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• Target announces midnight opening for Black Friday

• Small bank closed in Illinois; 85 failures in 2011

• Chase, Wells Fargo drop debit fees, BofA to adjust

• Ackman takes 12.2 pct stake in Canadian Pacific

• Chrysler CEO says 2-class wage structure has to go

• Clear Channel cuts jobs in regional reorganization

• Obama taking more steps on own to help businesses

• Nationalists emboldened by EU crisis, debt pact

• Civil disobedience in Greece grows over austerity

• Qantas Airways grounds global fleet due to strikes

• Oil prices lower a day after big gains

• Weekly US oil and gas rig count up by 8

• White House to review Energy Department loans

• Stocks finish mixed after Thursday's big rally

• HP, Coinstar, Baidu are big market movers

• NYSE price mix-up causes headaches

• Higher postage doesn't have to hurt small business

• Medicare premiums up -- but not as much as expected

• Claims for unemployment aid dip but remain high

• Contracts to buy homes fell 4.6 pct in Sept.

• Rate on 30-year fixed mortgage falls to 4.10 pct

• Fannie, Freddie could stop losing money by 2014

• Intel seeks dismissal of claims in antitrust suit

• Calif. women allege Wal-Mart bias in new lawsuit

• FINRA ordered by SEC to improve documents policies

• Chinese companies in tentative deal to buy Saab

• Japan factory output falls 4 pct in Sept.

• Eurozone wins respite, but it could be brief

• France revises down its growth forecast for 2012

• Georgia OKs Swiss plan in WTO talks with Russia

• Oil drops near $93, pausing 24 pct Oct. rally

• UN: Leaded fuel to be gone by 2014

• US natural gas supplies grew last week

• European debt deal lifts Dow by almost 340 points

• Hertz, Sony, Walt Disney are big market movers

• Moody's upgrades Ford, GM

• Wal-Mart out of NYC office and back to basics

• GM recalls SUVs to fix tire pressure monitors

• GM to invest $275M in Indiana truck plant

• Marlboro Man meets moisturizer

• CEO, 3 chairman to resign from Freddie Mac

• Supercommittee GOP, Democrats swap offers

• Flat tax renews fight on 'trickle-down economics'

• Pfizer, Medco collaborating on precision medicine

• Towns see crime, carousing surge amid gas boom

• Europe looks to China for possible bailout help

• Japan central bank expands monetary easing

• Young South Africans call for jobs, end to poverty

• Ericsson sells its Sony Ericsson stake to Sony

• Turkish quake highlights shoddy construction

• Oil jumps above $92 after Europe debt plan

• US crude oil supplies grow by 4.7 million barrels

• Yergin: Only politics can threaten energy supplies

• Stocks end higher on reports of help for Europe

• Amazon, DeVry, Panera Bread are big market movers

• Fewer hedge funds now subject to reporting rule

• Netflix shares tank amid backlash and defections

• AP: Insider charges for ex-Goldman board member

• Fed blocks MetLife dividend hike, stock buybacks

• New-home sales tick up as builders slash prices

• Poll: Many boomers staying put amid bad economy

• Measure of business investment plans up strongly

• UN, drugmakers to pool data on tropical diseases

• German parliament set to back Merkel on euro fund

• Italian consortium wins $900 million UAE rail deal

• IMF: Mideast oil importers face economic slowdown

• Oil prices fall 2 pct on big supply increase

• ConocoPhillips reports lower 3Q profit

• First Solar releases 3Q early after CEO departure

• Stronger earnings, business spending lift stocks

• 3M, Netflix, Under Armour are big market movers

• BE Aerospace boosts outlook; 3Q net income rises

• Lockheed Martin 3Q profit up 5 pct

• Northrop Grumman 3Q profit up 5 pct

• Low mortgage rates elude 'underwater' homeowners

• Harley to recall more than 308,000 motorcycles

• Labor Dept. issues investment advice regulation

• Government job losses a growing drag on recovery

• Price matters for holiday 2011 season

• FedEx expects to ship 17M packages on busiest day

• United, Continental, Delta raise fares again

• Mattel buying Thomas the Tank Engine's parent

• Insurer Cigna to buy HealthSpring for $3.8B

• Third of News shareholders against Murdoch's sons

• Harry & David names Craig Johnson as its CEO

• Execs admit guilt in auto parts price-fixing case

• Shanghai owners protest as developers slash prices

• Deutsche Bank beats estimates at $1.1 billion

• Novartis plans to cut 2,000 jobs despite profit rise

• UBS sees Q3 profit drop 39 pct due to rogue trade

• Oil rises to near $92 ahead of Europe debt plan

• Stocks reach highest level since August

• Caterpillar, Exelixis, Crocs are big market movers

• Rates fall at week's Treasury bill auction

• BP sees Q3 profit rise, to sell off more assets

• Coach fiscal 1Q profit rises 14 pct

• DuPont reports 23 pct increase in 3Q earnings

• Lee Enterprises: 4Q revenue to fall 4 percent

• Eaton celebrates 100-year heritage

• Generous small-business tax deduction is shrinking

• The McRib makes a McComeback

• Wal-Mart ups the ante in holiday price matching

• Mortgage insurer subsidiary seized by regulators

• Survey: Economists more bleak about US economy

• Cigarette maker Lorillard 3Q profit falls

• Port wine cherishes its past, looks for a future

• Chinese officials jailed for leaking economic data

• Chinese leader urges North Korea to better US ties

• Japan exports rise for 2nd month in recovery sign

• Abu Dhabi firm backtracks on Guggenheim contract

• Waves of austerity weaken Greek Socialists

• Vatican urges major economic reform

• Deeper flaws in euro will take years to fix

• Money woes trouble old allies Merkel, Sarkozy

• Nissan aims to be world No. 1 in green vehicles

• Oil above $88 amid signs of Asia economic strength

• Solar power is beginning to go mainstream

• Companies post profits but investors still worry

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