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- Agriculture futures trade lower on the Chicago Board of Trade; beef and pork prices mixed
- Agriculture futures fell Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
- World markets rise as US job losses ease, but gains capped as investors remain cautious
- Stock markets mostly rose Friday after official data showed U.S. job losses eased somewhat in August, suggesting the world's largest economy is recovering, although sluggishly.
- Stocks rise modestly after report shows slower pace of job cuts but higher unemployment rate
- A mixed report on job losses and unemployment for August nudged the stock market higher Friday.
- Oil prices fall after report shows unemployment rate reaching 26-year high
- Oil prices fell on Friday after the government reported that the unemployment rate moved to a 26-year high, raising fresh concerns that energy demand will remain weak even if the economy is heading out of the recession.
- WTO says it has given confidential ruling on Airbus-Boeing dispute to EU, US
- The World Trade Organization on Friday handed the United States and European Union its long-awaited intial decision in their dispute over government financing for airplane makers.
- Nearly 1 in 5 older Americans believed to be in poverty - almost double the official rate
- The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
- Coca-Cola to invest $200 million in Vietnam in the next 3 years
- Coca-Cola Co. says it plans to invest an additional $200 million in Vietnam in the next three years.
- Publisher of The Hartford Courant apologizes to readers for plagiarizing competitors
- The top executive of The Hartford Courant is apologizing for the newspaper's plagiarism of other media organizations' work over the past several weeks.
- Indiana officials ask US Supreme Court to hear objections to Chrysler bankruptcy
- Indiana officials want the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider their objections to the Chrysler bankruptcy proceedings that resulted in the sale of the bulk of the automaker's assets to Italy's Fiat.
- Maine expands its 1st-in-nation program, distributes laptops to high schoolers
- The state that was first to provide laptops to every seventh and eighth grader in its public schools is taking its campaign to the high schools, and Maine's top education official vowed Thursday that every high school student will have a laptop computer within two years.
