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GE's getting electric
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Sep 21, 2011
General Electric has just revved up interest in the emerging market for electric cars. The company announced today it will buy 25,000 electric...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Gold prices glitter and investors go "green"
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Nov 9, 2010
Gold hit records highs today, topping more than $1,412.75 an ounce. Why are investors putting their faith in gold? Will the Republicans take aim at...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Bonds and bags of money
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Oct 26, 2010
Today we learned about the U.S. Treasury, who for the first time ever is selling bonds with a negative rate of return. Translations? The investors...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Flight delays and electric cars
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Oct 19, 2010
Flight delays don't only cost you a lot of frustration and time -- they also happen to cost the country more than $32 billion a year. Jeremy Hobson...
Big business reacts to the health care overhaul...
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Oct 4, 2010
This morning's Wall Street Journal reports, the big manufacturer 3M says it will stop offering some kinds of health insurance because of the...
MID-DAY UPDATE: June new home sales rebound 24 percent ...
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Jul 26, 2010
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...And they're STILL at the second-lowest level on record. So there must be plenty of new houses on the market, right? Nope -- fewest i...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Why should you stress about Europe's banks?
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Jul 23, 2010
*The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...
Big Three selling jets, but just inching toward efficiency
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Dec 2, 2008
It looks like it's not just a buyer's market for automobiles, but for corporate jets....
Plugging electric cars
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Jul 24, 2008
If you're interested in the development of electric-car technology, you might enjoy C-Net's video report from the Plug-In 2008 car conference in...
Electric Minis coming to California?
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Jul 9, 2008
I drive a Mini Cooper S. As gas prices have continued to climb, I've been getting more comments from people saying they wished they had one. "I bet...
