Crime
Couple Convicted of Stealing Hybrid Car Trade Secrets from GM
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A former General Motors engineer and her husband were found guilty on Friday of conspiring to steal hybrid technology trade secrets for possible use by Chinese carmaker Chery Automobile. Shanshan Du and her husband, Yu Qin, will be sentenced in February.
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Missouri Powerball Winners Are Mechanic and Wife
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A 52-year-old Missouri mechanic and his wife claimed their share Friday of the record $588 million Powerball jackpot. Mike and Cindy Hill are taking the lump sum option, which means that after taxes, they will receive about $136.5 million.
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Holiday Shopping Calendar: Your List of the Best Days to Buy
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Black Friday has been around for decades, but in the last several years, the holiday shopping season has gained a number of additional "special" shopping days. So if you're looking for the right days for deals, (or when to avoid the crowds) here's a run-down of all the retail deal days worth knowing.
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This Week's 5 Best Moves and Blunders in Business
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Companies can do brilliant things, but there are also times where they fall flat on their faces. Sometimes CEOs can save the day, but at other times, they say and do the darndest things. There were plenty of winners and blunders this week. Let's check out some of them.
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'Santa' Showers $100 Bills On Storm-Hit N.J., N.Y.
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A wealthy Missouri man posing as "Secret Santa" stunned New Yorkers, handing $100 bills to many in Staten Island who had lost everything to Superstorm Sandy. The Kansas City businessman is giving away $100,000 this holiday season.
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Retailer So Hard Up for N.D. Staff, It's Flying Them From Wisconsin
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Home improvement retailer Menard says it will hire 50 workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch, a region that has more jobs than takers.
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Women Investors: Smarter Than the Men in Every Way?
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Financial services companies have a habit of publishing "special reports on women and investing," and their conclusions tend to describe women in less-than-flattering terms. But a new TD Ameritrade study once again shows why such stereotypes totally miss the mark.
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$19,000 Worth of Macy's Watches Stolen in 13 Seconds
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A Macy's in Texas was the site of a shocking crime several weeks ago, when three man walked into the Macy's at Firewheel Town Center in Garland. They grabbed displays of watches on the counter breaking the chains and taking off -- with 80 pieces off merchandise.
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CNNMoney's Money Heroes Offer Their Best Financial Advice
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The people CNNMoney has saluted over the past year for improving others' finances have some more help to offer: sound advice for you.
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4 Must-Dos for Your Year-End Investing Checkup
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With 2012 coming to an end, now's a good time to pause and take a look at your investing performance over the past year. By taking some time to evaluate the moves you made with your money, both good and bad, it's ...
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Can a Dollar Menu Push Bring More Dollars Back to McDonald's?
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McDonald's franchisees have spoken. They're fine with the world's largest restaurant chain beefing up its Dollar Menu in an effort to reverse a recent sales decline. What they aren't cool with is breaking the buck with even lower-priced offerings.
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Record Powerball Result of Changes to Boost Sales
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The historic Powerball jackpot boosted to $500 million on Tuesday was all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this year to build jackpots faster, drive sales and generate more money for states that run the game. Their plan appears to be working.
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Is Nokia Toast? Cell Phone Maker Still Has All the Wrong Answers
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Nokia's stock price has nearly doubled since hitting bottom last summer, but it's premature to call this a turnaround for the company that, until recently, was the world's largest cell phone maker. If anything, at least one analyst sees this as a selling opportunity.
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U.S. Economy Grew at 2.7 Percent Rate in Summer
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The U.S. economy grew at a 2.7 percent annual rate from July through September, much faster than first thought. The strength is expected to fade in the final months of the year because of uncertainty about looming tax increases and government spending cuts.
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My Mom's 3 Biggest Money Management Secrets Revealed
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Everything I ever needed to know to succeed in life, I learned from my mother. Although I didn't realize it at the time, her maternal management even taught me how to make the most of my money. Here are the three best tricks she ever showed me, and how you can make them work for you.
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Extreme Shoppers Score $8,000 of Stuff for $1,300
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How's this for holiday savings: Bringing home a haul of remote control cars, tablets, coats and boots worth $8,000 for just $1,300. That's what extreme couponer Joni Crothers and her "coupon-tourage" accomplished on a Black Friday shopping spree to fulfill the wish lists of 16 children in need.
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Senate Dems Split on Cutting Benefits to Get Fiscal Cliff Deal
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Deep divisions among Senate Democrats over whether cuts to Medicare and Medicaid should be part of a plan to slow the growth of the federal debt pose a big obstacle to a deal for avoiding a potentially economy-crushing "fiscal cliff," even if Republicans agree to raise taxes.
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Fed Survey: U.S. Economy Growing at a Steady Pace
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A pickup in consumer spending and steady home sales helped lift economic growth in October and early November in most parts of the United States, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday. The one exception was the Northeast, which was slowed by Superstorm Sandy.
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Unemployment Rates Fall in Half of Large U.S. Cities
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Unemployment rates declined last month in more than half of the 372 largest U.S. cities, further evidence of steady improvement in the job market. The Labor Department says rates fell in 201 metro areas. They rose in 116 and were unchanged in 55.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Schools Nintendo Wii U in the Sales Game
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Nintendo has sold 400,000 Wii U consoles since the system's Nov. 18 launch, plus another 300,000 original Wii units last week. But Microsoft is still the gaming king: Its Xbox 360 outsold both systems combined, moving 750,000 consoles during the Black Friday holiday weekend.
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Companies' Last Tax Dodge of 2012: Paying December Dividends
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Furniture retailer Ethan Allen Interiors this week became the latest company to move its dividend distribution up to December -- a shift that will help shareholders avoid the tax increases on such payouts that are coming in 2013. Is that good business, or bad corporate citizenship?
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Five Big Surprises from Black Friday and Cyber Monday
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two most heavily hyped shopping days of the season, are behind us: Online retail sales were fantastic, and Amazon and Walmart had nice weekends. But anyone could have predicted that. Here are a few results of the big shopping weekend you probably didn't see coming.
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In Retirement Planning, Don't Forget to Do the Emotional Math, Too
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Many financial advisors might make retirement planning out to be an exact science. Their financial calculators will spit out hard numbers, detailing almost to the day when you can quit working. Reality, however, isn't So exact, and those calculators miss a host of subjective emotional factors that you shouldn't ignore.
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Holy Car Auction, Batman! Original Batmobile for Sale
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The real, one-and-only, original Batmobile used in the 1960s "Batman" TV series is expected to go up for auction in January, the Barrett Jackson auto auction house said Thursday. The car could sell for millions, said Craig Jackson, chief executive of the auction firm.
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The Downside of Credit Unions
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Credit union membership is at an all-time high, thanks to our rising disillusionment with traditional banks. Banks, after all, are run by executives aiming to enrich stockholders, while credit unions are owned by, and run for the benefit of, their members. But that doesn't mean credit unions are right for everyone.
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How Costco Became the Anti-Walmart
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Both Costco and Walmart are places where people go to buy in bulk and save money. But while Walmart employees are striking for higher wages and healthcare, Costco has among the happiest employees in the business, and also offers the occasional brand name.
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There are many things you can do to lower your electric bill, but going the extra mile to make your home energy efficient can save you hundreds per month. Here's how one New York homeowner did it.
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