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CNBC's John Harwood reports members of both parties are coming up with their strategies on the debt ceiling; and Gov. Gary Herbert, (R-UT), explains how uncertainty over the debt ceiling is affecting Utah's efforts to balance the budget.
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NEW YORK-- Shares of Myriad Genetics Inc. rose Wednesday after the test maker reported a stronger profit and higher sales in the first quarter and raised its estimates for the full year. THE SPARK: The Salt Lake City company said Tuesday its net income rose 28 percent to $37.9 million, or 46 cents per share.
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LOS ANGELES, May 6- Cool winds and rain helped firefighters mop up the remains of a fast-burning California wildfire on Monday that had threatened 4,000 homes in an early start to an expected busy wildfire season.
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WASHINGTON, May 6- The U.S. Forest Service is acquiring seven advanced firefighting air tankers to help modernize its aging fleet ahead of what is expected to be a bad season for wildfires. The Forest Service has awarded five companies contracts to supply the planes, which dump fire-retardant chemicals on blazes, the agency said on Monday.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed _ a dozen feet long, packed inside the eaves of a cabin in Ogden Valley. "We figure we got 15 pounds of bees out of there," said Bachman, who said that converts to about 60,000 honeybees. Bachman was called to the A-frame cabin last month in Eden, Utah.
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PHOENIX, May 2- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a measure on Thursday that would have made gold and silver legal tender in the state, saying the legislation could have resulted in lost tax revenue.
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PHOENIX, May 2- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a measure on Thursday that would have made gold and silver legal tender in the state, saying the legislation could have resulted in lost tax revenue.
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WASHINGTON, May 2- As they finalize budgets for the next fiscal year, many states are sending a message to the U.S. government about the effects of spending cuts known as sequestration on federally funded projects: You're on your own.
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May 1- Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc:. *Purchases 450- unit apartment community in Salt Lake City. *Says company purchased foothill place for $61.8 million.
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*More crude sailing from US Gulf Coast to Canada. NEW YORK/ LONDON, May 1- Oil traders including commodities giant Trafigura and Australian bank Macquarie have quietly begun shipping U.S. crude oil from Texas to Canada, raising the ire of U.S. East Coast refiners who may pay four times as much for a similar voyage.
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PHOENIX, April 30- The Arizona Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to make gold and silver legal currency in the state, in a response to what backers said was a lack of confidence in the international monetary system.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 29- Two years after closing on roughly $2 billion in new commitments, the venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners is raising more money.
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WASHINGTON, April 29- When it comes to economic growth and business strength, there may be no better U.S. state than Utah, according to a report set to be released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
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April 25- A Utah compound where polygamist sect leader and convicted child rapist Warren Jeffs had planned to live if ever released from a Texas prison was sold on Thursday to his estranged bodyguard at a court-ordered auction, officials said.
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In California the unemployment rate fell to 9.4 percent, the lowest since December 2008 and more than a percentage point below March 2012, when it was 10.7 percent. California and Nevada, two places where housing had flourished, have consistently had some of the highest unemployment rates in the country over the last few years.
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April 19- Unemployment rates dropped in most U.S. states in March from the year before, including California where joblessness fell to a four-year low, as the recovery picked up in places hit hard by the housing downturn.
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The Dow dipped while the S&P 500 edged up on Wednesday as a sharp drop in durable goods orders last month added to worries about slower U.S. economic activity and Apple's results disappointed investors. **BOEING CO, $91.15, up 3.3 pct. **APPLE INC, $401.20, down 1 pct.
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NEW YORK, April 22- New York City took the first step on Monday in outlawing sales of cigarettes to anyone under age 21, in an effort to reduce smoking among the age group in which most smokers take up the habit.
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An early peek this week at how the euro zone economy performed in April could cement the case for the next installment in monetary easing by the world's major central banks.
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*Picture dimming even for export powerhouse Germany. LONDON, April 21- An early peek this week at how the euro zone economy performed in April could cement the case for the next installment in an unprecedented campaign of monetary easing by the world's major central banks.
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April 19- Unemployment rates dropped in most U.S. states in March from the year before, including California where joblessness fell to a four-year low, as the recovery picked up in places hit hard by the housing downturn.