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The nation’s most dangerous job, fishing for Alaskan king crab, has not only gotten safer but it’s gotten more profitable, too.
Commercial fishing has long topped the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ list of jobs with the most fatalities — and crabbing in the Alaskan waters is by far the most lethal form of fishing. […]

New-home sales flopped in June, an indication that the housing market may take longer than expected to recover.
Sales of new homes fell to an annual pace of 350,000, down 8.4% from May when sales hit a two-year high, according to the Census Bureau report issued Wednesday.

The modest sales pace is a far cry […]

For years, U.S. manufacturers worried about business being sent overseas. Now, as signs point to a resurgence of American-made goods, a new fear is emerging: that there won’t be enough skilled workers to keep up with demand.
Factory owners like Tony Singh, who manufactures high-end women’s apparel at Four Seasons Fashion Manufacturing in New York’s […]

Viacom and DirecTV announced Friday that they have reached a deal, putting aside their dispute and allowing Viacom’s programming to immediately return to the airwaves.
The agreement ends a fee dispute that had interrupted programming since July 10.

Viacom blacked out channels for 20 million customers of DirecTV (, Fortune 500). Among the channels affected […]

The rice harvest in India, the world

As orders from food makers have picked up during the past year, Create-A-Pack Foods Inc. turned to a staffing company, Kelly Services Inc. (KELYA), to add about 100 workers.
Hiring on a temporary basis saves money if an employee doesn

Companies are growing more pessimistic about the U.S. economy this year and plan to limit hiring as the European debt crisis hurts sales and concern rises over the looming so-called fiscal cliff, a survey showed.
Some 62 percent of businesses project no change in employment over the next six months, according results of a National […]

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Russia refrained from cutting interest rates for a seventh month as faster inflation since May keeps policy makers from joining emerging-market peers in easing borrowing costs.
Bank Rossii kept the refinancing rate at 8 percent, a quarter-point above the record low, policy makers said in a statement after meeting today. That was in line with […]

The yen rose to the strongest level in almost six weeks against the euro as signs global growth is slowing underpinned demand for the relative safety of the Japanese currency.
The dollar appreciated versus all except one of its 16 major counterparts after South Korea unexpectedly cut interest rates and European and Asian stocks declined. […]