NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell on Thursday, extending earlier losses after a reading on Midwest business growth was revised downward, though it remained in expansionary territory.

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The Detroit Lions have sold out their season finale against the Chicago Bears, avoiding a local television blackout. Fox owns the national broadcast rights to the game. The team announced Thursday a few hundred tickets returned by the Bears are for sale….

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Lions sell out finale, putting game on local TV

Weinstein Co., the independent film studio, said it’s in talks with a potential partner who will provide cash to acquire films.

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Weinstein Co. Negotiating to Establish Film-Acquisition Fund

New York Governor David Paterson said he concurs with a comptroller’s estimate that the state will end the year with a $283 million cash balance.

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New York Governor Says State to End Year with Positive Balance

AT&T Inc. cut ties with Tiger Woods after his admissions of marital infidelity, following at least two other companies in backing away from their endorsements of the world’s top-ranked golfer.

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AT&T Cuts Tiger Woods as Scandal Won’t ‘Simmer Over’ (Update1)

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has created or saved 50,000 jobs with its $10 billion in federal stimulus funds, boosting medical research and returning $2.25 on the dollar in goods and services, the agency’s director Francis Collins said.

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NIH Stimulus Money Adds Jobs and Research After Funding Lag

Total money market mutual fund assets rose by $21.73 billion to $3.294 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. Assets of the nation’s retail money market mutual funds fell by $2.88 billion in the latest week to $1.068 trillion….

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Cruising through the darkness in rough seas, the USS Ross encountered a rogue wave that smashed into the destroyer’s bow, sending a shudder along the entire ship that knocked sleeping crew out of their bunks and damaged the sonar housing. As alarms sounded,…

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DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. auto sales are expected to end 2009 on a slight upswing in December, capping a year that saw General Motors and Chrysler collapse into bankruptcy and China overtake the United States as the biggest car market.

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U.S. auto sales may end bleak 2009 on minor uptick

BOSTON (Reuters) – For hedge funds, 2009 will be remembered as one of the industry’s best ever — a year when managers delivered strong gains after 2008′s drubbing and investors returned to the fray with new money.

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Strong hedge gains help end ’09 on high note

Restaurant chains and beef processors defended their products’ safety Thursday after a report that an ammonia treatment thought to kill harmful germs in meat isn’t as effective as the industry and regulators believed. The New York Times reported Thursday,…

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Customers back ammonia-treated beef after report

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli plans to audit the branch of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office that acts as collection bureau for the state. The Civil Recoveries Bureau sues to recover debts to New York, like unpaid state university tuition and…

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After a new law imposing stricter regulations on the payday lending industry takes effect Jan. 1, Ken Weaver is not optimistic his two check-cashing stores in eastern Washington will remain open. The new law limits the size of a payday loan to 30 percent of a…

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Wells Fargo & Co.’s four top executives won’t get cash bonuses for 2009, but are receiving performance-based stock awards currently worth a combined $25 million that are designed to keep them from being lured away by rival banks. Wells Fargo announced the…

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The office of Engineering Extension at South Dakota State University is offering a 10-hour safety and health course for the ethanol industry. The two-day workshop includes an outline of OSHA standards, environmental health controls, fire protection, grain…

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Ethanol safety training to be offered in SD