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Offshore oil drilling: An early jump in Florida(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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G-8: Global warming and oil top agenda(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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Gas prices hold in record territory(CNN) The high cost of gas is one thing Americans won't be celebrating this holiday weekend.

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Gas prices scale record $4.10 a gallon(CNN) The high cost of gas is one thing Americans won't be celebrating on July 4.

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Oil retreats from all-time high(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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Why Microsoft will win Yahoo(CNN) In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion.

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Crude nears $146 as supplies get tighter(CNN) Crude prices surged Thursday to a new trading record near $146 a barrel as the summer maintenance season for the North Sea oil fields begins to squeeze European supplies.

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Utah goes to 4-day workweek to save energy(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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Subsidies boost food prices - WTO(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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Ex-Refco CEO gets 16 years(CNN) Read full story for latest details.

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The art of the hire(CNN) Anne Messenger's hair stood on end as she read her former administrative assistant's Facebook profile. The picture showed the woman in a sultry pose, smoking a cigarette. Her main interests? Men and drinking. Yet in her interview, the candidate had seemed personable and energetic. The position included bookkeeping and her math skills were a little subpar, but she could brush them up on the job, right?

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Environmental support dips vs. economy - poll(CNN) With the U.S. economy mired in a slump, Americans still believe saving the environment is more important than fixing the economy, according to a new poll released Thursday. But consumers are more closely divided on the issue than they have been in the past.

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Fireworks for the dollar(CNN) It's appropriate, as we head into a long holiday weekend to celebrate America's independence, that the dollar rallied a bit Thursday.

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American Airlines to cut 8% of staff(CNN) American Airlines said on Thursday that it plans to cut nearly 7,000 full-time employees, or 8% of its total staff, by the end of 2008.

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Treasurys mixed on jobs, service sector(CNN) Bond prices were up and down Thursday after the government's June payroll report came in largely as expected, allaying some fears about the health of the economy, but a survey showing weakness in the service sector tempered gains.

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Mortgage rates drop, snapping a 3-week climb(CNN) Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages fell for the first time in three weeks after the Federal Reserve said last week that it expects inflation to level off, according to mortgage backer Freddie Mac.

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Lose weight or else!(CNN) The employees of Lincoln Industries are all physically fit. Marc LeBaron demands it.

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