AP Top Business News
Friday September 03, 2010, 3:17 AM, MDT
Swedish bank Carnegie buys troubled competitor
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MALIN RISING </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T08:40:45Z">2010-09-03T08:40:45Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish investment bank Carnegie AB Friday said it will buy competitor HQ Bank AB, which had its banking license revoked by the financial watchdog last week....</div>
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Jobs report may show rise in unemployment rate
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:38:14Z">2010-09-03T07:38:14Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate may be about to rise again....</div>
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Earl weakens but still powerful as it scoots by NC
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MIKE BAKER </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T08:21:34Z">2010-09-03T08:21:34Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Earl churned past the North Carolina Outer Banks and its powerful gusts and driving rains were starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia early Friday, the beginning of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast....</div>
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Asia stocks rise on slight improvement in US data
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">JOE McDONALD </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:44:03Z">2010-09-03T07:44:03Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BEIJING (AP) -- Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery....</div>
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Miami airport evacuated when suspicious item found
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALAN DIAZ </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T09:09:26Z">2010-09-03T09:09:26Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MIAMI (AP) -- A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said....</div>
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Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MICHAEL J. CRUMB </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:22:24Z">2010-09-03T07:22:24Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site....</div>
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Oil falls below $75 ahead of US jobs report
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T08:01:18Z">2010-09-03T08:01:18Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BANGKOK (AP) -- Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors awaited a report on U.S. employment that will influence guesses about the strength of future energy demand from the No. 1 economy....</div>
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China orders action to cool food prices
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:34:14Z">2010-09-03T07:34:14Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BEIJING (AP) -- China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor countries over surging food costs....</div>
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NZ tycoon unwraps packaging ambitions with US deal
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">RAY LILLEY </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T05:50:24Z">2010-09-03T05:50:24Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck driver and bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy more than a decade ago to become his country's richest person....</div>
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Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">TAMMY WEBBER </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:30:50Z">2010-09-03T07:30:50Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">CHICAGO (AP) -- With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract for the private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery, some are criticizing the selection process as too secretive and questioning whether it favors one powerful bidder....</div>
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