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NEWS ABOUT: financial data

financial data stories: 3 news summaries

 Bloomberg Gets 
 BusinessWeek for $5M 

Financial-news giant founded by current NYC mayor promises it won't gut mag

Oct 13, 09 9:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Financial-news giant Bloomberg is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek, acquiring the 80-year-old magazine for between $2 and $5 million from parent McGraw-Hill, plus any liabilities associated with the purchase—not exactly a princely sum. “We are not buying BusinessWeek to gut it. We are buying it to build it,... More »

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mergers and acquisitions • publishing • BusinessWeek • McGraw-Hill • Bloomberg LP • financial data

ID-Theft Ring Victimized Bernanke

Thieves used pickpocketed IDs, checkbooks for fraud

Aug 27, 09 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - No less a public figure than the chairman of the Federal Reserve was one of 500 individuals victimized by an identity-theft ring that combined technologically sophisticated methods with old-fashioned thievery to bilk $2.1 million from consumers and financial institutions, Newsweek reports. The ringleader of the group, Clyde Austin Gray... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Starbucks • Federal Reserve • identity theft • bank fraud • check fraud • financial data • Anna Bernanke

MARKETS

 Dow Ends Big Week Up 13 


Jun 5, 09 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The markets stalled today even as the Dow flirted with its peak for the year, the Wall Street Journal reports. An early rally on better-than-expected job loss data lost steam on news that the unemployment rate itself grew to its highest since 1983. And insiders aren’t sure that... More »

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NASDAQ • New York Stock Exchange • Dow Jones • unemployment • job cuts • S&P 500 • job • financial data • energy sector

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