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• Stock indexes flip between gains and losses

  By The Associated Press  |  May 21, 2013

  Stock indexes fluctuated in early trading Tuesday as investors tried to predict the Fed's next move.

• Stocks hold close to record levels

  By Steve Rothwell  |  May 20, 2013

  A stock market surge took a pause Monday after investors pushed indexes to record levels last week.

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  Dow hits new milestone

  By Steve Rothwell  |  May 7, 2013

  Just two months after recovering the last of its losses from the financial crisis, the Dow Jones industrial average charged higher Tuesday, closing above 15,000 for the first time.

• FDA wants cancer warnings on tanning beds

  By MATTHEW PERRONE  |  May 6, 2013

  Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.

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  Administration moves to bump up hospital payments

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  April 29, 2013

  Hospitals could see a small pay raise from the U.S. government for treating Medicare patients.

• Slowing health care reform would be welcome, mid-size employers say

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  April 29, 2013

  More mid-size employers say stepping back from health care reform would greatly improve their economic forecasts for the next year, according to a recent study by Deloitte Development L.L.C.

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  Stocks inch higher in early trading on Wall Street

  By The Associated Press  |  April 4, 2013

  Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November.

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  Stocks slide, following European markets lower

  By Matthew Craft  |  March 27, 2013

  Worries about Europe rattled the stock market Wednesday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest gain in three weeks.

• Prudential fined for failed AIG bid

  By Danica Kirka  |  March 27, 2013

  Britain's financial services regulator has fined insurer Prudential PLC 30 million pounds ($45.5 million) and censured its chief executive, over the company's handling of a failed bid to acquire rival the Asian subsidiary of American International Group in 2010

• Feds plan to revise cigarette labels

  By Michael Felberbaum  |  March 19, 2013

  The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.