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Dan Akerson, who became chief executive officer at General Motors Co. in 2010, gives himself a “B” for his performance so far. He has too much work to do to think about retiring for at least another year or two, he said.
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YPF SA, Argentina’s largest oil producer, is asking creditors to issue waivers on part of its $1.6 billion debt after the government’s takeover and said it risks being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
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U.S. stocks swung between gains and losses, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell to a three- month low, as concern about Europe’s debt crisis offset better- than-estimated data on housing starts and industrial production.
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Wheat rose the most since March on speculation that hot, dry weather will curb production in Kansas, the biggest U.S. grower of winter varieties.
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Viacom Inc., owner of the Paramount film studio and MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, agreed to resolve a legal dispute with Time Warner Cable Inc., letting cable customers see its shows on more devices.
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Mitt Romney, attacking President Barack Obama for the second consecutive day for swelling the federal debt, said the president has done “almost nothing to fix” the deficits amassed over eight years by former President George W. Bush.
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House Speaker John Boehner revived Republicans’ insistence that any increase in the nation’s debt limit be matched by at least as much in spending cuts, positioning his party for a renewed standoff with Democrats over the federal budget.
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Lawyers for John Edwards rested their defense today without calling the former presidential candidate to testify at his trial over alleged campaign-donation violations.
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Executives from four renewable-energy companies defended a U.S. Energy Department loan-guarantee program that House Republicans said showed failures in President Barack Obama’s job-creating efforts.
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Two people paralyzed by strokes were able to control robotic arms by using only their thoughts, a medical advance that may one-day lead to the developement of more -sophisticated prosthetic limbs.
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We can already see the next six months in American politics: Tit for tat. Blow for blow. You’re Richie Rich. You’re Jimmy Carter. This is what presidential elections have been about since 1800. The only difference is that we have YouTube instead of the Pony Express, so the noise is louder and more constant.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director Henry Cornell, at the Whitney Museum American Art Award dinner last night, talked about art and work.
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Andrew Bynum and Devin Ebanks of the Los Angeles Lakers were fined a total of $40,000 by the National Basketball Association for separate violations.
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French President Francois Hollande named Pierre Moscovici, a former European Affairs minister and a self-proclaimed social democrat, his finance minister.







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