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A 1930 Ford Model A used by bank robber John Dillinger to evade federal agents sold at auction Saturday for $165,000.
The car, sold at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., had a cameo role in the 2009 movie "Public Enemies" starring Johnny Depp.
This car was used in Dillinger’s 1934 escape from the […]
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The world’s biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, said Thursday that it has agreed to freeze planned job cuts in Belgium to get workers to drop a two-week brewery blockade causing beer shortages at supermarkets and bars.
The company and Belgian trade unions said they struck a deal that postpones the brewer’s plans to […]
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Did you purchase a home after Nov. 6? Don’t expect your $8,000 homebuyer tax credit any time soon.
UPDATED: IRS releases new form, begins accepting claims again
Since Congress passed the tax credit last February as part of the stimulus program, more than 1.4 million buyers have scrambled to take advantage of it, according to […]
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Yahoo Inc. gave its support to rival Google Inc. Wednesday, denouncing an alleged cyber attack originating in China against Google’s network infrastructure.
"We condemn any attempts to infiltrate company networks to obtain user information," a Yahoo representative said in an e-mail statement. "We stand aligned with Google that these kinds of attacks are deeply disturbing […]
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The replacement of Japan’s finance minister four months into the government’s term increases concern about the commitment to rein in budget deficits, Moody’s Investors Service said.
“Japan’s fiscal strategy unknowns deepen” with the appointment of Naoto Kan last week, Thomas Byrne, senior vice president of Moody’s in Singapore, wrote in a note today.
Byrne’s […]
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State regulators seized Horizon Bank on Friday evening, making it Washington’s first bank failure of 2010 and the fourth community bank to be seized in the state in the last 13 months.
Washington Federal Inc., of Seattle, quickly snapped up the failed Bellingham bank from regulators, according to information released by the state Department of Financial […]
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The Toronto stock market built on the solid gains of the previous session Tuesday morning thanks to a small upswing among mining stocks.
The S&P/TSX composite index was up 36.3 points to 11,903.2 after strong manufacturing data from the U.S. and China raised commodity prices and lifted the main index 121 points.
The Canadian dollar […]
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South Korea’s exports increased at the fastest pace in 17 months, adding to signs that Asia’s fourth-largest economy is recovering from the global recession.
Overseasshipments gained 33.7 percent in December from a year earlier to $36.2 billion, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said today. That was more than the median 27.9 percent forecast in […]
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