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Stocks quiet in pre-holiday trade
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Feb. 15 - U.S. stocks finished slightly mixed with the Dow and Nasdaq dented by consumer worries. The Dow slipped 28 points to 12,348. The S&P 500 gained a point. The Nasdaq shed 10 points to 2,321.
Oil prices settled above $95 a barrel.
Conway Gittens reports from New York.
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Oil adds to Wall St angst
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Apr 9 - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after oil touched a record $112 a barrel and a warning from United Parcel Service added to profit and economic jitters. The Dow fell 49 points to 12,527. The S&P 500 lost 11 points to 1,354. The Nasdaq shed 26 points to 2,322. Crude oil settled at record of $110.87 a barrel. Conway Gittens reports.
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Virgin Galactic unveils spaceship
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Jan 23 - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showed off models of a spaceship it hopes will take spacetravel mainstream. Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million reported cost of businessman Dennis Tito's trip on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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Financial meltdown timeline
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Sep 30 - What began as a housing problem has mushroomed into what may be the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.In September, the titans topple like dominos, then the Federal Reserve and the Treasury respond with a $700 billion bailout plan. Fred Katayama reports from New York.
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Boston frets as Wall St. shakes
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Oct. 16 - Momentous changes in the financial services industry are likely to have a negative impact on the city of Boston, the unofficial headquarters of the mutual fund industry.
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NASA finds proof of water on Mars
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Jul 31 - NASA scientists say they have definitive proof that water exists on Mars. NASA on Thursday also extended the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander by five weeks, saying its work was moving beyond the search for water to exploring whether the red planet was ever capable of sustaining life. Pavithra George reports.
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Wildfires rage across California
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Oct 13 - Officials report at least one person has died in wildfires raging across Southern California. Dousing flames from land and sky, more than 1000 firefighters are battling two major blazes on the northern fringe of Los Angeles. Katharine Jackson reports.
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A furry bundle of awww!
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Jan 9 - Nuremberg zoo's last surviving polar bear cub is spending some time away from its mother Vera, after one of the zoo's female polar bears ate her own cub.The German zoo bowed to media and public pressure and decided to hand rear the polar bear cub.
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U.S. job losses soar
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Nov. 7 - The American economy lost 240,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate climbed to a high not seen since March 1994.
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Wall Street on hold until vote
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Nov. 3 - The Dow inched 5 points lower to 9,319. The S&P 500 crept down 2 points to 966. The Nasdaq bucked the trend to rally for the fifth consecutive session, up 5 points to 1,726.
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Flocke on the prowl
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Feb. 22 - At ten weeks of age, little polar bear "Flocke" (Snowflake) is starting to grow into the the predator she was born to be. Zoo keepers looking after her stated the 16-pound bear was trying to shred everything in reach, using her teeth and claws.
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