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| Bank of America ends overdraft fees on debit cards
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 AP - Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It's a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.
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| China February exports jump 45.7 percent
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 AP - China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise.
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| Curbing derivatives might hurt, not help, Greece
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 AP - Derivatives have become a dirty word.
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| Sarkozy to take tanker fight to Obama
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| AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will raise concerns that the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion tanker contract is anticompetitive when he visits President Barack Obama later this month, a spokesman said Wednesday. |
| Senate to pass jobless aid, business tax breaks
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| AP - Legislation blending help for the jobless with popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals is slated to pass the Senate Wednesday over protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt. |
| Stock futures narrowly mixed ahead of opening
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 AP - Investors are searching for direction Wednesday, after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures are narrowly mixed.
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| U.S. SEC's chief economist to leave agency March 31
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| Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's chief economist, James Overdahl, will be leaving at the end of the month, he said on Tuesday. |
| Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast
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| Reuters - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday. |
| Axel Springer 2009 net income falls 45 percent
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| AP - German publisher Axel Springer AG said Wednesday that net income fell 45 percent in 2009 to euro314 million ($427 million), with a drop in demand for newspapers and magazines mitigated only partially by new Internet revenues. |
| Turkey, IMF end loan talks
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| AP - Turkey says it and the International Monetary Fund have mutually agreed to call off talks for a loan. |
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