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AP Business Headlines
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so....
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's the narcissist rally....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: soccer....
      
Wall Street Journal Headlines
Yahoo's board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.
The Obama administration cleared the way for broader natural-gas exports by approving a $10 billion facility in Texas, a milestone in the U.S. transition into a major supplier of energy for world markets.
General Motors shares eclipsed their $33 IPO price, fueled in part by enthusiasm over the company's new vehicles.
A natural-gas trade group is planning a campaign to show compressed natural gas can be an effective fuel for passenger cars to encourage wider use of the fuel in transportation.
J.C. Penney plans to beef up its audits of factories in Bangladesh by requiring them for the first time to undergo structural and engineering inspections.
      
CNNMoney Headlines
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The Yahoo board reportedly has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr.
There is a good case for Yahoo to buy Tumblr. But there's a better case for it not to.
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NY Times Business Headlines
In an address to graduates at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, the Fed chairman says nothing about his day job, but he sketches a world in which competition to produce innovations yields ever-greater rewards.
    


Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices.
    


BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions about companies in which it has stakes.
    


A document due Monday is the latest of three studies by the British government meant to sway opinion in Scotland ahead of a planned referendum next year on independence.
    


Awash in hits, but not in profits, a proud Hollywood studio has suddenly found itself in the cross hairs of an activist investor who wants to spin it off from Sony.
    


      
USA Today Business Headlines
Farmers sometimes face problems because they fail to plan for future of their operations
Saving for college: IRA, 529 or life insurance?
Board of directors has approved $1.1 billion cash purchase, Wall Street Journal reports.
He plans to advocate to the Senate "dramatic simplification" of corporate tax laws
The most important part of your presentation happens immediately afterward, workplace columnist Anita Bruzzese says.
      
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