in the U.S. expanded in January at about the same pace as the prior month, showing the biggest part of the economy is holding up in the face of federal government budget battles.
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By Sholom Sanik |
January 30, 2013
Wheat prices have been in a precipitous decline since they brushed close to $10 per bushel highs back in August. Recent reports were mostly bullish.
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By Shruti Date Singh, Bloomberg |
January 17, 2013
Cargill Inc., the largest U.S. beef processor, will idle a Texas processing plant after the size of the cattle herd fell to a 60-year low and years of drought increased feed costs. Cattle futures dropped.
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By Press Release |
January 15, 2013
The regulator says the defendants, Charles Timberlake and Trans Global Investments LLC, committed commodity pool fraud.
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By Mike Dorning, Bloomberg |
January 4, 2013
Fresh from one budget fight, President Barack Obama and Congress are heading for an even bigger confrontation over raising the nation’s debt limit.
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By Lynn Doan, Pratish Narayanan and Lananh Nguyen, Bloomberg |
December 18, 2012
Retail gasoline prices in the U.S. fell to the lowest level in a year as refineries restored production and stockpiles rose to the most in eight months, blunting criticism of President Barack Obama’s energy policies.
