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<title>Black Friday spending edges up; online sales soar</title>
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<description>CHICAGO -- Shoppers who endured long lines and sometimes-frigid temperatures spent only slightly more during their Black Friday shopping sprees...</description>
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<title>Gasoline prices up for holidays across the U.S.</title>
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<description>Gasoline prices dipped slightly as the Thanksgiving travel season began, but are still significantly higher than they were a year ago and are...</description>
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<title>Retailers tweeting for holiday black ink</title>
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<description>Need a holiday gift? There's an app for that.</description>
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<title>Dubai crisis rattles markets</title>
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<description>NEW YORK -- Dubai's debt crisis raised concerns Friday that some banks could further tighten lending and stall the global economic...</description>
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<title>France finishes EADS probe</title>
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<description>PARIS -- French stock market regulators closed a week of hearings on Friday with 17 current and former executives of Airbus parent company EADS...</description>
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<title>Health bill reform won't affect veterans' benefits</title>
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<description>The national health reform bill passed by the House last month and the Senate version to be debated in early December pose no threat to health care...</description>
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