Target's 1Q profit drops 29 pct on weak sales

Target's 1st-qtr profit drops 29 pct on weak sales as weather, financial pressures take toll

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Lowe's 1Q profit rises, but results miss Street

Lowe's 1st-quarter profit climbs but performance misses analysts' expectations

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Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

Bernanke warns that premature ending of Fed's stimulus efforts would carry substantial risks

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Stocks fall on news Fed weighed cutting stimulus

Stocks fall after Fed minutes show policymakers had weighed a pullback on its stimulus program

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Iceland forms center-right govt, halts EU talks

Iceland forms new center-right govt, plans to halt talks on joining 27-nation European Union

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Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog

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EU steps up fight against tax evasion by end 2013

EU's 27 leaders agree to important step in fight against tax evasion by year's end

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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain

Fiat Industrial denies major damage to Italian tax receipts if shifts tax home to Britain

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Weak yen a help for Japan, but headache elsewhere

Falling yen may help Japan, but proving a headache for other countries, especially in Asia

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'BOOM TOWN BABY': African stock markets see gains

'BOOM TOWN BABY': African stock markets see big gains; Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria up big

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IMF calls on Britain to do more for growth

IMF praises British government's flexibility over austerity, but warns more growth needed

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Stocks edge higher as investors watch the Fed

Stocks open slightly higher on Wall Street as investors watch the Federal Reserve

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Germans, French eye plan to create jobs for young

Germany, France seek to fight EU youth unemployment, aim for better use of existing funds

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Sprint boosts buyout offer for Clearwire

Sprint raises buyout offer for Clearwire by 14 percent; still opposed by minority shareholder

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Futures rise; all eyes on the Fed

US stock futures rising before Bernanke remarks, Fed minutes and housing sales numbers

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Kerry praises $2.1 billion Raytheon deal in Oman

In Oman, Kerry praises completion of $2.1 billion air defense deal with Raytheon

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IMF softens views on UK government's policies

The International Monetary Fund has softened its assessment of the British government's economic policies, saying in a report Wednesday that it did well to ease its pace of austerity cuts, but stressing more was needed to support the recovery.

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JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum

JPMorgan shareholders let CEO Jamie Dimon keep chairman job

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Senate panel approves immigration bill

Senate committee OKs bill with path to citizenship for millions in the country illegally

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Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases

Ex-executives of Ford's Argentina subsidiary charged in torture of workers during dictatorship

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