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  • The Marketplace Daily Pulse is beating faster today thanks to all the profit raining down from American's central banking system, the Federal…

  • Riskiest restaurant stocks, based on Prof Ed Altman's Altman-Z score
    The Street.com

    Riskiest restaurant stocks, based on Prof Ed Altman's Altman-Z score source: The Street.com There's nothing like an ice cream to boost your mor…

  • A woman walks past a Bank of America branch in the Financial District in Chicago, Ill.
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    Five bucks a month. That's what you'll be paying for a Bank of America debit card starting next year.

  • Murders & acquisitions — traders are psycho: study

    It's something that all of us, even traders themselves, have suspected — traders are even more psycho than the average psycho!…

  • Financial professionals sit in the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange watch a television showing market news in New York City.
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    Goldman Sachs announced several months ago that it would make deep cuts in its operations to save as much as $1.2 billion. Today we heard those c…

  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City.
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    Commodities priced jumped today, after prices fell to a ten-moth low last week. Sugar spun up to its highest price in more than a month. Aluminum rose, and coffee perked up, too.

  • 12-month average cost for self-serve regular.
    AAA

    12-month average cost for self-serve regular. source: AAA The American Petroleum Institute says Americans consumed less gasoline in August than …

  • A FedEx worker steps out of his delivery truck in San Francisco, Calif.
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    FedEx is not feeling good about the economy. The company's CEO, Fred Smith said today that he thinks we're in for a sluggish growth period for some time to come. That's depressing the Marketplace Daily Pulse today.

  • Plastic fantastic – credit card solicitations rocket

    Credit card solicitations are double what they were last year. Business Insider got its hands on a research report by Credit Suisse, which says…

  • A USA Today study on airline fees says the fees airlines are charging for overweight bags and regular check-in luggage are the highest they've ever been. The news that one airline is even charging for cabin baggage threatened to give the Marketplace Daily Pulse a cardiac arrest today.

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