Rely on markets to fluctuate As we peer into the stock market's current abyss, it may be therapeutic to recall the year leading up to October of 2007 and consider it just an embarrassment of riches.
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Fresh water crisis growing "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water"— Benjamin FranklinThe wisdom of one of our founding fathers, an American renaissance man, has never been more relevant than now with the world and the United States in a crisis of fresh water supplies.
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Google shares drop day after earnings miss expectations Shares of Mountain View-based Google dropped 9.8 percent, the most since its August 2004 initial public offering, to $481.32 at the close Friday. The owner of the most popular Internet search engine reported earnings that missed analysts' estimates for only the fourth time as a public company on a
NEW YORK—Wall Street closed out an impressive week with a mixed performance Friday after disappointing high-tech earnings punctured some of investors' enthusiasm over better-than-expected bank earnings reports.
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