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March 15, 2013 - These days, you might be surprised to receive a call from a realtor looking to sell your house -- even if it's not on the market. Mary Beth Harrison, a Dallas real estate agent, has been scouring tax records and contacting homeowners with lots of equity in their homes in the hopes they may be persuaded to sell. "That's how hot things are now," she told Bloomberg.com contributor Carla Fried when Fried wrote recently about the spring home-selling season.
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body has been buried in a Muslim cemetery near Richmond, Virginia, according to the death certificate filed at Boston’s city hall.
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There may be no government action more universally reviled in the U.S. than bank bailouts. Republicans and Democrats, financial industry lobbyists and watchdogs, Wall Street executives and President Barack Obama say taxpayers should never again rescue a failing bank.
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Greenhill & Co., the merger adviser GrainCorp Ltd. hired to consider Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.’s bid, is itself a potential target for firms looking to add banking expertise on optimism deal-making will resurge.
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U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.
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The Boston Athletic Association’s first race since last month’s Boston Marathon bombings sold out its 6,500 spots for the first time in just over 13 hours.
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body has been buried, according to Worcester, Massachusetts, police who didn’t disclose the location.
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The selection of Brazil’s Roberto Azevedo as the next head of the World Trade Organization may help ease emerging markets’ resistance to removing barriers as part of global trade talks.
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Five of the ten best-paid finance chiefs last year work in the technology industry, as executives at companies from Apple Inc. to Google Inc. were rewarded for increasing profit, amassing cash and minimizing taxes.
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William C. Cox Jr., the patriarch of the Bancroft clan that controlled Dow Jones & Co. for 105 years and sold it to News Corp. after Rupert Murdoch’s bid sparked a family feud, has died. He was 82.
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