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European Union finance ministers are debating a tax on financial transactions that would raise money for the EU and make banks share bailout burdens with taxpayers.
The tax would take a tiny fraction from a wide range of financial dealings and use the money to relieve member states’ membership contributions to the EU.
France and Germany support […]

The head of the International Monetary Fund called Thursday for bold and collective action to combat a slowing global economy and a worsening European debt crisis.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde also said she welcomed President Barack Obama’s U.S. job-creation plan in light of the unemployment crisis in the United States.
Lagarde will preside at her first […]

Oak trees and sparkling waterfalls have replaced the shards and smoke and bodies. Ten years after the attacks that changed American life, the World Trade Center site is a memorial, and the need to mourn is being eclipsed by the need to honor the memories of the nearly 3,000 people killed.
Children of those lost, some […]

President Barack Obama and his family are enjoying a vacation day at the beach on Martha’s Vineyard.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha were spending part of Sunday at a private beach in Edgartown, Mass.
It’s the first vacation outing by the Obamas since the family arrived on the island resort to begin a […]

As students troop off to college this fall, parents with children of all ages have their heads spinning from a volatile investment year of troubling world and national events.
That makes it the perfect time for them to get their heads on straight. Early, regular investment in their children’s future, made just like a car or […]

Concerns over the U.S. economy and Europe

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The information minister of Libya’s rebel movement says its forces have overrun the base of a rival faction after five hours of fighting.
Mahmoud Shamam says the clashes broke out around 3 a.m. Sunday and left four rebels dead and six wounded. The main rebel force was now in control of the al-Nidaa Brigade’s base on […]

For long-suffering shareholders of News Corp., there may be a silver lining in the phone-hacking scandal: A chastened Rupert Murdoch.
A sort of real-life Citizen Kane, the 80-year-old CEO has amassed dozens of newspapers and TV businesses around the world. To politicians and pundits, the power of his media holdings elicits a mix of awe and […]

 
Rank Company Employees
1 Emerson 127,700
2 Monsanto Co. 21,400
3 Energizer Holdings Inc. 21,101
4 Amdocs Ltd. 19,455
5 Charter Communications Inc. 16,600
6 Panera Bread Co. 15,900
7 Viasystems Group Inc. 14,842
8 Express Scripts Inc. 13,170
9 Brown Shoe Co. 12,100
10 Ralcorp Holdings Inc. 10,800
Based on fiscal year 2010, except for Brown, which uses data for fiscal year 2011
SOURCE: Bloomberg
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