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Marketplace for Tuesday October 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014

Marketplace for Tuesday October 28, 2014

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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. Are reports of the end of stimulus misleading? Plus, Twitter is not growing users fast enough. How can the social network make itself essential to the masses and investors?

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Want the best price online? Good luck with that.

Oct 27, 2014
It's tough to detect or beat systems that show you "personalized" prices for products

A holiday rush at ports piles up cargo

Oct 28, 2014
The bottleneck could delay shipments with a strict yuletide deadline.

The 21-year-old who owns a factory in China

Oct 28, 2014
Alex Shlaferman founded his multi-million-dollar company at the age of 16

What the end of Quantitative Easing will and won't mean

Oct 28, 2014
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. What has been the effect of quantitative easing? And are reports of the end of stimulus misleading?

CNN takes the Empire State Building

Oct 28, 2014
If you want to know who's ahead, just look up.

Should Twitter have to measure up to Facebook?

Oct 28, 2014
Twitter takes a hit because of slow growth in what counts to investors: users.

Michael Lewis: Wall Street is "lost"

Oct 28, 2014
Twenty-five years after "Liar's Poker," Wall Street is more secretive and less powerful

Haunted houses make scary money

Oct 28, 2014
More than one in five Americans plans to visit a spooky attraction this year.

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. Are reports of the end of stimulus misleading? Plus, Twitter is not growing users fast enough. How can the social network make itself essential to the masses and investors?

Music from the episode