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National Top Stories
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Stock Futures Slump on Continued Stimulus Concerns
Stock futures are lower Friday as investors ponder the possibility that the Federal Reserve is open to winding down quantitative easing.
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5 Things to Know About Small Business This Week: May 24
The SBA steps up lending to military veterans; Google plans to transform small business; is there disaster aid for Okla. small businesses?; Quiznos/Smashburger founders' debut pizza concept; young employees' need mentoring.
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Stocks to Watch: Procter & Gamble, Pandora, Abercrombie & Fitch
Procter & Gamble is bringing back A.G. Lafley as CEO.
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TheDeal: Apax Offers to Take Back Rue21 in $1.1B Deal
Apax Partners will be taking back a greatly expanded unit. In addition to the deal, rue21 announced preliminary first quarter earnings.
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Stocks Fall as Fed, China Jolt Global Markets
Major U.S. stock averages on Thursday dip on fears of a Fed pullback and a China slowdown.
Small Business
5 Things to Know About Small Business This Week: May 24
The SBA steps up lending to military veterans; Google plans to transform small business; is there disaster aid for Okla. small businesses?; Quiznos/Smashburger founders' debut pizza concept; young employees' need mentoring.
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Veterans to Get More Small Business Loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration on Tuesday launched the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by 20 of the largest banking institutions to increase their lending activity to veterans by 5% per year through 2018.
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How Your Boss Can Help You Save for Retirement
U.S. workers having a tough time with retirement savings may have help from an unlikely source -- their employer.
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Cities Need More Starbucks, Not CityTargets
By not innovating now, brick and mortar retail such as Target poorly prepares itself to respond to inevitable disruption.
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How Dale Katechis Made Oskar Blues Beer a Can-Do Beer
Here's how a craft brewer converted a town of good ol' boys, made cans a standard and leapt cross-country.
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Why the End of 'Craft' Beer Is Just a Tax Break Away
In this civil war, it's brewer against brewer and the BEER Act against the Small BREW Act in Washington, D.C.
Real Estate
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Fannie Freddie Rally Returns With a Vengeance
Fannie shares now up 700% year to date, while preferred shares lag.
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Taubman's Tasty Preferred Shares
The common shares of the shopping-mall owner are expensive, but its preferred shares are worth a look.
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Apax Partners Retreads Rue21 Amid Retail Buyout Boom
Rue21 has agreed to its second buyout by private equity firm Apax Partners.
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Starwood Upgraded as Capital Return Eyed
Hotelier seen sitting on $7 in excess capital that could be returned to shareholders.
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Should You Give Your Realtor a Second Chance?
NEW YORK (MainStreet)—Hiring a realtor to sell your house typically involves signing a four-month contract with the real estate agency. Also see: 5 Questions to Ask…
Taxes & Regulations
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Tesla Is Just a Winning Stimulus as Fourth U.S. Automaker Emerges
Why taxpayers will only be able to view Tesla as a winning stimulus.
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Why JPMorgan Will Always Be a Better Villain Than Apple
'We love the iPhone and the iPad,' isn't a great way to shame a company.
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Apple Would Do Better Spending that Cash
Apple's should step out of a politically charged debate on taxation and into growth mode.
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Workers Know It: In Retirement Planning, They're On Their Own
Workers are taking responsibility for their finances at levels unseen in recent history, a study shows.
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Why the End of 'Craft' Beer Is Just a Tax Break Away
In this civil war, it's brewer against brewer and the BEER Act against the Small BREW Act in Washington, D.C.
Jim Cramer's Investing Ideas
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Cramer's Top Stock Picks: UNP CRM MWE HPQ ECOM
Cramer is riding the Union Pacific, thinks MarkWest is a great MLP and is in the clouds over Salesforce.com.
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'Mad Money' Lightning Round: Lumber Liquidators Is a Buy
Cramer loves ConocoPhillips and thinks Rentech Nitrogen is a keeper.
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: The Market and the Machines
U.S. markets are no longer bound to other countries, Cramer said, but now the machines are in control.
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'Mad Money' Lightning Round: I Like CVS Over Rite Aid
Cramer wants you to wait on Corning and AT&T and he's watching Oracle.
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Cramer's Top Stock Picks: CLH SIX WFM
Investors can clean up with Clean Harbors, have fun with Six Flags and dine out on Whole Foods, Cramer said.
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The Digital Skeptic: Eerie How Web's Future Looks Like Useless Erie Canal
Wonder of the world? Once, but it's not too early to call out the vision of a 50-million-mile Web trench to nowhere.
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This Is How Much Women Love Smartphones and Not You
Most women in a survey would give up sex before their smartphone -- which they'll use to break up with you.
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5 Reasons the Housing Market Will Keep On Rising
Home Depot's strong showing is just a bellwether of a good housing market to come, a Realtors group says.
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What You Wear to the Office Still Matters
A study shows 80% of U.S executives still say clothing choices are a big factor in hiring and promotions
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10 Family Vehicles You Can Still Look Cool In
Not ready to give in the minivan yet? Here are 10 vehicles with a sporty, urban and not-at-all parental facade.
Technology
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The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: May 24
In-flight needs of Abercrombie's CEO; Rupert Murdoch nurses a grudge; a Senate committee convenes to point out its own ignorance; and that's not all.
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The Mystery of Meg Whitman's HP
It's still hard to see what a highly profitable Hewlett-Packard might look like.
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Pandora Surges on Revenue Strength
Pandora shares are jumping in afterhours trading as investors cheer its revenue results.
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Salesforce.com Slumps on Outlook, ChannelAdvisor Stabilizes After Debut
Salesforce.com slumps after results and outlook match or fall below expectations.
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Windows Ad Turns The Table On Apple
Microsoft's new operating system TV ad compares "Apples" to Windows.
Your Career
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5 Things to Know About Small Business This Week: May 24
The SBA steps up lending to military veterans; Google plans to transform small business; is there disaster aid for Okla. small businesses?; Quiznos/Smashburger founders' debut pizza concept; young employees' need mentoring.
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What You Wear to the Office Still Matters
A study shows 80% of U.S executives still say clothing choices are a big factor in hiring and promotions
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14 Good Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree
New study identifies good careers where a high school diploma is enough.
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The Deal: Airline Unions Sign Pact To Ward Off Teamsters
Unions representing US Air and American ground workers agreed to work together to head off a Teamster takeover.
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Top 7 Things You Should Never Ask Your Intern to Do
Interns may be eager and affordable, but it doesn't mean you should trust them with every job.
Markets
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were eying a lower open Friday and signaling a third day of declines for the S&P 500 as investors awaited a report on durable-goods orders. Sentiment remained subdued as the market continued to ponder the possibility of a pullback in Federal Reserve stimulus and remained jittery about the state of China's economic strength.
Futures for the S&P 500 were falling 5.25 points, or 3.46 points below fair value, to 1,644.75. The index remains in positive territory for the week and the month.
"The Fed Chairman (Ben Bernanke) had made perfectly sensible comments, suggesting that liquidity would be withdrawn when the economy did not need it, but markets perhaps wanted an excuse to correct," noted Paul Donovan, the London-based global economist at UBS.
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