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Stocks on a roll: Yahoo, Microsoft stoke appetite
This week will be chock-full of company news and announcements to fuel investors' appetites to buy or sell stocks. Tuesday is judgment day for JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon.
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion  Wall Street Journal
Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling  Forbes
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Facebook stock stagnant as social network seeks to become advertising giant
NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola.
The Facebook IPO, One Year Later  Wall Street Journal
One year after IPO, Facebook employees give CEO high marks, downgrade top ...  San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
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Consumer Sentiment Index in U.S. Rose to 83.7 in May from 76.4
Americans' confidence in the economy climbed in May to the highest level in almost six years as rising real estate values and record stock prices boosted household wealth.
Consumer sentiment perks to post-recession peak  MarketWatch
Consumer Sentiment Hits Nearly 6-Year High  Wall Street Journal
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Will American's New Boarding Process Work? It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes ...
American Airlines Doesn't Want Your Bags in the Cabin  Businessweek
US airline group sees pickup in summer air passengers  Reuters
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Coast Guard to Take Testimony on Shell...
The Coast Guard will kick off hearings Monday on how a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge used for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling ended up aground off a remote Alaska island.
Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding  San Jose Mercury News
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How JC Penney Can Stem The Tide Of Slumping Sales
Yesterday, J.C. Penney announced a serious first quarter loss of $348 million, or $1.58 per share and a revenue slump of 16.4% to $2.635 billion as same store sales dropped 16.6%.
Where Did All Those JC Penney Customers Go?  Wall Street Journal
J.C. Penney First-Quarter Net Loss Widens After Johnson Leaves  Bloomberg
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Accenture buying Acquity for $316 million
Global consulting firm Accenture has agreed to buy digital marketing company Acquity Group for $316 million, the companies announced Friday.
US HOT STOCKS: Acquity Group Active in Late Trading  Wall Street Journal
Accenture says it will buy Acquity Group for $316M  Businessweek
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Mervyn King warns against 'demonising individuals' over banking failures
The outgoing Governor of the Bank of England warned against blaming individual bankers and said the banking sector was given "too much status and standing in society.
Bank of England's King sends message to successor Carney  Reuters
Sir Mervyn King: don't demonise bankers  The Guardian
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US Approves Expanded Gas Exports
The Obama administration on Friday cleared the way for broader natural-gas exports by approving a $10 billion facility in Texas, a milestone in the U.S.
US nod for Texas natural gas exports signals new era  BDlive
3 Foreign Companies Invest in US Project to Export Liquid Gas  New York Times
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Lawyer confirms she asked planted question that broke open IRS scandal
The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers' conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News.
Planted question gambit backfires on IRS officials  USA TODAY
Question to IRS Official Was Planted  Wall Street Journal
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