Archive for November 21st, 2008

Stocks rallied Friday, with the Dow industrials closing up 494 points after reports surfaced that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate New York Federal Bank President Timothy Geithner as his new Treasury secretary.

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Last week, the Paris-based International Energy Agency released its World Energy Outlook 2008 - a 578-page book full of future supply, demand, and price estimates which this year also included an eagerly-awaited study of 800 of the world's largest oil fields.

Cash strapped Christmas shoppers will have a tighter hold on their pocketbooks this holiday season, according to a national consumer survey released Friday.

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Dell Inc., reporting lower quarterly earnings and revenue, said Thursday that the global economic slowdown has caused consumers and businesses to pull back on technology spending.

Standing at the factory gate he once entered for 33 years is like visiting a cemetery for George Hall.