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Valuations for U.S. equities have been stuck below the five-decade average for the longest period since Richard Nixon

The new man at the top of struggling Research In Motion Ltd. says his priority is to reinvigorate marketing and restore growth in the U.S., adding that he has no intention of allowing the iconic BlackBerry maker to be broken apart and sold in pieces.

Think your programming skills are world class? Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge.
"Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook," the company said in a blog post announcing this year’s competition. "Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, […]

Yemen’s outgoing president decided to stay in the country, reversing plans to leave, his ruling party said Saturday, in an apparent attempt to salvage his control over the regime, which has appeared to unravel in the face of internal revolts and relentless street protests.
In a sign of the fraying, the son and nephew of President […]

Delta Air Lines Inc. is boosting its flying out of New York’s LaGuardia airport, adding routes that target American Airlines and put it in a better position to compete against United.
Delta says the additions make it the biggest airline between the New York area and cities in the U.S. That should help it grab more […]

China’s attempts to deflate its property bubble come at a perilous time.
Fears that the euro might collapse, unleashing a tsunami of financial and economic disruptions around the globe, have added urgency to concerns that China’s campaign to cool overheated housing prices may go too far.
As economic growth wanes, Beijing has begun easing tight credit policies […]

The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, suddenly dropped in November, driven in part by small businesses that finally see reason to hope and hire.
Economists said there was a long way to go but liked what they saw.
The rate fell to 8.6 […]

The leaders of France and Germany will meet next week and plan to push for fundamental changes to the European treaty governing the currency shared by 17 nations, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.
Sarkozy said in a speech in the southern port city of Toulon that during their meeting in Paris on Monday he and German […]

Thailand’s former premier says his successor needs to give up her party’s pet projects to free up money for flood recovery.
Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose party lost to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s party this summer, says some campaign promises the government made must be sacrificed.
Abhisit spoke at a parliament session where Yingluck submitted a budget bill calling […]

Phil Rideout figures he has as much right to the Rally Squirrel as anyone else.
So the owner of a Fenton-based sports memorabilia business recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to obtain the registered trademark on “Rally Squirrel.”
But he’s not the only one vying to claim the furry rodent.
Sean Sullivan, an […]