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Fannie Mae common shares and preferred shares are really only worth the trade because the company is under government control and may not operate on its own.
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Despite the sequester—the huge cutbacks in government spending—some high level Federal executives are scheduled to get millions of dollars bonuses, unless a law is passed.
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Top Internal Revenue Service officials told Congress on Tuesday they were unaware of the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny until recently.
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A nascent recovery in the housing market helped Home Depot report higher quarterly sales and earnings on Tuesday.
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Thanks to the brightening employment picture and an uptick in the housing market, Americans are packing up and relocating. And the pace is likely to pick up this summer.
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As investors and analysts size up Yahoo's latest $1.1 billion acquisition, it is worth reflecting on the GeoCities deal, which has many similarities, the NYT reports.
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A proposal to cleave the roles of chairman and CEO at banking giant JPMorgan Chase was defeated in a narrow shareholder vote on Tuesday.
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The White House said its counsel was told on April 24 about the preliminary findings of an IRS audit that showed IRS employees targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
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A day before Apple CEO Tim Cook heads to Washington, the Senate released a report that showed Apple used an unusual global tax structure to pay little or no taxes.
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With the $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo is putting a serious claim in for the future of social and mobile technology. The deal will be a test for Marissa Mayer.
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Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said the Fed has the appropriate level of monetary accommodation in place to let the reach "escape velocity" next year.
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Settlement talks between Steve Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital and the government have broken down, according to sources.
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Fannie Mae common shares and preferred shares are really only worth the trade because the company is under government control and may not operate on its own.
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Forecasters are warning additional "large and devastating" tornadoes are possible today, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.
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Apple's CEO is disputing assertions that the company evades billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.
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Rescuers desperately search for survivors in the rubble of flattened communities a day after a 2-mile-wide tornado carved a path of destruction in Oklahoma.
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With news that authorities seized assets of the world's largest bitcoin exchange, traders and other people interested in the digital currency are looking nervously at the future.
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Millions of Americans have walked away from GM, Ford and Chrysler because of quality, reliability and service problems. But times are changing in Detroit.
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Rival online takeout services Seamless North America and GrubHub will combine and create a company covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 U.S. cities.
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Prices are just stabilizing in South Carolina, but in Long Island's Hamptons, home prices are roaring back and rentals are fully booked for the season.
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Easy monetary policy by the Federal Reserve and other central banks is limiting supply of stocks, as well as fueling asset bubbles, one analyst warned on Monday.
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CNBC's Courtney Reagan looks at yesterday's EF-4 tornado near Oklahoma City and the impact it's likely to have on insurance companies and the local economy. Yahoo! Finance's Lauren Lyster and Paul Walsh, The Weather Channel, discuss the tornado forecast and why the weather has been so volatile in the last year.
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Microsoft announced its latest gaming system called Xbox One, reports CNBC's Julia Boorstin.
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Bargain hunters are returning to the metals, reports CNBC's Sharon Epperson.