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AP Top Business News At 6:14 p.m. EST
Stocks fall for 3rd day as dollar strengthens NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors can't shake their fears that the economy isn't keeping up with the stock market....
D.R. Horton sees 26 perecent spike in 4Q orders Homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc., saw new home orders spike 26 percent from a year ago in the latest quarter as buyers raced to close deals and take advantage of a federal tax credit. But a wider-than-anticipated loss fueled by write-downs sent shares tumbling more than 15 percent Friday....
CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court WASHINGTON (AP) -- Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings....
Americans save more but earn less as rates fall NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money....
Small Florida bank shuttered, 124th this year WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults....
J.M. Smucker 2nd-quarter profit soars on coffee PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- J.M. Smucker Co. nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee gave a jolt to its lineup and lower commodity prices for coffee beans and other items fattened its profit margins....
Wall leads No. 4 Kentucky past Miami, Ohio 72-70 LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky coach John Calipari looked up at the clock after Miami of Ohio tied the fourth-ranked Wildcats with six seconds left and wondered if he should call timeout....
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