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The attorney, Patricia Millett, asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to decide that the government acted improperly to persuade a judge in March 2008 to permit a wiretap to be placed on Raj Rajaratnam's cellphone.
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Aetna said that next year it will shift even more of its commercial and Medicare business to these groups, known as accountable care organizations, which are offered incentives to improve the quality of care while lowering costs. Medicare is the government health plan for older Americans.
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NEW YORK-- Amid worries that the recovery in travel demand may have "lost its steam," shares of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. dropped Thursday afternoon. The Stamford, Conn., company expects to earn between 64 and 66 cents per share in the last three months of the year.
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NEW YORK-- In a story Oct. 23 about the boom in U.S. oil production, The Associated Press misidentified the year and amount of peak U.S. oil output. US could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as world's biggest oil producer; output is booming. NEW YORK _ U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer.
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NEW YORK, Oct 25- U.S. stocks erased early morning gains and turned negative, weighed down by declines in the materials and telecom sectors. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 21.92 points, or 0.17 percent, to 13,055.42. The Nasdaq Composite Index shed 2.31 points, or 0.08 percent, to 2,979.38.
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*Dominion to shut Kewaunee reactor in Wisconsin next year. On the company's third-quarter earnings call, Dominion said the three plants are the 1,536- megawatt Brayton Point coal, natural gas and oil-fired facility in Massachusetts; the 1,158- MW Kincaid coal plant in Illinois; and the company's stake in the 1,424- MW Elwood gas plant in Illinois.
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PITTSBURGH-- The wheeling and dealing over the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale has hit the pause button. PwC said low natural gas prices were the main factor, not the output or potential of the vast shale gas formation that lies under parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Ohio and Maryland.
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NEW YORK-- Shares of F5 Networks Inc. sank Thursday after the company's forecast for the current quarter disappointed, and the company said the slower economy is weighing on its customers.
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*Q3 EPS, excluding items, $1.29, vs. Oct 25- Celgene Corp's quarterly earnings rose 14 percent, beating expectations on strong sales of its Revlimid cancer treatment and lower costs, but investors were more focused on ongoing studies of its promising new medicines and wider uses for Revlimid. Excluding special items, Celgene earned $1.29 per share.
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Benchmark oil gained 32 cents to finish at $86.05 a barrel in New York. Brent crude added 64 cents to end at $108.49 a barrel in London. Any reading above that could spark a rise in oil to the $87- $88 a barrel level, said Jim Ritterbusch of Ritterbusch and Associates.
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NEW YORK, Oct 25- Microsoft Corp launches its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet in New York Thursday, hoping to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple Inc and Google Inc in mobile computing.
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NEW YORK-- A weak showing in home sales and a mixed batch of earnings reports kept the stock market flipping between minor gains and losses on Wall Street.
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*Lifts full-year profit view by 15 cents to $1.85- $1.95.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 25- U.S. business investment showed signs of stalling in September, an indication that worries over a possible sharp tightening in the federal budget are already weighing on the economy.
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The media company, which publishes its namesake newspaper and the Boston Globe, earned $2.3 million, or 2 cents per share, in the July-September period. In the year-ago quarter, the Times Co. booked a one-time gain of $37.8 million, or 24 cents per share, from the sale of its stake in the Red Sox and other sports holdings.
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HARTFORD, Conn.-- Utilities and governments along the East Coast are working to head off long-term power failures as forecasters predict a major storm to hit a region already skittish after foul weather in recent months that plunged residents into darkness for weeks.
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NEW YORK-- Stressing that there's no need to panic, New York officials are bracing for a gale-force storm expected to hit most of the U.S. East Coast next week. While it's too early for precise forecasts, New York City and New Jersey could get the worst of it. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday noted the uncertainty in the forecasts.
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NEW YORK, Oct 25- Global shares and commodity prices rose on Thursday, pulled from a recent slide by encouraging news from Britain and China and as U.S. data helped lift investors' appetite for risk assets while not flagging any big concerns. Wall Street opened higher, following gains in European equity markets, and the dollar gained slightly against the euro.
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Shares of AutoNation Inc. and Group 1 Automotive Inc. fell sharply Thursday, even as the companies' results met the forecasts of analysts surveyed by FactSet. AutoNation shares dropped $2.11, or 4.4 percent, to $45.93 in afternoon trading. AutoNation's profit of 66 cents per share matched Wall Street estimates, as did Group 1' s bottom line of $1.32 per share.
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*Expects more Windows device sales than Apple, Google products this qtr. Microsoft is doubling down on its bet with its own tablet called the Surface, available only through its own stores and website, which will challenge Apple's iPad head on.
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