HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian shares were flat on Friday, ending the month with losses on continued investor concern over the world economy and the financial system, while safety bids such as dollar buying erased some of their recent gains.

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Dell Inc expects its Asia revenue to fall this year, amid heated competition and the global slowdown, but it still expects to pick up share in the PC markets in China and India, a top executive said on Friday.

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Dell sees 2009 contraction in Asia amid sales slump

The New York attorney general’s office has subpoenaed Bank of America Corp. seeking the names of Merrill Lynch executives who received $3.6 billion in year-end bonuses, after Chief Executive Ken Lewis failed to provide those details during a lengthy…

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The factory where laid-off workers staged a highly publicized sit-in last year has been sold to a California company that hopes to rehire workers and reopen the factory in about a month. The sale of the former Republic Windows and Doors plant to Sunnyvale,…

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Chicago factory where workers held sit-in sold

The Rocky Mountain News has long been a scrapper: It beat the Cherry Creek Pioneer by 20 minutes to become Denver’s first newspaper on April 23, 1859, and it survived an 1864 flood that swept away its building. Along the way it won numerous accolades,…

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Scrappy Rocky Mountain News closing its doors

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government and Citigroup have reached a deal to convert up to $25 billion in government-held preferred shares in the bank to common equity, a person familiar with the transaction said early on Friday.

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Aspen Ice in Randolph may be larger than two NHL-sized rinks, but it uses a third less energy than it did two years ago. Savings like that earned the ice skating arena and its owner, Robert Carragino, the 2008 clean…

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Adviser and academic studies agree that the key to reaching your investment goals is asset allocation — the percentage of stocks, bonds and cash in your portfolio — and not the specific investments you choose. Since the start of the…

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Get A Clue About: Target Funds

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc and the United States have reached an agreement in which the government will substantially raise its stake in the bank, but demand a boardroom shakeup, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services wants to offer no more than 31 percent in new shares to a strategic investor, the Mint newspaper reported on Friday, citing a company source familiar with the matter.

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How the Crisis Is Hitting Europe

Olajide Hay scored 22 points and Tennesee-Martin defeated Eastern Kentucky 74-55 on Thursday night. Hay shot 10-for-12 from the field and added 12 rebounds for the Skyhawks (20-8, 13-4 Ohio Valley Conference). Lester Hudson added 17 points, nine rebounds and…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s top legal officer on Thursday demanded Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis provide names of Merrill Lynch executives who received 2008 bonuses, and how much they got, before the bank’s takeover of the firm in January.

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Yahoo’s Bartz Shows Who’s Boss

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