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Receiving $54 million in consulting fees for a decade’s work on her own family’s offshore trusts is unusual and probably saved U.S. Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker on taxes, according to estate experts.
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Updated 30 minutes ago
The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 for their third straight victory, tying the game on Travis Hafner’s ninth-inning home run before winning it with two runs in the 10th.
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Updated 29 minutes ago
Hedge funds led by Paulson & Co. and Maverick Capital are piling into mortgage insurers in a bet that some of the companies worst hit by the U.S. housing crash will be among the biggest winners in the rebound.
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Updated 55 minutes ago
B456 Systems Inc., the bankrupt electric-car battery maker formerly called A123 Systems Inc., won court approval of a plan to exit bankruptcy that pays creditors from the proceeds of selling virtually all its assets.
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A round of destructive weather is expected to strike an area from Illinois to Texas next week, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a stake in Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. in a bet that the construction company will benefit from infrastructure spending as customers liquefy natural gas and use it as a feedstock.
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James D. Jones III has been drafting new drawings of the piping at an Atlanta-area factory on a contract for ManpowerGroup Inc. for the last 10 months. When this job ends, he says it will be easy to find another.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose cutback of public-employee compensation two years ago made him a national model of Republican strength, now is trying to scrap century-old civil-service rules.
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Hog futures rose for the first time in a week on signs of shrinking supplies of U.S. pork amid rising demand. Cattle prices fell.
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The Golden State Warriors held on to a big lead this time to end a 30-game losing streak in San Antonio and even their playoff series against the Spurs, while the Miami Heat had a record-setting win to tie their series with the Chicago Bulls.
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