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The Fed turns a healthy profit in 2010

Oct 3, 2011
The Marketplace Daily Pulse is beating faster today thanks to all the profit raining down from American's central banking system, the Federal...

Iced out - Friendly's to file for bankruptcy

Sep 30, 2011
Riskiest restaurant stocks, based on Prof Ed Altman's Altman-Z score source: The Street.com There's nothing like an ice cream to boost your mor...
Riskiest restaurant stocks, based on Prof Ed Altman's Altman-Z score
The Street.com

Debit downer: BofA to charge card fee

Sep 29, 2011
Five bucks a month. That's what you'll be paying for a Bank of America debit card starting next year.
A woman walks past a Bank of America branch in the Financial District in Chicago, Ill.
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Murders & acquisitions -- traders are psycho: study

Sep 28, 2011
It's something that all of us, even traders themselves, have suspected -- traders are even more psycho than the average psycho!...

Goldman Sachs cuts go deep

Sep 27, 2011
Goldman Sachs announced several months ago that it would make deep cuts in its operations to save as much as $1.2 billion. Today we heard those c...
Financial professionals sit in the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange watch a television showing market news in New York City.
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Sweet tooth -- traders buy commodities

Sep 26, 2011
Commodities priced jumped today, after prices fell to a ten-moth low last week. Sugar spun up to its highest price in more than a month. Aluminum rose, and coffee perked up, too.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City.
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Stalled: U.S. consumers buying less gas

Sep 23, 2011
12-month average cost for self-serve regular. source: AAA The American Petroleum Institute says Americans consumed less gasoline in August than ...
12-month average cost for self-serve regular.
AAA

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Absolutely, positively pessimistic: FedEx

Sep 22, 2011
FedEx is not feeling good about the economy. The company's CEO, Fred Smith said today that he thinks we're in for a sluggish growth period for some time to come. That's depressing the Marketplace Daily Pulse today.
A FedEx worker steps out of his delivery truck in San Francisco, Calif.
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Plastic fantastic - credit card solicitations rocket

Sep 21, 2011
Credit card solicitations are double what they were last year. Business Insider got its hands on a research report by Credit Suisse, which says...

Reach for the sky! Airline fees ratchet higher

Sep 20, 2011
A USA Today study on airline fees says the fees airlines are charging for overweight bags and regular check-in luggage are the highest they've ever been. The news that one airline is even charging for cabin baggage threatened to give the Marketplace Daily Pulse a cardiac arrest today.