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  • A new report that suggests the U.S. might not be spending enough money on the right airports. New data on durable goods, jobless claims, and pending home sales are out this morning. And, why people around the world are putting their toenails in the mail.

  •  YouGov BrandIndex has released a report on the brands favored by Democrats and Republicans. The top three brands for Democrats: Google, Amazon and Cheerios.
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    Los Angeles is one of many cities to offer tax breaks and financial incentives to attract new businesses. Manufacturing activity in October rises to a three month high and China eclipses the U.S. in foreign direct investment.

  • The littler iPad — a little late to the party — not Apple's usual timing. A breakdown of all the China-talk from last night's debate, and are businesses that took stimulus money now supporting politicians against the program?

  • There will be a lot of focus on who wins and loses tonight's final presidential debate, but there's sure to be one loser: China. Also get ready for Windows 8, and will changing CEOs really fix what's wrong at Citigroup?

  • Target broke ground on a new Chicago location this week at the site of the city's former Cabrini-Green housing project. The very wealthy have access to lots of things most of us don't, but what about when it's a matter or life or death?

  • No more Newsweek on the newsstand. Is China is deliberately slowing its own economy. U.S. students are carrying record student loan debt, and the risks and promises of Nissan routing your cars steering wheel through its computer.

  • Lance Armstrong hits the end of the road at Nike. The new "Suddenly CEO" at Citigroup. Gallup's take on last night's debate. The biggest for-profit college in the country, the University of Phoenix, is about to close half of its locations.

  • A sudden withdrawal from Citigroup — CEO Vikram Pandit is stepping down. Later this week China puts out its GDP growth for the latest quarter. It now looks like growth in China will be even slower than officials expected. What would it be like if Medicare went in for a check-up?

  • This year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics goes to Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley. US retail sales rose 1.1 percent last month. We were spending more on cars, gas and iPhones. Japan's third-largest wireless company, Softbank, has reached a deal to buy Sprint Nextel here in the U.S.

  • This latest earnings season continues today with profits from two of the country's largest banks. Martin Luther King, Elie Weisel, Aung San Suu Kyi — to these Nobel Peace Prize winners today we add the European Union. A couple weeks into the fall TV season, viewership is down 11 percent across the major broadcast networks.

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