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20 May 2010 10:34

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Biz: Jobless claims went up this weekend; stocks freak out

  • +25,000 the jump in new initial jobless claims, the first jump in over a month
  • -3% the size of the average drops for the three major stock indexes source

18 Mar 2009 12:59

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Politics: NBC boss big-ups CNBC, trashes Jon Stewart

  • Everybody wants to find a scapegoat. That’s human nature. But to suggest that the business media or CNBC was responsible for what is going on now is absurd.
  • NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker • On Jon Stewart’s repeated trashing of his financial network, which he called “unfair.” Just when we were ready for this story to die, the big guy on top had to open his trap … • source