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...High oil prices are supposed to be bad for the economy. But, near term, energy stocks may be the one part of the overall market that can push it much higher. Investors will get to pay more for gas so that the value of their portfolios can rise...
Another month, another 600,000-plus jobs gone. That was the big message from the March employment report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which saw nonfarm employment drop by 663,000 and the unemployment rate rise...
...addition to problems of subjectivity, this tentative transformation may stem from trends in the broader art community, which has seen a rise in more conceptual, installation type works...
...said. “That’s fair. In fact, I agree with that. We’re just here if you do choose to smoke. I just find the rate unfair.” Leavitt & Peirce customer Joseph D. Reaves, said that he felt that the recent rise in tobacco taxes was ludicrous. “I think it’s just another vice tax. [The government is] trying to balance the budget on the backs of smokers,” he said. Some local smokers said they agreed with MacDonald and mentioned that the tax hike...
Although his rise to the Russian presidency was marred by allegations that he was simply a puppet of former President Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev has shown a few signs of branching out on his own. In a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Europe this week, he agreed to arms-control talks in order to cut weapons stockpiles and prevent the spread of nukes to Iran and North Korea. The talks are to be followed by another meeting between the two leaders in July. "We have considerably more positions that bring us together than those that force us apart...