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Ford calls it quits in Australia

| May 23, 2013
Ford Motor Company is calling it quits in Australia, after a nearly 90-year run. The U.S. automaker says it will shut down its two factories down under and halt production in 2016.
Posted In: Australia, Auto, cars, Ford
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Japan markets down on stimulus jitters, China manufacturing data

| May 23, 2013
After an electrifying run over the past several weeks, stock markets around the world are down this morning.
Posted In: Japan, stock market
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5-23-13 Morning Open

| May 23, 2013
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Good years for cicadas have been good years for stocks

| May 23, 2013
According to Marketwatch, cicadas may serve as decent market forecasters.
Posted In: alternative indicators, cicadas
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What happens when a billionaire faces Congressional confirmation?

| May 20, 2013
Commerce Secretary nominee and Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker will have to shift her billions to avoid conflicts of interest, and prepare for questions about the family business.
Posted In: Commerce Department, Congress, Obama
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Marketplace Tech for Monday, May 20, 2013

| May 20, 2013

It's been in the pipeline for several weeks. But now it looks like a Yahoo purchase of the blogging website Tumblr is happening. Yahoo's board agreed on Sunday to pony up for Instagram-sized pricetag: $1.1 billion. For Tumblr and its 26-year-old founder David Karp, the buy could offer an influx of advertising and business savvy. The website AllThingsD first reported the deal. Kara Swisher, co-founding editor of AllThingsD, says this is a big part of a mission for Yahoo's new chief Marissa Mayer -- a mission to make the aging Internet company cool again.

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Friday furloughs mean less services

| May 24, 2013
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?
Posted In: furlough, government, HUD, IRS, sequester, sequestration
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Cash, dough, loot, moolah, bread, bank, bucks. Whatever you call it, money is important to us. Very important. For better or for worse, it's a factor in every major decision we make. American Public Media's Marketplace looks at major national and international stories that impact the average listener's wallet. It's "the money show for the rest of us."
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PODCAST: It's electric, boogie woogie woogie

| May 22, 2013
The value of autistic employees. Could the country's largest public power utility really become private? And who is Daniel Werfel?

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