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at 16:42 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Financials led the way to a modest gain on the Toronto stock market Friday as investors felt more confident about bank stocks following good news from Citigroup and energy stocks lent some support even as oil prices continued to retreat.
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at 17:37 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
NEW YORK - Prices at the pump in the United States pulled back from record highs Friday as another slide in oil capped crude's biggest one-week drop in more than three years.
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at 18:53 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
NEW YORK - Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss that was smaller than expected.
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at 19:24 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
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at 17:13 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
ROMULUS, Mich. - At a General Motors Corp. factory just west of Detroit, about 1,000 workers are still cranking out mighty-but-thirsty V-8 engines that go into pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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at 15:52 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
MILAN, Italy - It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.
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at 8:19 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
SEOUL, South Korea - About 35,000 workers at Hyundai Motor Co. staged a half-day strike Friday calling for raises and better working conditions, the latest in a series of work stoppages.
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at 8:21 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
BEIJING - Chinese oil giant Sinopec says its first-half profit will fall more than 50 per cent from the same period last year due to government controls that limit its ability to pass on record high crude costs to consumers.
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at 10:27 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - A Statistics Canada report says household spending offset declines in new orders for manufactured goods and the housing index to leave the composite leading index unchanged in June.
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at 14:44 on July 18, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Canadian pension plans finally got a reprieve in the second quarter as soaring energy and material group stocks pushed investment returns into positive territory after three consecutive negative quarters, a survey released Friday shows.
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